Russia’s main Kremlin party, United Russia, was dominating the country’s first wartime parliamentary election, according to early returns released Monday from a tightly controlled election virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s policies.

Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse​ were awaiting extradition to the U.S. on Sunday.

The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.

Mike Waltz said the U.S. naval blockade was having the intended effect of pressuring Iran's economy, but Tehran has said it is not backing down.

The gunman opened fire from his vehicle at Israelis gathered at a spring near the settlement of ​Neve Tzuf, near Ramallah, according to the Israeli military and ​police.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday he will meet with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in New York this week as Trump seeks a peace deal.

Many of the children recruited by Russia are impoverished and are lured into betraying Ukraine with relatively small offers of money, the authorities said. After torching the railway equipment, Suzanskyi got a bigger offer involving an explosive,

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz​ acknowledged that the result was a "disaster" but said he would still move ahead with his government's reform agenda.