Russian attacks killed four people in Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv await the arrival of U.S. envoys to begin a new push for peace

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 72-hour pause in strikes on Kyiv, the Kremlin said Saturday, as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said that Mr Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, will visit both Russia and Ukraine this weekend to discuss proposals to end the war. Mr Zelensky said he hoped to make the talks “as constructive and substantive as possible”.

The Trump administration is trying to revive peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. This weekend, White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are traveling to Moscow and Kyiv to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance acknowledged in recent days that they don’t know when the Iran war will end, as Americans sour on the conflict and high gas prices.

Chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reports from Tel Aviv on the developing tensions and military responses in the region.

Donald Trump has framed the Iran conflict as a “relatively little war” for the United States while accusing his predecessor of giving Ukraine about $300 billion in weapons for free, claiming Ukraine would have to pay through European NATO members.

The US military says it has hit three Iran-linked oil tankers after ballistic missiles were launched towards two of its warships in the region. US Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday it had "permanently disabled" a tanker near Kharg Island and another near the Strait of Hormuz,

At least two people were pulled out alive from inside a hydropower project nine days after Nepal’s deadly floods.

Kathmandu report on Nepal flood victims, missing people and demands for climate justice. The world's largest living lizard can reach more than 10 feet long, carry 60 curved razor-sharp teeth and attack prey 10 to 20 times its own size.

Nepal tunnel rescue gives hope to waiting families

Sheltering with relatives or in temporary camps, survivors of devastating floods in Nepal say they can no longer rebuild their homes after the landscape was violently transformed, leaving them

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for world maps to more accurately reflect the relative size of Africa and other regions, over the objections of the US.

The United Nations on ⁠Friday ⁠voted for a shift away from ⁠the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurately reflecting countries' true ​size, a resolution sponsored by African states to counter perceptions that the continent is peripheral.

The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed a world map that depicts the size of Africa more accurately than the map most commonly used now.

The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union (AU) members,

We’re going to build new mines, new processing facilities.’” Although Trump keeps insisting otherwise, the U.S. relies heavily on Canadian resources. Canada supplied more than 80 percent of U.S. electricity imports in 2025,

US president appears willing to risk jeopardising midterm election in his desire to ‘vassalise’ America’s northern neighbour

Most Americans don’t seem to want a trade war with Canada. A recent Ipsos-Reuters poll shows the tariffs are unpopular in the United States, and they’re not rushing to call Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ either.

President Trump on Wednesday touted a last-minute breakthrough in trade talks with Canada before new 50 percent tariffs were set to take effect this week, claiming there are no longer any tariffs for U.

South Korea is considering combat, noncombat and search roles in the Strait of Hormuz but says any contribution must protect Peninsula readiness.

South Korea is reviewing a possible military deployment to the Strait of Hormuz, as the country comes under pressure from Donald Trump’s White House to contribute to security in the Middle East. South Korea ’s presidential Blue House said it was considering various options including dispatching a warship to the strait.

Seoul heavily affected by closure of strategic waterway and under heavy US pressure for participation against Iran.

South Korea is considering deploying military assets to the Strait of Hormuz as it faces growing pressure from the US to do more in the Middle East. An official said such reports were “different from the facts” and pointed out that any deployment would need to take into account domestic legal requirements,