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In November 2023, Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the war had reached a stalemate after Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive. Due to strategic tensions between the president and his top ...

Americans are cheering for the new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, whose name is Robert Francis Prevost.

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P olitical figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

Russia and Ukraine have both reported attacks on their forces on the first day of a 72-hour ceasefire called by President Vladimir Putin.

Trump also repeated his claim that the war would “never have happened” if he were president in 2022, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, and blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden. open image in ...

The Kremlin has declared a 72-hour ceasefire in Ukraine next week as Russia marks Victory Day in World War II.

C hurch bells tolled across Rome, and tributes have been pouring in from around the world after the Vatican on Monday ...

U.S.-brokered peace talks have taken a back seat to the global reaction to Trump’s tariff policies in recent days. Trump boasted throughout his campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine ...

Russian forces invaded Ukraine in late February 2022, turning Moscow into a global pariah in the worlds ... refugee crisis in Europe since World War II - a “special military operation”.