Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies say they uncovered a major bribery scheme involving inflated military procurement contracts, just two days after lawmakers restored the agencies’ independence following a public outcry.

The Smithsonian says the White House did not pressure it to remove references to President Donald Trump's impeachments from an exhibit.

The Smithsonian Institution has removed a reference to President Donald Trump's impeachments from an exhibit.

Kyiv is observing a day of mourning after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and injured over 150.

Ukraine’s Parliament has approved a bill tabled by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that restores the independence of two of the country’s key anti-corruption watchdogs.

Authorities in Ukraine said a Russian drone and missile attack on the capital, Kyiv, killed at least 13 people, including a 6-year-old boy.

Authorities say Russian missiles have hit a Ukrainian army training ground and killed three soldiers as Ukraine struggles to make up a severe manpower shortage in the three-year war.

Officials say Russian glide bombs and ballistic missiles have struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility as Russia’s relentless strikes on civilian areas killed at least 27 people across the country.

The United States cutting short Gaza ceasefire talks this week plunges one of President Donald Trump’s pushes to solve global conflicts into new uncertainty.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces are holding back a concerted summer push by Russia’s bigger army to break through defenses along parts of the front line.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a new bill restoring the independence of the country’s anti-corruption agencies.

Ukrainians are taking to the streets to protest a new law they worry will undermine the work of two key anti-corruption agencies.

Ukrainian activists are calling for more protests of a law they say weakens the country’s anti-corruption bodies.

Thousands of Ukrainians have protested in Kyiv and other cities, urging President Zelenskyy to veto a controversial anti-corruption bill.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has renewed his offer to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war.

The long-range Russian drones come in swarms each night, buzzing over Ukraine by the hundreds, terrorizing the population and attacking targets from the industrial east to areas near its western border with Poland.

Russia has launched one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine in months, targeting Kyiv overnight into Monday.

Russia says it's open to peace with Ukraine but insists achieving its goals remains a priority.

Russia has launched a massive overnight drone and missile attack on Ukraine, killing at least one person.

The European Union is targeting Russia with more sanctions over its war on Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine's new government plans to boost domestic arms production to meet half its military’s needs within six months.

Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country’s deal with the U.S. to partner on the development of minerals.

Russia has launched overnight attacks on four Ukrainian cities, injuring at least 15 people and targeting energy infrastructure.

Ukraine’s prime minister has announced his resignation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed gratitude for U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to send more weapons to Ukraine, particularly Patriot air defense missile systems.

Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers as “Gorky Park,” has died at age 82.

President Donald Trump has announced new measures targeting Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine, threatening steep tariffs if a peace deal isn't reached within 50 days.

President Donald Trump says the United States is selling weapons to its NATO allies in Europe so they can provide them to Ukraine as it struggles to fend off a recent escalation in Russia’s drone and missile attacks.

Countries prepared to provide troops for a future stabilization force in Ukraine have agreed to set up a headquarters in Paris to facilitate a rapid deployment after the war ends.

European leaders are urging private business and equity funds to not be afraid to invest in rebuilding Ukraine now even as Russia accelerates its war.

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered damning judgments against Russia.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight.

Europe’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands accusing Moscow of atrocities in Ukraine dating back more than a decade.

French President Emmanuel Macron praised his country's ties with Britain on the first day of a state visit.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv.

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged drone strikes, disrupting air travel and causing fatalities and damage.

Ukraine says it struck a Russian air base, targeting a depot and aircraft while Russia launched over 300 drones into Ukraine overnight.

Russia launched 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine overnight in the largest aerial assault since the war began.

Ukrainian authorities are enlisting European help to increase domestic military production as the United States pauses some weapons shipments to Ukraine.

A rift has developed between Russia and Azerbaijan, which have had long political, economic and cultural ties.

Ukraine is moving forward with plans for joint weapons production with allies, while the U.S. halts some arms shipments it had promised to help Kyiv fight off Russia’s invasion.

Officials say a Ukrainian drone has struck an industrial plant deep inside Russia, injuring several people and causing a fire.

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region says that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it.

World leaders are adapting strategies to manage U.S. President Donald Trump during his second term.

European Union leaders are calling for greater efforts to help meet Ukraine’s pressing military needs.

NATO’s summit in the Netherlands has been described as “transformational” and “historic.”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally approved plans to establish a new international court to prosecute senior Russian officials for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

President Donald Trump is suggesting that a commitment by NATO members to spend more on defense could help prevent future Russian aggression against its neighbors.

U.S. President Donald Trump has wrapped his participation in the annual NATO summit, a gathering far chummier than the tense meetings of his first term.

Officials say Russian drones, missiles and artillery have killed at least 26 civilians and injured more than 200 others in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is praising U.S. President Donald Trump for making Europe “pay in a BIG way” on defense.

President Donald Trump injected some some uncertainty over whether the U.S. would abide by the mutual defense guarantees outlined in the NATO treaty as he headed to its summit.

Officials say Russian drones and missiles have killed at least 14 civilians in Ukraine, with nine deaths reported in the capital, Kyiv.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his NATO counterparts are meeting at what might be a historic summit.

At summits after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, NATO welcomed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with open arms.

Ukraine's president says Russia repatriated at least 20 of its own dead soldiers in recent exchanges with Ukraine, describing it as a result of Moscow’s disorganization.

Authorities say Russian drones have slammed into two Ukrainian cities, killing at least one person in nighttime attacks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging greater international pressure on Moscow.

Emergency workers have pulled more bodies from the rubble of a nine-story Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian missile.

For Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the bilateral meetings scheduled on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Canada were even more important than the summit itself.

Six of the Group of Seven leaders discussed Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Iran conflict but failed to reach major agreements on those and many other top issues — wrapping up a summit that was forced to try and show how the wealthy nations’ club might still shape global policy despite the early departure of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Officials say a Russian missile and drone bombardment has killed at least 15 people and injured 156 others in Ukraine overnight, with the main barrage demolishing a nine-story apartment building in Kyiv.

U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting that Russia and maybe even China should be part of what is now called the Group of Seven.

President Donald Trump will depart the G7 summit in Canada to Washington on Monday night, a day earlier than planned, due to the intensifying conflict between Israel and Iran.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has drawn pledges of non-military help from Austria.

President Donald Trump is abruptly leaving the Group of Seven summit, departing a day early Monday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and the U_S_ leader has declared that Tehran should be evacuated “immediately.”.

Leaders of some of the world’s biggest economic powers arrive in the Canadian Rockies for a Group of Seven summit that's been shadowed by an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unresolved trade war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rising global oil prices following Israeli strikes on Iran will strengthen Russia by increasing its oil revenues, aiding its war effort in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump has long bet that he can scare allies into submission.

Ukraine says Russia’s military losses have topped 1 million, noting the huge price Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion.

Russian forces have launched a large-scale drone assault across Ukraine, where officials said three people were killed and 64 others wounded.

Ukrainian officials say three people were killed and 13 were wounded when Russia attacked the country with waves of drones and missiles.

The Ukrainian air force says Russia launched 479 drones at the country in the war’s biggest overnight drone bombardment.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he found President Donald Trump open to discussion and is convinced that Washington remains committed to the NATO alliance.

Ukraine said its “Operation Spiderweb” attacked Russian warplanes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing drones that each cost under $1,000 and were launched from wooden containers carried on trucks.

Ukrainian officials say at least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed in a Russian drone strike on a northern Ukrainian overnight.

President Donald Trump says it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the Russian leader told him “very strongly” that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.

Russia took weeks to present Ukraine with a “memorandum” setting out its conditions for a ceasefire, as well as key guidelines for a comprehensive treaty to end the 3-year-old war.

A Russian rocket attack targeted the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing at least four people and wounding 25.

Poland has elected Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist conservative, as its next president — a win that signals a turn to the right in one of the European Union's member states.

Two U.S. senators are warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling on peace while preparing a fresh military offensive against Ukraine.

A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed more than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia’s territory, Ukraine’s Security Service said Sunday, while Moscow pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones just hours before a new round of direct peace talks in Istanbul.

By making harsh, uncompromising demands in peace talks with Ukraine while continuing to pummel it with waves of missiles and drones, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a clear message: He will only accept a settlement on his terms and will keep fighting until they’re met.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington next week to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, with the war in Ukraine and trade tensions among the items on the agenda.

Russia’s drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have killed at least two people, including a 9-year-old girl.

A Ukraine presidential adviser says Ukraine is ready to resume direct peace talks with Russia in Istanbul on Monday but insists that the Kremlin provide a promised memorandum setting out its position on ending the war.

Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog have not seen signs of Russia moving to immediately restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Three open coffins, one adult-sized, one medium and one child-sized, lay inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture in a northern Ukrainian city.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missile systems that would be free of any Western-imposed limitations on their range and targets.

More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died in Russian prisons since Moscow's full-scale invasion three years ago.

A Ukrainian official says that Russia has launched its biggest drone attack against Ukraine overnight.

President Donald Trump is making clear he is losing patience with Vladimir Putin, leveling some of his sharpest criticism at the Russian leader as Moscow pounds Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles for a third straight night.

Russia and Ukraine have swapped hundreds more prisoners of war, the third and last part of a major swap and a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire.

Russia and Ukraine began a major prisoner exchange, swapping hundreds of soldiers and civilians in the first phase of an exchange that was a moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire in the 3-year-old war.

It may start as a casual aside, a wee-hours social media post or a much hyped announcement.

A Kremlin spokesman says Russia and Ukraine have no scheduled direct peace talks.

The sentiment in South Africa ahead of its leader’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House was one of trepidation.

President Donald Trump has used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with baseless claims of the systematic killing of white farmers in that country.

U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa’s leader at the White House for a meeting that might be tense.