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North Korea has called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “a guy with a trash-like brain” and “a diplomatic idiot” as it blasted him for using a U.N. speech to issue a warning over the North’s deepening military ties with Russia.

Air alerts sounded again and again in Kyiv and residents headed to shelters early Thursday morning, as a massive Russian attack on at least four cities started fires and injured at least 14 people in east and central Ukraine.

A former federal prosecutor who helped investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe said Wednesday she left the team because of concerns with then-Attorney General William Barr’s public comments about the case and because she strongly disagreed with a draft of an interim report he considered releasing before the election.

Gershkovich will remain jailed at least until Nov. 30, unless his appeal is heard in the meantime and he is released.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday. “We will continue to stand with the brave people of Ukraine,” Biden said.

North Korean state media says leader Kim Jong Un held discussions with Russia’s defense minister on strengthening “strategic and tactical coordination” between the countries’ militaries, as Kim continued a visit to Russia’s Far East that has raised concerns about an arms alliance that would fuel Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected on Capitol Hill and at the White House next week.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed support for Russia’s “sacred fight” during a summit with President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. warned could lead to a deal to supply ammunition for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been acquitted of a final tax evasion charge though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine president used to muzzle her critical reporting.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia ahead of an expected meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Russia and North Korea say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia, where he is expected to hold a highly anticipated meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

After a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine, Russia needs to replenish its supplies of ammunition for what could be a long war of attrition.

A Russian missile attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown has killed one policeman and wounded at least 73 people, including nine policemen. It was among multiple Russian attacks across the country on Friday. Officials say 10 buildings were damaged in the attack on Kryvyi Rih. Ukraine’s minister of Internal Affairs says three people pulled out of the rubble are...

A Kremlin spokesman says the U.S. decision to supply depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine is “very bad news.”

A federal judge in Boston has sentenced a wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million insider trading scheme that relied on stolen company earnings information hacked through U.S. computer networks.

At least 17 people were killed and dozens more civilians wounded when Russian shelling struck a market in a city in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday.

The Russian missile that struck in eastern Ukraine turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burned bodies scattered across the ground. The blast Wednesday in the town of Kostiantynivka killed 17 people and wounded at least 32 in one Russia’s deadliest strikes in months. Images taken by Associated...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that defense minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced this week with Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar lawmaker.

Pope Francis has arrived in Mongolia to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities.

Drones hit an airport in the western Pskov region and started a massive fire there, the governor and local media reported