Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is sounding the alarm over what he calls Russian President Vladimir Putin’s desire to foment conflict in the troubled Balkans region.The Ukrainian president warned Putin is looking to distract from Russia’s failed military efforts in Ukraine by stoking tensions in a region of Europe where Russian…

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released video on Friday showing what it says is a stash of mortar bombs hidden in the vicinity of a kindergarten classroom.The short video shows a damaged kindergarten classroom and then pans into a small storage area, revealing a pile of mortar shells.An IDF spokesman said the…

City officials in the birthplace of Jesus Christ are tearing down Christmas decorations in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s continued invasion of Gaza.Bethlehem, an ancient city located in the West Bank, declared via social media and official spokespeople that decorations installed in previous years are being removed amid the conflict…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Friday to build a stable and constructive relationship but achieved only a vague agreement on easing a dispute over a Chinese ban on Japanese seafood, officials said.Kishida told reporters after a 65-minute meeting with Xi on…

close Video A high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany on Friday that left several people slightly injured, police said. STUDENT AT GERMAN SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL FATALLY SHOT BY CLASSMATE Police wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that there was a “lateral contact” between…

11 civilians, including eight children and a senior citizen, have reportedly been killed in an airstrike on the village of Vuilu, Burma, by the country’s military junta.”All the children were under the age of 12 and two of them are the teacher’s children,” National Unity Government official Ngai Tam Maung…

Mohamed Muizzu was sworn in Friday as the Maldives’ president, succeeding Ibrahim Solih.Muizzu, a conservative Islamist largely seen as sympathetic to China, defeated Solih in an upset in September’s election.Muizzu vowed upon inauguration that the archipelagic nation’s “lines of independence and sovereignty will be drawn clearly,” and doubled down on…

One woman died and 19 people were rescued after a dinghy carrying migrants to Greece capsized off an islet in the eastern Aegean Sea near the Turkish coast Friday, Greek authorities said.A coast guard statement said the woman was found unconscious in the water and was pronounced dead in hospital…

BERLIN (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Germany Friday on a short visit overshadowed by the two countries’ very different stances on the war between Israel and Hamas.Erdogan was welcomed by Germany’s largely ceremonial president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, ahead of an evening meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz…

LONDON (AP) — British author A.S. Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87.Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, said Friday that the author, whose full name was Antonia Byatt, died…