The kingdom said it intercepted a drone before it entered airspace over Mecca. The Iran-backed Yemeni rebels denied targeting the city in their escalating campaign against the key U.S. ally.

The deal is part of the Trump administration’s more transactional approach to a close Russian ally that Europe has tried to isolate.

Latin America accounted for 105 of the 124 land and environmental defenders killed worldwide in 2025 -- nearly 85% of the global total.

A Russia sanctions bill introduced by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., nearly a year and a half ago is expected to clear the U.S. House on Wednesday. The bill received overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate,

Stuart Varney and Victoria Coates react to claims that Russia targeted Zelensky's plane with drones. Coates argues Putin is running out of options and seeking a kill shot to install a puppet government.

The Kremlin orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot against a prominent Russian dissident in Washington, D.C., this summer, the Department of Justice has said, as it unsealed charges against five people it alleged were part of a “global assassination network” aimed at causing “destruction and mayhem around the world.

The building was previously damaged by an Israeli strike, the local rescue service said. Its fall underscored the precarious conditions of those living among the enclave’s ruins.

A special court sitting in The Hague sentenced 4 former Kosovon Liberation Army members to long prison terms for murder, torture and other war crimes.