Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he visited the “intense” eastern frontline town of Pokrovsk, where Russia has directed an unrelenting infantry assault for months to close in on the strategically placed road and rail hub.

Poland’s largest opposition party, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS), is set to lose millions in state funding after the country’s electoral commission rejected its 2023 financial report.

Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that called on Sudan’s warring parties to cease hostilities immediately and ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid.

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said he is “strongly confident” the South Korea-U.S. alliance will continue to thrive under the incoming U.S. administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva opened the summit of the Group of 20 major economies with the launch of a global alliance to combat poverty and hunger that 81 countries have agreed to back.

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah confirmed its media relations chief Mohammad Afif was killed by an Israeli strike on a building in central Beirut.

Diplomatic tensions over global warming will take center stage at the G20 summit in Brazil this week.

Slow-moving Tropical Depression Sara unleashed major rainfall over Honduras this weekend.

President Joe Biden’s administration has allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia.

Senegal headed to the polls to vote in a legislative election that the president hopes will give his party the clear majority it needs to implement an ambitious agenda for reforms.

Bangladesh is battling its worst outbreak of dengue in years.

About 1,500 people died in protests that brought down Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this year.