Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Thursday his agreement this year to grant the United States access to more military bases in his country was not intended for use for “offensive action” against any country.

Jurors in Donald Trump’s civil rape trial on Thursday saw a video deposition in which the former U.S. president defended private comments he made in 2005 about grabbing women sexually without asking.

A jury on Thursday convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group including its former leader Enrique Tarrio of seditious conspiracy, finding they plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed bid to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory.

A fresh push for a bipartisan immigration overhaul, coupled with enhanced border security, is emerging in the U.S. Congress, as thousands of migrants amass across the border in Mexico ahead of the end of COVID-era border restrictions next week.

Russia accused the United States of being behind what it says was a drone attack on Moscow’s Kremlin citadel intended to kill President Vladimir Putin.

Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities in the early hours of this morning, officials and media outlets said, with some local authorities reporting that anti-aircraft defences were at work.

A 13-year-old boy gunned down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school in a planned attack, prompting Serbia’s president to announce tougher curbs on gun ownership.

India will set up a committee to look into the problems gay couples face in their day-to-day life, the government told the country’s top court on Wednesday during arguments for same-sex unions to be recognised.

Texas authorities have arrested the wife and a friend of a man accused of killing five of his neighbors, saying the two helped the suspect evade capture for four days, a local prosecutor said.

Police have arrested the man suspected of killing one woman and wounding four others.

The United States is extensively engaged on the case of a U.S. journalist who disappeared a decade ago, including with Syria and other countries, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of a failed attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin citadel in Moscow, and threatened to retaliate.