Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Russia launched more than 200 drones in an overnight attack, the largest of the war, as he condemned Russia’s “aerial terror” and called for unity among Ukraine’s allies.

President Donald Trump’s administration said it was placing all but a handful of USAID personnel around the world on paid administrative leave.

Britain’s Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal will meet in New Delhi to restart talks on a UK-India trade deal, the British government said.

Russian and U.S. teams plan to meet this week to discuss improving relations after the war in Ukraine had pushed ties to the worst level since the depths of the Cold War, a senior Russian start diplomat said.

Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election, vowed to help give Europe “real independence” from the U.S. as he prepared to cobble together a government.

Moldova’s government, a fierce critic of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, appealed to the country’s clergy to “tell the truth” about the war, saying that Moscow’s military actions had destroyed some 500 places of worship.

Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition for a second day running and has shown an “initial, slight insufficiency” in his kidney function, the Vatican said.

China defence ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said that Australian complaints over recent Chinese live-fire naval drills in international waters.

Israel delayed the release of over 600 Palestinian prisoners it had agreed to free.

President Donald Trump will name newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The Vatican said that Pope Francis’ health had deteriorated over the past 24 hours and for the first time described his condition as “critical”, reporting he had needed supplemental oxygen and blood transfusions.

Israel prepared to receive six more hostages from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, after accusations over the return of a misidentified body this week threatened to derail a fragile truce.