Russia’s President Vladimir Putin offered the U.S. the opportunity for joint exploration of the country’s rare earth metals deposits, as well as the supply of aluminum to the U.S. domestic market, outlining a future economic deal between the two countries.

Ukraine hosted European leaders to mark three years of all-out war with Russia, while top U.S. officials stayed away in a clear illustration of President Donald Trump’s motion towards Moscow since returning to power.

Israel said on Sunday it was delaying the release of more than 600 Palestinians in return for six living and four dead hostages who had been freed, accusing Hamas of repeated violations including “humiliating” handover ceremonies.

Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election.

Hundreds of thousands of people bid farewell to Hezbollah’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah at a mass funeral in Beirut.

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.