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MOSCOW — Talks between senior United States envoys and the Russian leadership in Moscow concluded without a breakthrough on a proposed peace framework for Ukraine, Russian officials said, leaving the central question of territorial control unresolved and raising fresh doubts about the prospects for a negotiated end to the war. What

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump confronts a high-stakes foreign policy problem in Venezuela as Nicolás Maduro digs in and Washington reels from reporting that a recent U.S. maritime operation may have killed survivors and could amount to a war crime. The two threads have become entangled: a reported U.S.

KYIV — Russian officials on Monday said their forces had captured Pokrovsk, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine that has been contested for more than a year, a claim Kyiv has so far rejected and described as part of repeated Kremlin messaging aimed at shaping diplomatic leverage. Moscow released footage it

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump escalated pressure on Venezuela over the weekend by declaring the airspace above and surrounding the country “closed in its entirety,” a move that has heightened diplomatic tensions, prompted sharp denunciations from Caracas, and left airlines and regional governments scrambling for clarity about operational and legal consequences.

WASHINGTON — Two National Guard members were shot in an apparent ambush in downtown Washington, D.C., on 26 November 2025, leaving both service members in critical condition and prompting a multiagency investigation that officials described as probing motive and whether the attack constituted an act of terrorism. The shooting occurred