After a deadline extension, the latest U.S. tariff threats seemed headed toward resolution on Wednesday, but questions lingered about what Canada would give up, and what it would get in exchange.

Ousted Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov’s explosive call for wartime national elections meant he had “crossed the Rubicon in his relationship with” his former boss, one Kyiv-based analyst said.

Israel says military police will investigate the killing of Hind Rajab, a young girl in Gaza whose death at the hands of its forces drew an international outcry.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad ⁠al-Shaibani ⁠said he made ⁠clear to Israel there were no plans to ​establish a Turkish military base at Abu al-Duhur airbase, which ‌Israel struck on Tuesday, ‌saying the site was being rehabilitated for use by ⁠the ⁠Syrian Air Force.

Liberia has charged former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking, money laundering and other offenses as part of an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network.

The United States plans to send a military hospital ship to Peru’s Pacific coast next year to help with the effects of El Nino. U.S. Ambassador to Peru Bernie Navarro announced this on

The new sanctions against members of the ICC fall under the State Department’s professed agenda to “dismantle” its jurisdiction.

After Syrian fighters opposed to Assad marched into Damascus to end the Assad family’s five-decade rule in December 2024, a number of military and security officers fled to Lebanon, where some remain.