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The move, which will allow Chevron to begin negotiating with the government of Nicolás Maduro, is aimed at promoting talks between the Venezuelan government and the U.S.-backed opposition.

Eastern Europe wants big new deployments of NATO troops to defend against Russia, but some other alliance members are skeptical of then need for shifting major forces east, particulalry after seeing Russian forces struggle in Ukraine.

Russia's president spoke from Moscow's Red Square. Fighting continues in Mariupol, Odessa and Kherson.

China's technology exports to Russia have dropped significantly since U.S.-led sanctions took effect, U.S. says

Hundreds of Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant fighters were evacuated to Russian-held territory after Kyiv struck a cease-fire agreement with Moscow.

The United States has already committed nearly $4 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the war began.

Lebanon is in the midst of a crippling economic crisis, and more than a dozen independent candidates won seats.

With no end to the war in sight, these maps explain how terrain, geography and logistics are shaping the battle for key cities.

At least eight villas spread out across 10 miles have been frozen by the Italian government.

Moscow had issued an ultimatum to Ukrainians remaining in the besieged port city: Surrender by midday and your life will be spared. Here’s what to know about Mariupol and the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding there.

More than 450 cases described as ’extremely unusual because these are healthy children,’ mostly under 5.

Natural disasters have pushed concern in Australia about climate change to an all-time high. Yet as the country heads toward a federal election, neither major party is talking much about it.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey is not “favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO, but he has not ruled it out.

To right-wingers in the United States, steeped in anti-liberal grievance, Hungary offers a glimpse of culture war victory and a template for action at home.

The Biden administration is lifting restrictions on Cuba, including some aspects of travel to the island, caps on remittances and the issuance of at least 20,000 immigrant visas annually.

Even as Russia secured a victory in Mariupol, it suffered another setback on the global stage, as Sweden ended 200 years of military nonalignment to join Finland in applying for NATO membership.

Putin said Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO did not represent an imminent danger to Russia, but he warned the same would not be true if NATO staged a military buildup in the two countries.

French automaker Renault also announced the sale of its Russian assets for 1 ruble amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.