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Samantha Power, the Biden-Harris administration’s USAID administrator, posted a tone-deaf video Friday explaining “how Americans are helping Ukraine keep the lights and heat on” — as nearly 700,000 American homes and businesses suffer from power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Russian prosecutors asked for a seven-year sentence in the trial of a U.S. citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine against Russia, Russian news agencies reported Saturday.

Taiwan’s growing obsession with envisioning a Chinese invasion will soon extend to the realm of board games, as a crowdfunding drive raised $100,000 for a game called “2045” that will allow players to simulate a Chinese attack twenty years in the future.

Vice President Kamala Harris will tour the hurricane devastation in North Carolina on Saturday after critics mocked her for posting a photo surveying the damage on a plane. 

New NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited Ukraine on Thursday in his first official trip since taking office, pledging continued support.

Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding battle, military officials said Wednesday.

Russia, which has occupied Crimea for nearly 11 years and invaded the rest of Ukraine two years ago, on Tuesday demanded Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon less than 24 hours after they began their limited ground incursion.

Russia launched more than 1,300 Shahed drones at Ukraine in September alone – the highest number in a single month since the war began.

More than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia Sunday, officials said, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical center in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least nine people on Saturday morning, officials said.

Former President Donald Trump said before a meeting in New York City with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that it is time for the Ukraine War to end, and thanked Zelensky for defending him during the Democrat Ukraine impeachment hoax.

Ukraine war shows need to involve “whole of society” in defence, but public are deeply averse to notion of conscription a report finds.

Vice President Kamala Harris avoided answering press questions again after delivering remarks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Thursday.

The House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent visit to Pennsylvania.

Ukraine´s air defenses battled an overnight Russian aerial attack on the capital Kyiv for five hours, officials said Thursday.

European intelligence sources said on Wednesday that Russia has developed a new model of attack drone in China with the help of Chinese specialists, and will soon deploy that weapon on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenksy to fire the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States over Zelensky’s “partisan campaign event” at an ammunition plant in battleground Pennsylvania.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed China’s peace proposals as insincere and even treacherous at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday, insisting only his own proposals can bring “real and just peace” to his people by ending Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion.

Appeal made to U.N. Security Council and “global south” nations to force Russia to peace, accusing Moscow of targeting nuclear facilities. 

Ukrainian troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat as they drove Russian forces out of a huge processing plant in the town of Vovchansk in Ukraine’s northeast that had been occupied for four months, officials said Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “new international order” to better represent non-Western powers on the global stage.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres complains that growing distrust between major powers is getting in the way of climate cooperation.

More than 700 members of the Deep State — a mixture of high, medium, and low-ranking government officials and staffers — signed a letter endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, in a move reminiscent of the letter 51 former intelligence officials signed claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an event in New York on Sunday for thousands of Indians living in the United States.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is bashing former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), attacking them in American media outlets and touring an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania Sunday — reportedly arriving there at the taxpayers’ expense on an Air Force jet.

Monday marked the eve of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s “general debate,” a unique global event in which the world’s heads of government descend on New York City and receive a platform to discuss any topic of their choosing.

Zelensky will present his proposals for “victory” to President Joe Biden, as well as presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday will visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory before meeting with Kamala Harris.

Russian strikes hit high-rise apartment blocks in Ukraine´s city of Kharkiv, leaving dozens wounded in a second nighttime attack this week.

A blaze tore through a Russian arms depot deep inside the country, triggering explosions and the closure of a major highway, after Ukraine overnight launched over 100 drones at Russia and occupied Crimea, Russian news reports and the Defense Ministry said.

EC President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Ukraine on Friday focused on helping the country to repair its war-damaged electricity grid.

The EU is getting a defence commissioner for the first time and he warns war with Russia is just years away, calling to “properly prepare”. 

Americans who had contact with the suspect in an alleged failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, were so alarmed by his erratic behavior in Ukraine that they alerted U.S. officials, who apparently did very little with the warnings.

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Tuesday to reportedly discuss “continuous and lasting” cooperation, days after Shoigu made a similar stop in North Korea.

Ukrainian drones struck a large military depot in a town deep inside Russia overnight, causing a huge blaze and prompting an evacuation.

Exactly four months before Sunday’s incident, a gunman shot a NATO leader five times, later confessing he did it out of support for Ukraine.