Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has survived a vote of no confidence in parliament over his controversial deal with China, which protesters said threatened the country’s future as a “Christian nation.”

European Union leaders are preparing an emergency summit after Germany’s likely new chancellor suggested that the transatlantic NATO military alliance may effectively collapse by June.

Iran has reportedly put its defense systems around its nuclear sites on high alert amid fears of an imminent attack by Israel and the United States.

War-torn Ukraine has agreed with the United States to jointly develop its natural resources in an effort to ease tensions and advance the prospects of a U.S.-backed ceasefire with Russia, several officials said Tuesday.

The United Nations Security Council approved a US-led resolution on Russia’s war in Ukraine on Monday, following its earlier rejection by the General Assembly.

In a turnaround, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced Monday that Russia would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a peace deal, and French President Emmanuel Macron said a truce could be agreed upon within weeks.

The United States voted against a European-backed resolution in the United Nations General Assembly that demanded Russia immediately withdraw its forces from Ukraine, reaffirm Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and strongly condemned Russia’s invasion on the third anniversary of the war.

Air raid sirens wailed throughout Kyiv Monday as a dozen world leaders arrived in the Ukrainian capital on the 3rd anniversary of the war that broke out with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Wales is the first part of Britain to roll out a facial recognition system that critics claim will turn Brits into “walking barcodes” and “a nation of suspects.”

Hungary will veto a new multibillion-euro European Union military aid package for Ukraine, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó confirmed Monday. Budapest also opposes “the automatic extension of sanctions” against Russian individuals, saying it prefers peace talks about ending the three-year war between Ukraine and Russia.