Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a face-to-face meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin in a renewed bid to end the war.
In an open letter to the Russian president, the Ukrainian leader said it would be "wrong to simply wait" until the war in Europe becomes the focus of the US's attention once more, adding peace could only come "through direct engagement between" Ukraine and Russia.
He also called for a full ceasefire for the duration of proposed negotiations - something Putin ruled out earlier
John Bolton, a onetime national security advisor to Donald Trump who evolved into one of his most prominent critics, has reached a deal to plead guilty in his federal classified documents case, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Federal prosecutors indicted Bolton last year on 18 counts related to improper handling of classified material. Bolton initially pleaded not guilty.
He will plead guilty to one count of retention of national defence information and will pay a $2.25
Brandy Melville, the one-size fashion retailer, is now closing all changing rooms in its stores across the US, multiple employees have confirmed.
The move has caused an uproar on social media among the young women who frequent its stores nationwide, with one shopper calling it "devastating news".
"How am I supposed to know if it's cute on me???!" another woman commented on TikTok.
Zeynab Javadli divorced Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum in 2019
A British human rights lawyer says the former wife of a nephew of the ruler of Dubai has gone missing.
Contact with Zeynab Javadli was lost on Tuesday and the BBC has been told her home in Dubai is locked and empty.
Javadli has repeatedly expressed concern for her safety. She's been embroiled for years in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
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A major investigation has been launched by police in the Netherlands into the suspected drugging and sexual assaults of a number of women, prompting the arrests of four men.
Dutch police said they had received information suggesting multiple women may have been drugged "by someone in their immediate circle" and sexually assaulted on camera, following tip-offs from agencies in England and Germany.
The suspects allegedly frequented private social media groups in
Watch: Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday auctions include jewellery and private letters
An auction with an array of memorabilia from Marilyn Monroe's estate and friends has already brought in thousands of dollars in bids on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
The sale, which began on Thursday, features 185 items from the model and actress's life, including a 1950s evening purse worth an estimated $100,0
Smoke billows from the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike on Thursday
In a strongly-worded statement, the Iran-backed group's leader Naim Qassem said negotiations had been "futile" and "humiliating" for Lebanon, and rejected categorically by "broad segments of the Lebanese people".
It comes after Israel and Lebanon announced a renewal of their fragile ceasefire with the creation of "pilot" security zones inside Lebanon in which Hezbollah operatives would be banned.
Watch: Moment House votes to limit Trump's Iran war powers
US President Donald Trump has hit back at lawmakers who voted to send him a rebuke over the war in Iran, calling them "unpatriotic".
On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed a measure seeking to halt Trump from taking further military action amid growing opposition to the war.
In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote: "Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats,
Protesters have gathered in front of the Albanian prime minister's office all week
Protests in the centre of Albania's capital, Tirana, are not exactly unusual. The opposition Democratic Party (PD) stage them so often that they could almost be classified as an offbeat tourist attraction.
But this week's nightly rallies in front of Prime Minister Edi Rama's office have been different - targeting US President's Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as well as the Socialist
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