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Ukraine's president says Moscow struck gas stations and grid assets within hours of Donald Trump's "energy ceasefire" post, leaving 33 injured as European leaders question whether the truce has started.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Representative Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area residence on Monday under a warrant the Justice Department said was tied to an active federal criminal inquiry, intensifying a pre-election clash over immigration enforcement and political targeting.
Treasury officials meet bond dealers ahead of the Nov. 4 refunding while Congress returns with unfinished appropriations, putting federal borrowing needs and buyback sizes on the table for anyone watching mortgage rates.
China targeted two sitting ministers whose governments still recognise Taipei, banning transactions and blocking entry to Hong Kong and Macau two days after Taiwan’s National Day.
Mohsen Rezaei said Tehran still sees gaps in a US response to seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz as Gulf airport strikes and shipping risks keep energy markets on edge.
Leo told pilgrims at the Sunday Angelus that doctors found a localized lung nodule and scheduled removal at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, with the Vatican projecting about a week of post-operative recovery.
Search teams recovered 30 more bodies from the Gulf of Aden wreck, one of the deadliest capsizings on the Eastern Route in years, as survivors described a crowded night departure toward Yemen.
The U.S. president said Kyiv needs a new leader after blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for refinery attacks that he ties to diesel prices, even as Washington eases sanctions on Russian fuel exports.
On ABC's "This Week," Ukraine's president tied a wartime vote to a full two-month truce and pushed back on Donald Trump's call for new leadership while saying Kyiv would accept an energy ceasefire if Moscow stops striking grids.
The U.S. president said both sides had agreed to halt strikes on energy infrastructure, but neither Russia nor Ukraine had publicly endorsed the claim hours later as Zelenskyy pressed for reciprocal guarantees.
Islamabad suspended Imran Khan's provincial government and pledged troop deployments after accusing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa leaders of failing to curb militant attacks along the Afghan border.
Senate Agriculture leaders remain split over how long to delay new SNAP state cost-share rules, leaving farm-bill talks stuck two weeks before the November 3 midterms.
A U.S.-brokered truce halted major combat and returned every hostage, but Israeli forces now control more territory than the agreement allowed and strikes have killed about 1,450 Palestinians since October 2025.
Nightly Tirana rallies have passed the hundred-day mark over a Jared Kushner–backed luxury plan on protected Vjosa–Narta wetlands, turning a beach confrontation into Albania’s largest sustained mobilisation since communism fell.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov described a “very substantive” Friday conversation that yielded a Russian diesel supply pledge and dimmed hopes for quick trilateral peace talks, as Kyiv and European allies pushed back.
President Donald Trump says Moscow will ship more than 300,000 metric tons of diesel immediately while Treasury issues a licence through April, even as analysts question whether the volumes can move pump prices before November.
Ethiopia’s foreign minister invoked the U.N. Charter’s self-defense clause in a Friday letter to the Security Council, accusing Eritrea of troop crossings and insurgent support as allied forces report advances in Tigray.
Social Security beneficiaries await an October 14 inflation release that will lock the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment; analysts track a roughly 3.4 percent raise from July–August CPI-W data, with Medicare Part B premiums still to be announced separately in November.
U.S. envoys said six hours of talks with Ukraine, NATO and European allies produced a shared work plan on winter energy, export corridors and security guarantees, with Washington preparing its next contact with Russia.
Washington barred U.S. firms from transacting with the Hague court and gave allies six months to negotiate, hours after Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize for international-law work.
A federal judge barred the Postal Service from enforcing White House mail-ballot envelope rules before the Nov. 3 election, keeping current designs in place for voters who return ballots by mail.
President Donald Trump said Washington will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterm elections, easing one Gulf risk premium even as Tehran’s navy vows nightly Hormuz enforcement and Iranian media report new blasts near the chokepoint.
Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali held the north London seat with 12,292 votes as the Greens posted a 13-point swing behind leader Zack Polanski, who vowed to stay on despite a bruising week for his party.
The secretary of state warned that escalation could spill into NATO territory as Ukrainian envoys prepare for two days of talks with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Miami.
Federal prosecutors unsealed a 30-page superseding indictment accusing the deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife of overseeing torture of political detainees, including more than a dozen U.S. citizens held in Caracas.
The president said on Truth Social that Washington will hold off on new strikes until after the November 3 vote, even as the Pentagon finishes plans and the Hormuz oil blockade stays in place.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez halted stun-grenade use at lycée demonstrations after a 15-year-old lost his left hand near Lens, while police watchdog IGPN reviews whether the teen picked up the device or was struck directly.
CMS, Labor and Treasury finalized updated Transparency in Coverage rules on October 5; core provisions take effect December 7, 2026, with new phone access to personalized cost-sharing quotes and quarterly public price files employers must police.
Tehran and Muscat fixed GPS corridors for inbound and outbound traffic, but insurers and shippers say the deal does not remove war-risk premiums while tanker attacks continue in the Gulf.
The Provisional Electoral Council suspended the December 13 presidential and legislative vote without setting a replacement date, leaving Haiti on track for a decade without national elections.
Lawmakers elected economist Justina Shiroka Pula minutes before a constitutional deadline, pairing ruling and opposition votes to avoid another snap election and protests over Hague court cases.
The Trump administration began sending one-time $90 Medicare Part B rebates from the Medicare Improvement Fund as roughly 20 million seniors see deposits or checks in early October.
The vice president told Reuters that Tehran must shrink its enrichment capacity now, not promise future drawdowns, as the seven-month conflict enters its eighth month.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told parliament that high schools will clear half a day between Wednesday and Friday for on-campus democracy forums, as police and students clashed during the third nationwide walkout over staffing and facilities.
Basque nationalists said they will back Pedro Sánchez's reworked housing decree, giving the caretaker body enough votes to extend eviction protections even after Congress was dissolved for a November 29 election.
A proposed Health and Human Services rule would roll back Head Start wage and benefit requirements due in 2028 and 2031; public comments on the docket close October 6 at midnight Eastern.
Spain’s prime minister called a snap general election for 29 November after opposition parties blocked emergency housing decrees, betting that affordability anger can rebuild a progressive majority.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and an RSF–SPLM-N alliance emptied ten villages in Wad al-Mahi on Sunday, adding to a Blue Nile displacement total that already exceeded 99,000 before the latest surge.
Judges say Haibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani pursued a policy of persecution tied to murder, torture and the erasure of girls' education, as the court releases sealed warrant details.
The September CPI report due Oct. 14 will set Social Security’s 2027 cost-of-living adjustment; advocacy groups and AARP now project a raise near 3.5%–3.6%, up from this year’s 2.8%.
Brazil’s electoral court put Senator Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with nearly all ballots counted, setting an October 25 runoff for Latin America’s largest economy.
Merz arrived by train as air-raid alerts sounded, pledging interceptor drones, IRIS-T missiles and €350 million for grid repairs while Russia struck another Kyiv bridge.
The Supreme Court sought Election Commission replies on Special Intensive Revision decisions while Chief Justice Surya Kant said judges never signed off on an altered voter-registration form.
Police detained five people after anti-government crowds tried to enter the presidential compound on election day, hours after Georgian Dream claimed every municipality in a vote the pro-European opposition refused to contest.
Standing beside Chancellor Merz in Kyiv, the Ukrainian president backed Washington’s push for technical talks by late October and said Abu Dhabi or another U.S.-proposed venue could host a three-way meeting even as Moscow keeps hitting the grid.
Polling stations across Brazil opened at 8 a.m. Brasília time for a general election that could send President Lula and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro to an October 25 runoff.
Federal law treats food hot at the register as a restaurant meal, and a 1977 ban written to keep grocers from beating fast-food outlets still governs the checkout lane.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi opened a phased convoy from Lakki Marwat after talks collapsed, while Islamabad sealed roads with containers and ministers vowed to block entry.
Voter registration ends Sunday in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and several other states, one month before the Nov. 3 midterms that will decide control of Congress.
Brazilians vote Sunday in a presidential first round that is almost certain to send President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro into an October runoff, with electronic tallies expected within hours of polls closing.
The newspaper said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are negotiating a possible purchase of Lukoil’s overseas fields, refineries and retail sites, a structure Putin raised at the Kremlin on Sept. 5.
Federal agencies entered day three of a funding lapse on October 3 with the E-Verify work-authorization portal offline and human-resources teams scrambling to document new hires.
A 54–44 roll call left Republicans six votes shy of advancing their stopgap, while the White House froze $2.1 billion in Chicago transit aid as pressure widened.
A federal judge in El Paso halted barrier work across the entire 500-mile Big Bend sector and stayed sweeping construction waivers while a lawsuit over parkland and private ranches proceeds.
Witnesses say Christa Pike survived two pentobarbital doses Wednesday before Governor Bill Lee paused all Tennessee executions for 2026 and ordered a review of lethal-injection protocols.
A 29,000-job September gain and 4.2% unemployment land four weeks before midterms, giving both parties a fresh set of numbers to fight over on inflation and wages.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's team to leave New York on Monday evening after Qatari-brokered contacts failed to narrow gaps on Hormuz and sanctions, while Tehran insists the departure followed a long-planned schedule.
Representatives of Syria’s post-Assad government and Lebanon’s Hezbollah met at least once in Turkey last month to ease cross-border tensions, six sources told Reuters, even as Damascus publicly denied any contact.
Federal agencies start fiscal year 2027 today under a continuing resolution that freezes spending at 2026 rates through December 11, setting up a pre-holiday funding fight if Congress does not pass full-year bills.
Pretoria issued its third formal démarche to Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III after he pressed Washington’s policy demands in public, while both capitals say they still want a working relationship.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's delegation off U.S. soil after Qatari mediation failed to move wartime talks, even as Tehran said it had received a written American reply.
Tehran says Washington answered Iran's latest ceasefire package even after President Donald Trump publicly rejected it, as Qatari mediators keep working the Strait of Hormuz file.
Stockholm named four 2026 laureates—from a Georgian legal watchdog to an AI accountability researcher—after reviewing 200 nominations from 72 countries.
Lawmakers funded the government through Dec. 11, but unpaid-work shutdowns still threaten TSA and FAA staff unless aviation pay protection bills advance.
The last U.S. combat forces left Iraq on Wednesday as Baghdad declared a sovereignty day, ending Operation Inherent Resolve while Iraqi leaders warn that militias and Islamic State cells still test a force trained for coalition support.
The royal appointment follows a parliamentary election that handed the centrist PAM its first nationwide win and leaves Mansouri to stitch together a coalition in Rabat.
Civil servants marched nationwide ahead of Thursday’s budget rollout while Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said police held 440 people after school protests turned violent.
A senior Saudi official rejected Israeli media claims of a Gulf sit-down with Riyadh during Benjamin Netanyahu’s Abu Dhabi trip, while Tehran warned the Emirates that hosting the Israeli leader carried “highly dangerous consequences.”
Former special counsel Jack Smith told the Senate Judiciary Committee he stands by indicting Donald Trump over the 2020 election and classified documents, as Republicans press to investigate the prosecutor himself.
A federal judge ruled that Homeland Security and FEMA cannot withhold counterterrorism aid until states change how they run elections, blocking a grant condition tied to November’s midterms.
The September continuing resolution keeps federal agencies open through December 11 and postpones a controversial OMB rewrite of grant rules that counties said would disrupt social programs.
A product ban covering roughly $1 billion in Canadian goods took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, targeting alcohol, some dairy lines and motorcycles after Ottawa matched U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar.
Iran’s foreign minister says indirect talks with Washington continued through Qatari mediators after President Donald Trump rejected Tehran’s latest Hormuz proposal, with oil markets watching for a formal US answer.
Lawmakers stripped Prime Minister Peter Magyar and two former Viktor Orban ministers of parliamentary immunity on Monday, opening criminal investigations into theft and bribery claims less than six months after Magyar’s Tisza party ousted Fidesz.
Three nationally aired spots that close with “Paid for by the U.S. Government” are prompting questions from ethics lawyers and lawmakers in both parties five weeks before the midterms.
The House voted 370–48 on September 1 to extend federal funding through December 11, sending a stopgap bill to President Trump as lawmakers leave Washington to campaign for the November midterms.
Malaysia’s longest-serving prime minister lost his wife of seven decades at the National Heart Institute; Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim ordered a state funeral and burial beside Tun Endon Mahmood in Putrajaya.
Nine judges will decide whether party-list barcodes and constituency QR codes on February ballots violated Thailand’s direct-and-secret voting clause, with outcomes ranging from dismissal to a nationwide rerun.
Aleksandar Vucic said he would hand the presidency to parliament speaker Ana Brnabic on Monday and lead his party into an election student protesters have demanded since the Novi Sad station disaster.
Homeland Security rejected reports that agents were told to stop picking up immigrants without criminal records, sending fresh guidance after a week of confused verbal orders about collateral arrests.
President Trump signed a continuing resolution on September 2 that funds federal agencies through December 11, pushing the next shutdown fight past the November 3 midterms but leaving TSA and other accounts on a short leash again.
Johann Wadephul pressed Sergey Lavrov on grain corridors and the Leipzig airport drone case in the first German-Russian ministerial contact since the 2022 invasion, while Lavrov told reporters Berlin could have skipped the meeting and read his public statements instead.
After an estimated 800,000 people filled the Champs-Élysées on Saturday, Leo XIV moved to Lourdes for a meadow Mass, a bishops' session and closed-door talks with clergy abuse survivors.
President Donald Trump moved Friday to claw back roughly $810 million in domestic programs, using a timing tactic that leaves Congress little room to block the cuts before the fiscal year ends.
The zero-rate window for most patented drug imports closes Sept. 29 at 12:01 a.m. ET. Generics stay exempt, but customs brokers and importers now face a new HTS code and a 100% duty on covered entries.
H.Con.Res. 89 fails 49-50 as Collins, Murkowski, Paul and Tillis cross over; Fetterman votes no, leaving Congress's war powers fight unresolved in the seventh month of the Iran campaign.
Lebanon's prime minister demands an Israeli pullout to the 1949 line and detainee release at the UN, but shelling along the Blue Line continues and June framework talks remain stalled.
Xi’s state visit closed with a National Archives tour, tea and warm words, but the concrete results were thin. Trump says the next meetings are set for November in China and December in Miami.
Kyiv says Washington has proposed a UAE-hosted technical trilateral with Ukrainian and Russian officials, but no date is set and Moscow has not announced participation.
Federal fraud audits put $867.5 million in California Medicaid payments and $199 million in Minnesota on hold in July. Both states want the money moving again before clinics and enrollees absorb the cost — and before the fall enrollment window gives the fight an audience.
Xi Jinping's state visit ends with a White House tea and a National Archives tour of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, leaving a two-month extension of the tariff truce as the only dated deliverable and no new trade or AI agreement on paper.
Trump's UN address and Xi Jinping's state visit produced one tangible result — a two-month extension of the trade truce — while Iran, Ukraine and Middle East diplomacy stayed stuck, and the November midterms now set the tempo on everything else.
Iran’s president used a U.N. General Assembly press meeting to ask Washington to return to the collapsed June memorandum before the November midterms, a deadline the White House has already said it will not meet — with Trump, Congress and gasoline prices all pointing the other way.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called for a full and immediate ceasefire in Ukraine starting on the Black Sea, saying Russian attacks on ports are blocking grain that could ease global food prices as diplomats trade competing peace formulas at the United Nations.
King Felipe VI told the United Nations General Assembly that bombings of hospitals and schools in Gaza are abhorrent and urged member states to stop the violence, as Spain's government enforces a total arms embargo on Israel that blocks exports of weapons, dual-use technology, and aviation fuel with military applications.
President Javier Milei told the United Nations that the body had drifted into supranational overreach, outlined four reform principles centered on peace and subsidiarity, praised Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, and demanded Britain resume talks on the Falkland Islands while calling for the release of an Argentine detainee in Venezuela.
Presidential envoy Steve Witkoff told reporters the Trump administration could release written Gaza framework terms before the UN General Debate ends, as Security Council members schedule consultations and Israeli operations in Gaza City continue to complicate hostage mediation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as protests mount in New York over the Gaza war, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks by video after Washington denied him a visa, and European allies that once shielded Israel face fresh friction over West Bank sanctions.
U.S. officials circulated a 21-point Middle East peace framework at the United Nations while envoy Steve Witkoff said he was hopeful a Gaza breakthrough could land within days, even as Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Gaza City and European and Arab diplomats floated a parallel post-war initiative.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly that Damascus is ready to rejoin the international community while accusing Israel of hundreds of strikes since December and calling for a return to the 1974 Golan buffer agreement.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his first wartime address to the United Nations on Wednesday to call the United States a terrorist power, reject Donald Trump's annihilation threat, and insist Tehran will negotiate only without coercion as U.S. and Israeli delegations boycotted the speech.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Vladimir Putin remained open to meeting Donald Trump in New York but reiterated that Volodymyr Zelenskyy would have to come to Moscow for any bilateral summit, a condition Kyiv has repeatedly rejected.
Senate Finance Committee Democrats demanded a written Commerce rare-earth refinery and magnet timeline before President Xi’s state dinner, threatening to hold trade-nominee votes unless the administration publishes verifiable separation milestones tied to Defense stockpile targets.
President Donald Trump plans a rare planeside welcome for Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday afternoon, kicking off a three-day state visit that will test trade, technology and Taiwan arms sales before a November tariff deadline.
Qatari mediators spent hours shuttling proposals between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in New York on Tuesday, the first diplomatic contact since a June ceasefire memorandum collapsed and Hormuz traffic stalled under a U.S. naval blockade.
Qatar’s emir told the United Nations General Assembly that the Gulf is living through one of its most dangerous phases as U.S. and Iranian envoys held mediated talks in New York on ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to meet in New York on Wednesday, Moscow diplomats told TASS, as Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy separately presses Donald Trump for an energy truce during a General Assembly week already crowded with Middle East diplomacy.
Donald Trump praised Andy Burnham as a natural businessman after their first face-to-face talks at the United Nations, then publicly slammed Britain’s Chagos Islands handover as a terrible deal that threatens the joint Diego Garcia base Washington uses for Middle East operations.
As lawsuits and court deadlines pile up, President Donald Trump is invoking national security to defend a White House press ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico and to justify a planned triumphal arch complex, legal scholars told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Senate Banking Committee scheduled a Fed vice chair nomination hearing for late September after the FOMC’s rate decision, setting up a partisan test of how much latitude the next supervisor will have on bank capital and fintech charter questions.
EU ambassadors missed two Monday night deadlines to renew sanctions on nearly 3,000 Russia-linked people and firms after Latvia blocked a French-backed compromise to delist Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, leaving the blacklist hours from lapse as Volodymyr Zelensky prepared to meet Donald Trump in New York.
President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in New York on Monday for the UN General Assembly and a same-day meeting with Donald Trump as Washington pressed Kyiv to pause strikes on Russian diesel refineries and Moscow answered with overnight missiles on Dnipro.
Foreign ministers from all seven G7 governments issued a joint demand in New York that Iran stop arming Yemen’s Houthis, hours before Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged a single RAF Voyager tanker from Akrotiri for defensive Saudi air-to-air refueling as fighting nears Bab el-Mandeb.
French President Emmanuel Macron said after meeting Donald Trump in New York that both governments would pursue a Hormuz navigation push and a moratorium on energy-infrastructure strikes, while Qatari mediators worked to secure a short pause so U.S.–Iran talks could resume and Washington floated a multibillion-dollar regional rebuild fund.
Secretary-General António Guterres told Al Jazeera on Monday that a “dramatic geopolitical divide” has paralyzed the Security Council as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East deepen, in what may be his last General Assembly opening week before his term ends.
President Donald Trump is expected to meet Gulf Cooperation Council leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week to chart postwar Iran strategy, Axios reported, as Tehran warns of retaliation and Hormuz shipping stays thin.
Gaza medics said Israeli fire killed three Palestinians on Monday, including 11-year-old Ismail al-Bardawil after tanks shot at tents in al-Mawasi, as shootings in central and northern Gaza deepened strain on the October 2025 truce.
ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, a Venezuelan DoorDash driver, during a north Austin traffic stop Sunday; he was hospitalized then moved to detention in Pearsall with a bullet still in his back as DHS opened an HSI-led probe and protesters gathered.
Sudan’s army struck RSF positions in western North Kordofan on Monday while Sunday drone attacks on El Obeid killed two people and injured 22, according to Ahram Online and Radio Tamazuj, intensifying fighting around the Kordofan capital.
The Executive Yuan says a KMT-led freeze on Premier Cho Jung-tai’s pay through December violates Constitutional Interpretation No. 601, as lawmakers use the budget to pressure the Cabinet over countersigning disputes.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pushed her Haneda departure to 11 p.m. on Sept 21 as Typhoon Dujuan disrupted flights, keeping a four-day U.S. trip that includes UN remarks and a Trump meeting on Tuesday.
With more than 95% of ballots counted, Vladimir Putin’s party took 57.83% in a three-day vote he framed as a referendum on the Ukraine war, handing United Russia a wider margin than in 2021.
Military Committee chair Giuseppe Cavo Dragone said allied staffs have mapped regional responses from hybrid probes to collective-defense triggers, as Poland warns of drone tests along the eastern border.
Nearly 130 heads of state and government are heading to New York as Secretary-General António Guterres opens a high-level week shadowed by wars in Iran, Gaza, and Ukraine and a new Security Council session on runaway artificial intelligence.
Beijing confirmed Monday that Xi Jinping will travel to Washington for a state visit September 23–25 instead of joining world leaders at the UN General Assembly, setting up a White House summit focused on trade, AI, and Taiwan.
Tehran’s central military command said Sunday it had intelligence that Washington is preparing renewed attacks, threatening retaliation across the Middle East as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell sharply.
The New York Times reported that the White House prepared Sunday strikes on Houthi targets after Saudi pleas, then called them off as crews were loading bombs, while fighters pressed toward strategic highlands in Taiz province.
The three news organizations asked a federal judge in Washington to immediately restore hard-pass access after reporters were turned away Sept. 19, arguing Trump’s ban is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
Former battlefield rivals including the TPLF and Amhara Fano signed a transitional charter Sunday, pledging coordinated pressure to replace Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government.
Hsiao Bi-khim told Sky News Taipei will not trade democracy for calm as CSIS data show record Chinese coast guard activity east of Taiwan ahead of a Trump-Xi meeting.
Kyiv sent hundreds of drones toward the capital as voting ended Sunday, damaging a Moscow refinery and killing at least two people in the wider region, officials on both sides said.
The Trump administration has prepared sanctions that would bar most U.S. persons and companies from transacting with the International Criminal Court after a six- to seven-month grace period, the Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported, escalating a campaign that until now targeted individual judges and prosecutors.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is traveling to meet President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday with a year-old tariff truce and export surge in the balance, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng finish preparatory talks on extensions rather than new market openings.
Seven Ethiopian armed and political movements announced the Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for Survival on Sunday, pledging to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and open an inclusive transitional administration after more than a year of talks.