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As Donald J. Trump prepares to take office in the United States, President Volodymyr Zelensky will attend a dinner hosted by the NATO chief to plot the path forward in the war with Russia.

A Syrian Air flight from Damascus landed in Aleppo on Wednesday, as the country's transitional government tries to demonstrate its ability to run the war-shattered country.

If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz's successor could be Friedrich Merz, 69, leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get the German economic engine humming again.

Syria's new rulers say they will spare conscripts of Bashar al-Assad and pursue those who oversaw his regime's abuses. Hundreds are lining up to learn which promise applies to them.

Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus.

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.

The suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, confessed to planting the bomb that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov in Moscow, a spokeswoman for Russian prosecutors said.

Police leaders waited too long -- three days -- to trigger a national mobilization to tackle the anti-immigrant violence that broke out in Britain this year, a report found.

What started out as a simple stopgap measure to avert a shutdown for a few months became a magnet for more than $100 billion in emergency disaster and farm aid, plus a host of unrelated policy measures.

In its efforts to attract visitors, the country extended stays from less than a week to up to 10 days for visitors between destinations.