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NATO's top military commander said the alliance is "ready to fight tonight" if it is attacked, as European officials warn Russia could test NATO's defenses with increased covert attacks or a limited military incursion.

French police detained a 14-year-old boy suspected of opening fire Monday on his middle school principal and a teacher with a shotgun that he hid in a guitar case, wounding both in a rare school shooting, prosecutors said.

DNA left on a protective painting cover helped investigators recover two stolen Renoirs and uncover what they suspected were preparations for another art heist, a French prosecutor said Monday.

North Korea test-fired multiple ballistic missiles Monday, just days after South Korea conducted the first successful test of its own hypersonic missile.

South Africa's suspended deputy head of the police, Shadrack Sibiya, resigned from his position on Monday amid allegations of corruption and alleged sexual offenses leveled against him.

Iranian officials are reviewing the latest U.S. peace proposal and will respond with a counterproposal via mediators afterward, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Monday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Europe's main eastern-flank security gathering Monday that Kyiv will honor President Trump's surprise "energy ceasefire" if Moscow does. But Russian drones, he said, kept hitting Ukraine's power and gas ...

The European Union imposed sanctions on Monday on almost 1,600 Russian people and companies linked to Russia's arms industry, notably targeting those suspected of involvement in making parts for drones and missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia has continued to strike Ukraine's energy facilities even after U.S. President Trump said a day earlier that the warring countries had agreed on an energy ceasefire in the 4 1/2-year-old ...

American-born economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel memorial prize in economics on Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks, such as energy crises and inflation.