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"This war should not have taken place," Sihasak Phuangketkeow said in an interview, adding that Thailand is approaching Russia and China amid its economic crisis.

The move against Manus AI is Beijing's most aggressive step yet to stanch the loss of AI talent to the U.S., setting up a complicated legal and political fight.

His state visit begins after a gunman rattled Washington, but U.K. officials hope pomp can paper over an Iran war fracture and remind the president of the alliance's perks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's ratings are falling, and citizens are voicing despair, with the war in its fifth year, talks stalled and sanctions biting deeper.

Russia's invasion deepens the saga of Ukraine's Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A woman who fled war and ended up there says, "We overcame radiation. We will overcome Russia, too."

In the run-up to World War II, King George VI sought to rally American support with a garden party at the British Embassy, but it didn't go exactly as planned.

Iranian officials left Islamabad as U.S. envoys were due to depart Washington, leaving the prospect of direct talks to end the war in Iran uncertain.

Islamist militants struck across the country in an "unprecedented" attack believed to be waged by Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin.

Flávio Bolsonaro, 44, says he's a more measured version of his father: "I'm the Bolsonaro you always wanted."

Ahead of a Trump-Xi summit, Washington widens its crackdown on secretive oil and chemical trade between Beijing and Tehran.