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President Trump on Monday was not happy with Russia and Ukraine ahead of his scheduled calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President Trump said Monday after a two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow and Kyiv will immediately start ceasefire talks.

Portugal's third general election in three years has failed to deliver the result that could break the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people.

Vice President J.D. Vance passed along a letter from President Trump and first lady Melania Trump to Pope Leo XIV inviting him to the White House.

A pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania's presidential election, beating out a hard-right nationalist who had channeled people's anger at the political establishment to surge in the polls.

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff offensive has led European officials to cut their growth forecasts for this year and next - even in a best-case scenario in which the highest rates on most goods could be negotiated away.

Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance met at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine.

France's civil aviation authority said some flights were still being canceled and others delayed on Monday at Paris-Orly airport, one day after air traffic control systems suffered a breakdown that caused substantial disruption.

Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters marched through the Dutch capital on Sunday to demand their government do more to halt Israel's campaign in Gaza, in what organizers called the country's biggest demonstration in two decades.

Votes were being cast across Buenos Aires on Sunday in local elections that will test Argentina's President Javier Milei's political strength as he seeks to steer mainstream conservatives toward his radical libertarian platform.