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The online influencer has bragged about refusing to pay taxes. A London court found that he and his brother had not paid taxes on more than £21 million in business revenue.

Ukraine's forces are steadily losing ground on the battlefield. The assassination of a top general in Moscow won't improve their war effort, analysts and Western officials say.

A U.S. official announced the move about the truce in Manbij, where Kurdish and Turkish-backed fighters have clashed, as U.S. and other foreign officials try to broker a lasting armistice.

For over three months, judges and lawyers have tried to grasp the true nature of the man who said he had invited dozens of strangers to join him in raping his drugged wife.

Corruption investigations may have shaken Beijing's confidence in top commanders, but China's military expansion hasn't slowed, a report found.

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.