Residents in Russia’s largest cities have largely been sheltered from the daily realities of the war with Ukraine. But Kyiv’s long-range attacks are changing that.

"First of all, I didn't guarantee no war," Trump claimed. "Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?"

Pope Leo XIV said the war in Iran does not qualify as a "just war" according to Catholic teaching, while answering questions by journalists aboard the papal plane for his six-day visit to Spain.

On this Memorial Day, grieving families are remembering the 13 US troops who have been killed so far in connection with the war with Iran.

The war has upended global financial and energy markets, drawing concerns from world leaders.

President Trump has not signed off on the emerging framework, according to U.S. officials. But it could set the table for extending the cease-fire and more substantive negotiations.

Since the opening US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, the war in Iran has reshaped the Middle East in real time, with brinkmanship over the Strait of Hormuz and a haphazard final push toward ceasefire.

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