US President Donald Trump said Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to halt attacks on Kyiv and other cities for a week, as Moscow's strikes leave Ukraine facing its toughest winter since the start of the war.
A US government funding shutdown looked increasingly certain Thursday after Senate Democrats rejected a key procedural vote to express anger over the killing of two protesters against President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.
Russia's capital Moscow has this month seen the largest snowfall in more than 200 years, Moscow State University meteorologists said on Thursday.
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Politics
Colombia has restricted the importation of drones, whose increased use by guerrilla groups in a decades-old conflict killed 20 people last year and wounded nearly 300, the government said Thursday.
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Faced with political deadlock, open American meddling and the threat of war across its borders, is Iraq being dragged back to darker times after achieving hard-won stability?
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Vietnam's Phan Huy became the youngest-ever designer to present a collection on the official Haute Couture calendar in Paris aged just 27 on Thursday, rounding out a week of major fashion debuts and celebrity sightings.
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Oil prices surged Thursday after US President Donald Trump ramped up geopolitical tensions with threats of a military strike on Iran, while safe-haven gold soared to a fresh record near $5,600.
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Denmark's foreign minister said Thursday he was "more optimistic" after technical talks kicked off with the United States over Greenland.
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Culture
Phan Huy had a thrilling -- but quite stressful -- journey to making history at Paris Haute Couture Week on Thursday, where he became the youngest ever and the first Vietnamese designer to present a collection on the official calendar.
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President Donald Trump's border chief vowed Thursday to press on with the federal immigration crackdown in Minneapolis while acknowledging the mission needed to improve and promising to hold agents to account.
EU foreign ministers were expected to agree Thursday to put Iran's Revolutionary Guards on the bloc's "terrorist list" after a deadly crackdown on mass protests.
Jessica Pegula called her display "shoddy" and "erratic" as her Australian Open run ended in the semi-finals to Elena Rybakina on Thursday.
The UK navy is tightening the taps on allowing alcohol at sea, the defence ministry said Thursday.
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Sports
World number one Aryna Sabalenka said it would be "cool" to see Serena Williams return to tennis after the American great refused to rule it out when asked, and instead replied: "I don't know. I'm just going to see what happens."
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Elena Rybakina said Thursday she was braced for another "great battle" as she plots revenge over world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a rerun of their 2023 Australian Open final.
Ireland's hopes of regaining the Six Nations title suffered a second blow in two days with veteran centre Bundee Aki suspended for their first three matches for "verbal abuse and disrespect".
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer hailed "really good progress" on issues including visa-free travel and tariffs during talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday.
Pino Terzo Di Dio was in tears as firefighters carried his beloved parrots out of his home, which has been cordoned off as his town teeters on a cliff edge.
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