U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wanted a peace deal with Iran, after the United States joined Israel in striking the Islamic republic's nuclear sites during a brief war earlier this year.
"They got it from one side, from the other, and you know it would be great if we could make a peace deal with them," Trump said of Iran during a speech to Israel's parliament.

Top Ukrainian officials were traveling to Washington for defense talks with U.S. officials, the presidential office said Monday, as Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine's energy grid and Washington weighs the delivery of long-range missiles.
The team, led by Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, will discuss "strengthening our air defense and strike capabilities" and "enhancing (energy) resilience before winter," Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on social media.

The European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Monday that Russia was "gambling with war", after a spate of Russian drones and military jets crossing into the bloc's airspace.
"Every time a Russian drone or plane violates our airspace, there is a risk of escalation, unintended or not. Russia is gambling with war," she said during a visit to Kyiv, calling on Europe needs to beef up its defense capabilities.

President Donald Trump has warned Russia that he may send Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles if Moscow doesn't settle its war there soon — suggesting that he could be ready to increase the pressure on Vladimir Putin's government using a key weapons system.
"I might say, 'Look: if this war is not going to get settled, I'm going to send them Tomahawks," Trump told reporters on Sunday aboard Air Force One as he flew to Israel. "The Tomahawk is an incredible weapon, very offensive weapon. And honestly, Russia does not need that."

The death toll from Mexico's torrential rains rose to 47 on Sunday as the fallout mounted from flooding and landslides in different states around the country, as the authorities were rushing to help affected residents, look for missing people and try to clean several areas.
Days after heavy rains drenched several parts of Mexico, the country saw over the weekend the extension of devastation in some states, where the flooding swept away vehicles and destroyed houses and roads.

Britain, France and Germany will seek to restart stalled nuclear talks with Iran and the United States, the three European countries said in a joint statement on Friday.

The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to Venezuela's opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, forced to live in hiding in what has become a "brutal" state, the Nobel jury said.

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia's air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first admission of responsibility for the crash in an effort to ease tensions between the neighbors.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Donald Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, hours after the US president announced a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas.
"Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize -- he deserves it!" said a post on the official X account of the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel.

Ukraine announced on Thursday it was ordering the evacuation of children and their guardians from towns and villages in and around the eastern frontline city of Kramatorsk, citing an uptick in Russian drone attacks.
"Due to the deterioration of the security situation in certain areas of the Kramatorsk city community, the mandatory evacuation of families with children has been announced," the city council announced in a statement on social media.
