US President Donald Trump urged the Justice Department Friday to “embarrass” any Democrats who worked with Jeffrey Epstein after it began poring over millions of documents linked to the late sex offender.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart for the United States today and meet with President Donald Trump in Florida a day later, an Israeli official told AFP.

Russia pummelled Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with drones and missiles yesterday, killing one woman and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, ahead of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s latest talks with US leader Donald Trump.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's northeastern coast on Saturday, the island's weather agency said, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage

It comes after three days of border talks

A total of 1,802 flights were canceled and 22,349 delayed as of 4:04 p.m. ET

Now, questions remain concerning the strategy and details of the operation

Announcing the meeting, Zelenskiy said 'a lot can be decided before the New Year'

Five people were killed in an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs yesterday, Syrian state news agency SANA said.

The Israeli military announced a series of strikes on “Hezbollah targets” in Lebanon yesterday, including weapons depots and a training complex.

An Israeli reservist soldier rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian man as he prayed on a roadside in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, after earlier firing shots in the area, the Israeli military said.

UAE-backed separatists accused Saudi Arabia, the main backer of Yemen’s internationally-recognised government, of striking their positions in Hadramawt yesterday, a day after the kingdom urged them to return recently-seized territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide spoke to members of the US administration after Moscow received US proposals about a possible Ukrainian peace deal, the Kremlin said yesterday.

The United States carried out strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in northwest Nigeria at the request of Nigeria’s government, President Donald Trump and the US military said on Thursday, claiming the group had been targeting Christians in the region.

A major Gaza hospital has suspended several services because of a critical fuel shortage in the devastated Palestinian territory, which continues to face a severe humanitarian crisis, it said.

Malaysia’s influential former premier Najib Razak was jailed yesterday for a further 15 years and fined $2.8 billion for power abuse and money laundering in the biggest trial of the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a ruling that could have big political ramifications.

A couple were killed in southwest Niger this week after armed individuals fired into the air inside a church, locals told AFP yesterday.

Fresh clashes erupted yesterday near Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east between the M23 group and pro-government militia, local and security sources said.

Trump has warned of threat to Christians in West African country

Some 115 alleged members of the Islamic State group suspected of planning attacks during the end of year holidays have been arrested in Turkey, Istanbul’s prosecutor general said yesterday.