Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has blasted the country’s political leadership and the conduct of its military, saying he is no longer able to defend Israel against accusations of war crimes.

The BBC reports from Donetsk where swarms of fibre optic drones give Russia the edge as Ukraine defends towns behind the front line.

Trump called Putin 'crazy' over the weekend and said May 27 he's 'playing with fire' as he continues to bombard Ukraine during peace negotiations.

And it meant Kuleba’s new rescue, a gray French bulldog named Marik, scooped from the wreckage of the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, would spend the next couple of years overhearing foreign policy discussions as he waddled around the office. Such an arrangement might seem unusual for a foreign minister — but not in wartime Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has met with new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin. The talks on Wednesday came amid an escalation in Russia’s bombing campaign despite U.S.

Moscow has expanded military recruitment and boosted weapons production. Peace could jeopardize the resulting economic gains.

An airsoft event revealed to a reporter a “strange level of dissonance” among participants, some of whom wore the uniforms of Russian soldiers.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian army whistleblower David McBride, who leaked allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan to the media, lost a court bid to have his prison sentence reduced on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump escalated his war with Harvard University on Wednesday, accusing it of "treating the country with great disrespect" and suggesting that it should stop fighting his policies. "But Harvard wants to fight.