On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the United States to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. The call came after a new escalation in the conflict and follows the fiercest attacks on Kiev in recent years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to show a lot of creativity to get people to continue his war in Ukraine. After deploying soldiers from North Korea and Africa, recruiting serious criminals with the promise of a clean criminal record after completing a military mission and lowering the minimum age as well as raising the maximum age of recruits, the Kremlin has now found another way to go about it.
In Laos, seven men are still trapped in an underground, flooded gold mine. Rescue efforts are hampered by narrow passages, strong currents and persistent rain.
On June 14, Switzerland will vote on the so-called "sustainability initiative" of the right-conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP). The plan aims to reduce the population to 10 million by 2050. This is reported by Der Spiegel.
Two swimmers died on Sunday on the southwest coast of France after being swept away by a powerful sea current. The incidents occurred in Lacanau and Lège-Cap-Ferret, in the Gironde department. A warning about dangerous currents was in effect this weekend.
Russia's FSB security service said on Monday it had foiled an attempted "terrorist attack" after agents said they had discovered magnetic explosives attached to the hull of a tanker that had arrived from Belgium and was docked for loading at the northwestern port of Ust-Luga.
A Royal Air Force jet with current British defense minister John Healey on board was confronted with severe GPS malfunctions for three hours.
The public prosecutor's office in Rennes, Brittany, France, has opened a murder investigation after the lifeless body of a boy of 12 was found on Sunday.
Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday. In it, he outlines his desire to protect human dignity and freedom of choice in an age of artificial intelligence.
Two Austrian tourists, a 55-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman, were killed on Sunday when a suspension bridge collapsed near the Cunca Wulang waterfall on the Indonesian island of Flores.