The long-awaited decision came after U.S. officials revealed Tuesday a preliminary agreement for the United States to send M1 Abrams tanks to help Ukraine's troops push back Russian forces.

The world is 90 seconds away from “midnight,” according to the Doomsday Clock, the closest it has ever been to the symbolic hour of apocalypse.

Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny placed a replica of the tiny "punishment cell" he has repeatedly been held in outside Russia's embassy in Berlin in an effort to raise awareness of his fate.

Russian teams are banned from UEFA and FIFA competitions during the war in Ukraine and there currently is no way back from those decisions that were upheld at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said.

Around 50,000 Syrians and Iraqis are crowded into tents in the fenced-in al-Hol camp. Nearly 20,000 of them are children; the rest are mostly the wives or widows of ISIS fighters.

Gen. Said Chanegriha met Monday with President Emmanuel Macron, the Elysee Palace said, ahead of a meeting Tuesday with French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

The survey of more than 1,400 soldiers, published Tuesday in JAMA Psychiatry, found that one in eight soldiers reported being bullied or hazed during their deployments.

The treasure hunt began this year when the Dutch National Archive published — as it does every January — thousands of documents for historians to pore over.

Vatican City is the last European government to have diplomatic relations with Taiwan instead of Beijing, although the United States and other Western nations maintain extensive informal ties.

In all, four deputy ministers and five governors of provinces on the war's front line were set to leave their posts, the country's cabinet secretary said on the Telegram messaging app.

Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto later backpedaled, but his comments were the first time a leading government official in either Nordic country appeared to raise doubts about becoming NATO members together.

Berlin is also inching toward a decision on sending its own Leopards to Ukraine, Germany’s top defense official said.

A Russian frigate, armed with hypersonic missiles, will exercise off the African coast with the Chinese and South African navies, according to a report by a Russian news agency.

Canberra is accelerating plans to buy high-tech underwater weapons to protect ports, trade routes and communication lines from "potential aggressors," according to the Australian Defence Department.

Recent successes by Ukrainian fighters in the Bakhmut area have prompted Moscow to send in reinforcements, said a senior U.S. military official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The group had planned to blow up power infrastructure, “trigger civil warlike conditions” and overthrow democracy, Germany’s public prosecutor said.

Germany appears to be inching toward approving deliveries of high-tech Leopard 2 main battle tanks that Ukraine and its biggest Western backers hope will boost Kyiv's fight against Russian invaders.

The network will livestream next weekend’s NFC and AFC championship games and the Super Bowl on Feb. 12 after successfully testing the live function last weekend, AFN officials said.