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Russian missile strikes on a neighborhood in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa killed at least 21 people, some of them children, according to Ukrainian officials. The overnight attack—the latest in a surge of Russian strikes—was launched from a strategic bomber over the Black Sea hours after the conclusion of…

Incumbent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is leading Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke by 8 points among likely voters in the state’s gubernatorial race, a new poll has found. According to a CBS News-YouGov poll released Thursday, Abbott is leading O’Rourke 49 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, despite the majority…

Some are arguing that we are in the midst of a crash that cryptocurrency won't be able emerge from. Bitcoin price fell 40% in the last month while more and more smaller currencies that emerged during the hype are being identified as scams. One of the most prominent examples would…

Author of the article: LONDON — A metallic NATO is starting to take shape, though no-one is calling it that just yet. The Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) is in theory open to all countries that are committed to “responsible critical mineral supply chains to support economic prosperity and climate objectives.”…

Video The president spoke on the last day of the NATO summit in Madrid and said that Americans could expect to continue paying higher gasoline prices for “as long as it takes.”CreditCredit...Kenny Holston for The New York TimesAfter days in which the West has sought to present a muscular and…

LONDON — Permanent American forces stationed in Poland, hundreds of thousands of troops on high alert, and a formal invite for two new Nordic members: If Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in part to ward off NATO, Wednesday made clear his war has achieved the opposite. NATO has now…

Finland and Sweden, who have sought to join NATO in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were formally invited to join the alliance on Wednesday. Driving the news: The announcement comes just a day after Turkey — which had held up their bids to join — agreed to lift…

Placeholder while article actions load MADRID — The Latest on the G-7 summit, the annual meeting of the leading democratic economies, which this year is being held in the Bavarian Alps in Germany; and on the NATO summit in Madrid, where leaders begin gathering later Tuesday: ___ Kyiv mayor Vitali…

ELMAU, Germany (AP) - The Latest on the G-7 summit, the annual meeting of the leading democratic economies, which this year is being held in the Bavarian Alps in Germany; and on the NATO summit in Madrid, where leaders begin gathering later Tuesday: ___ The Group of Seven developed economies…

The new “strategic concept”, to be signed off at the Madrid summit which begins on Tuesday, would define its goals and approaches for the next decade, and agree a vastly expanded plan to defend its easternmost allies in response to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. That will include…