Russian State Duma elections will be held in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia amid accusations of armed voter intimidation.

The outcome of Russia’s parliamentary election is all but assured, with the main Kremlin party poised to retain its overwhelming grip on the lower house

Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance.

The liberal Yabloko party, the only registered political entity that dared to criticize the Ukraine war, was removed from the ballot last month.

US ⁠President ⁠Donald Trump on ⁠Friday signed the sweeping Russia sanctions ​bill into law, the White House said ‌in a statement, paving ‌the way for increased economic ⁠pressure on ⁠Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

The House passed a Russia sanctions bill backed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, targeting Russia over the war in Ukraine.

The measure sanctions Russian officials, banks and a shadow fleet of tankers that keeps Russian energy moving. It also directs Trump to impose up to 100% tariffs on the top five i

The House passed the sweeping Russia sanctions bill long championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday, sending the legislation to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature after more than a year of congressional maneuvering.

The US war with Iran has cost $45.1 billion, the Pentagon informed Congress on Friday, according to one source familiar with the matter.

The House adopted a resolution to curb the president's war powers by a vote of 220-204 on Tuesday night, the sixth time the House has passed a resolution recently.

Shortly after the United States launched into a war with Iran, White House economic adviser Peter Navarro boldly proclaimed that the conflict would "lower energy prices." More than six months later—with the war still raging on and the Trump administration ignoring congressional demands to end it—that's turned out to be as laughably false as the promise that the whole thing would be wrapped up in a few weeks.

Average prices for diesel and gas in the United States have reached record highs during the prolonged conflict with Iran. President Trump emphasizes that the economic burden should be seen in the context of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons,

A shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines has left two 14-year-old students and the teenage gunman dead. Local officials say at least eight people were wounded. The shooting occurred

The suspected shooter, a student at the school, also died, officials said. It was the third high-profile school shooting in the Philippines in recent months.

Three students were killed in a school shooting in the southern Philippines on Friday, including a 16-year-old suspected gunman who turned the gun on himself, provincial officials said.

MANILA >> A 16-year-old student shot dead at least two fellow students and then killed himself at a school in the southern Philippines on Friday, provincial officials said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has returned from Europe and cast Canada as moving quickly beyond its historic reliance on the United States. His comments come after a whirlwind week in which

Both the EU and Canada have been facing stiff rivalry and pressure from Trump's administration on trade and from an increasingly assertive China.

Canada isn’t likely to join the European Union anytime soon. But President Donald Trump’s immediate and draconian threat on Wednesday to impose “serious tariffs” or cease trading with Europe if it does underscores how seriously the administration regards efforts from other countries to band together and counter U.

"If I think it's at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things," Trump threatened.

Japan’s central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year-high. The Bank of Japan has been trying to normalize monetary policy after decades of keeping interest rates near or below zero to try to encourage more borrowing and spending to counter deflation and pull Japan’s economy out of the doldrums.

Japan’s central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year-high. View on euronews

The Bank of Japan delivered the fastest rate increase of its current cycle to counter persistent inflation and ease the impact of a weak yen.

The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25%, and markets will be watching Governor Kazuo Ueda's remarks for ​clues on the timing of further increases to counter inflation.