Trump holds firm as shutdown drags on; global tensions flare from Gaza to Ukraine. Here’s your Monday Morning Brief rundown, November 3, 2025.

Odesa has long been business center as well as a port city. In pre-Soviet times it attracted international financiers. Today it is generating renewed interest.

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the skies over Ukraine.

The European Union is 300,000 shells short of meeting its two-million target for military aid to Ukraine, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said. Speaking on Monday, Kallas urged member ...

The war in Ukraine is a pivotal arena for global power competition, intensifying the Russia-China axis and challenging the US ...

The Russian people must transcend centuries of indoctrination and figure out what it means to be no longer an empire.

For Putin, the Zaporizhzhia plant serves as a valuable asset, one that can be traded to extract concessions from the West ...

Audio clip A short time ago, an American aeroplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It is an atomic bomb. It ...

President Trump announced that he was imposing sanctions on Russia for the first time in his second term, underscoring his ...

The enlistment group followed him but was surrounded by approximately 18 workers, “who began resisting, threatening, and ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that he commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised Wednesday that "firepower" was coming for Ukraine amid speculation that Washington could hand Kyiv long-range Tomahawk missiles to pressure Russia to end the ...