North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to likely fight against Ukraine, Pentagon says

BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday, in a move that Western leaders say will intensify the almost three-year war and jolt relations in the Indo-Pacific region. ...

Social Democrats win Lithuania's election, overcoming center-right government

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania' s center-left opposition parties celebrated victory on Monday after prevailing over the center-right ruling coalition in the final round of national elections. With 100% of votes counted from Sunday's polls, the Social Democrats won 52 seats in...

NATO confirms North Korean troops are being sent to Russia to fight Ukraine, with some already deployed

Vance calls Russia an American adversary but won't label Moscow as an enemy

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says Russia is a U.S. adversary but suggests it's counterproductive to approach Moscow as an enemy. The Ohio senator also said Donald Trump is committed to NATO, the transatlantic military alliance seen as the...

Britain and Germany sign defense pact to counter Russia's growing threat

LONDON (AP) — German submarine-hunting planes will patrol the North Atlantic from a base in Scotland under a new Britain-Germany defense pact sealed in response to the growing threat from Russia. Defense ministers from Britain and Germany signed the agreement in London on Wednesday...

Sweden will honor Blinken and others with knighthoods for their roles in its NATO accession

STOCKHOLM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg will be knighted in Sweden for their role in enabling the Scandinavian country to join the world's largest military alliance. It was a historic realignment of Europe’s post-Cold War...

Ukraine's Zelenskyy says only a US green light on a NATO invitation will sway a reluctant Germany

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president is hoping allies will take a more positive stance on his so-called “victory plan” after the U.S. election, but concedes that its key demand — an invitation to join NATO — is not welcome by some major Western partners, in particular Germany. ...

Ukraine’s ‘victory plan’ receives mixed reactions from Western allies

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plan to end Ukraine’s nearly three-year war with Russia has received mixed reactions from Western allies so far. The “victory plan” that Zelenskyy outlined at home and abroad includes a formal invitation for Ukraine to...

Russia flaunts its many doomsday weapons to keep the West from ramping up support for Ukraine

This year has seen President Vladimir Putin repeatedly brandish the nuclear sword, reminding everyone that Russia has the world’s largest atomic arsenal to try to deter the West from ramping up support for Ukraine. He ordered his military to hold drills involving battlefield...

Zelenskyy says 10,000 North Koreans could join Russian forces in Ukraine as he pushes 'victory plan'

BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his government has intelligence information that 10,000 troops from North Korea are being prepared to join Russian forces fighting against his country, warning that a third nation wading into the hostilities would turn the...