President Alexander Lukashenko says a reconciliatory deal with the US is on the cards, but it won't come at the expense of Belarus's relationship with Russia.
Staff Writers
Thailand has conducted more air strikes on Cambodia, targeting a warehouse storing rockets.
EU leaders are trying to persuade Brussels it won't be left to foot the bill if Russia sues them for using frozen assets to help the Ukraine war effort.
A UN report claims more than 1000 civilians were killed when Sudan's paramilitary group took over a Darfur displacement camp in April.
The United Nations has warned humanitarian assistance in Gaza has been reduced due to Israeli restrictions and are at risk of collapse.
Michelle Nichols
President Vladimir Putin says Russia will take more land in Ukraine by force if talks do not result in a peace deal.
The UN is distributing tents, blankets, and other supplies in Gaza but the risk of hypothermia is increasing after a week of torrential rain and winter cold.
WAFAA SHURAFA and MELANIE LIDMAN
US President Donald Trump has ordered a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, ramping up tensions with Caracas.
Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart and Shariq Khan
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says his country needs legally binding commitments as proposals for a peace deal are set to be presented to Russia.
M23 rebels have announced they will withdraw from Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
About 6000 Thai workers are stranded at a Cambodian border checkpoint, with authorities working out out how to get them home as clashes continue.
Panu Wongcha-um and Chayut Setboonsarng
More boats suspected of smuggling drugs have been hit by the US military, with three vessels targeted and eight people killed in the eastern Pacific.
US President Donald Trump says an agreement to end Russia's war on Ukraine is "closer than ever" after key leaders held talks in Berlin.
Andreas Rinke, Tom Balmforth and Steve Holland
Fighting continues in the long-running border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia despite US President Donald Trump saying he has brokered a new ceasefire.
Panu Wongcha-um
Syria's Interior Ministry has confirmed five people have been arrested, a day after a deadly attack in the central town of Palmyra.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has expressed willingness to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in exchange for Western security guarantees.
Friederike Heine, Matthias Williams and Olena Harmash
A negotiator for Hamas says Israel's killing of a militant commander threatens the "viability of the truce" in the Gaza Strip.
Nearly two dozen Philippine fishing boats have been targeted by Chinese coast guard ships which hit them with powerful water cannons in the South China Sea.
More than 400 people have been killed and 200,000 are displaced after Uvira, in eastern Congo, fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 paramilitary group.
The Associated Press
Police in Germany believe they have foiled a planned vehicle attack on a Christmas market in the southern state of Bavaria, with the arrest of five men.
A drone strike on a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan has left six peacekeepers dead, while eight others have been wounded.
Donald Trump has vowed to inflict "very serious retaliation" after an Islamic State ambush in Syria that killed three Americans.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine could relinquish its long-held ambition to join NATO as a safeguard against Russian attacks.
Friederike Heine, Matthias Williams, Olena Harmash
