Saudi Arabia

The U.S. president met the former Islamist rebel for diplomatic talks in Saudi Arabia.

“I would fly there if I thought it would be helpful,” said the president, who is traveling this week to three Middle Eastern countries.

The president might end up with a luxury jumbo jet, but it won’t happen this week.

The two nuclear-armed countries agreed to start talks on a “broad set of issues at a neutral site,” U.S. says.

A deadly wave of avian influenza, industry-led policy and deepening ethical and biological risks are exposing flaws in the world’s most efficient meat machine.

Political forces — from Trump’s deprioritization of bribery to Britain’s dash for growth — mean the Serious Fraud Office is in a fight for relevance.

Military spending surged last year in ways unseen since the Cold War, study says.

The Vatican has not announced a date for the funeral. Hours before his death was announced early Monday, Francis met briefly on Sunday morning with Vice President JD Vance, a recent Catholic convert.

The U.K. wants to use an energy security summit next week to showcase its net zero push. Trump’s America just wants to sell fossil fuels.

British officials are on a diplomatic charm offensive to shore up trade ties — but securing meaningful deals will take more than just good will from the U.K. side.

The move would be a historic shift for France.

Topflight football clubs have been aggressively lobbying to get a new regulator watered down — as ministers insist it will be “light touch.”

Top leaders meeting in Paris want to show the U.S. and Russia can’t carve up the continent by cutting out the EU and Ukraine.

The region’s shipping safety has vexed the international community amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In seeking a historic peace accord between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump has presented himself as an agnostic arbiter focused only on bringing the three-year war …

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer promises more nuts-and-bolts talks on policing a Ukraine ceasefire.

With an $8.1 billion shortfall and the U.S. leading other Western countries in pulling support, the World Food Programme is making drastic aid cuts and scrambling to find donors.

Meeting comes amid efforts to reach ceasefire agreement and follows meeting of EU leaders on Thursday.

Ukraine isn’t dismissing the U.S. president’s latest plan to provide a semblance of long-term security — but says Russian troops must first leave a city near the plant.

Ukrainian president’s visit to Helsinki comes at a potentially defining moment in Russia’s war on his country.