The historic first marks a milestone in Washington’s bid to replace Russia as Europe’s top source of natural gas.

US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, took part in a confirmation hearing with lawmakers on Thursday. He said additional sanctions on Russia could be imposed to help end the war in Ukraine.

High-ranking sources told independent Russian outlet Meduza that Russia's elites are disappointed the Ukraine war didn't end in 2024 and feel fatigue.

The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to grow a little faster and inflation to keep falling this year. But it warned that the outlook is clouded by President-elect Donald Trump's promises to cut U.

Romania's Defense Ministry confirmed on Jan. 17 that it had found Russian drone fragments in two communities situated on the Romania-Ukraine border.

Biden’s Weak Hand-Off “Biden is handing over a world that is running perilously amok under a permissive environment that began with his disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan,” thunder Jonathan Sweet & Mark Toth at The Hill.

The International Monetary Fund raised its estimate for full-year U.S. growth in 2025 to 2.7%, up from 2.2%, while forecasts for big European economies and Canada were reduced.

The partnership, according to officials who spoke to ABC News, has been essential to Ukraine defending itself as Russia invaded almost three years ago.

This information was intended to be used by the Ukrainian military to deliver strikes at Russian military facilities, the press office said

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed flaws and fragility in the country’s energy infrastructure, much of it a legacy of the Soviet era. Centralized and inefficient, Ukraine’s energy system relied greatly on coal-powered plants and was proving inadequate even before Russian attacks damaged or destroyed critical infrastructure.