The Ukrainian president says a three-day pause is over after fresh Russian attacks and US attempts to pressure Kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelensky made the announcement in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the United States.

BBC Ukraine Correspondent Dan Johnson is in Kyiv, where at least three people were killed in overnight strikes.

Asked whether Russia could use proceeds from the diesel deal to purchase more bombs, Trump sidestepped the question. "That's a ⁠diesel deal, not for us. That's being released in

North Korea’s wartime friendship with Russia grabs the headlines. But China is its true patron, propping up its despotic regime. The two did $2.7bn-worth of bilateral trade in 2025, up from $2.2bn the year before and not accounting for illicit deals kept off the books because of sanctions.

A new bridge linking China and North Korea has opened after more than a decade of delay It's being touted as a symbol of the neighbors' traditional friendship and it signals deeper ties between the co

China and North Korea officially marked the long-delayed opening of their most significant land border crossing on Thursday (October 15), aiming to rejuvenate trade and commerce after years of soured ties and pandemic-related suspension in exchange.

The New Yalu River Bridge spans 3km (1.9 miles) from the Chinese border city of Dandong to Sinuiju in North Korea A long-delayed road bridge linking China and North Korea has opened, Chinese state media report,

A Russian attack on Kyiv’s Desnianskyi district killed at least one person and injured more than 20, damaging residential buildings.

The fresh strikes follow ⁠earlier Russian ⁠attacks on ⁠the energy ​infrastructure in Ukraine as temperatures ​start ⁠to cool down with the heating season on the horizon. Reuters witnesses ⁠heard multiple explosions in Kyiv as air ⁠defences repelled overnight attacks.

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A ​series of explosions jolted the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the late evening. and Zelenskiy and his military said there had ​been no advance warning of the strikes. "Once again, no ⁠advance ⁠warning from our partners.

Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s most expensive and sophisticated arsenals, filled with American warplanes, missile defenses and other technology. But in recent days the kingdom has

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said a projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile struck the same terminal and killed 12 people.

Iran-backed Houthis launched missile and drone attacks across Saudi Arabia, targeting several cities, as oil giant Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in the east of the kingdom was hit.

Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on defense every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Houthi militants from Yemen.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “might have gone too far” in the war with Iran, while claiming U.S. military action had devastated Tehran’s

President Trump said the Iran war will end “very soon,” as he spoke to reporters in Kalispell, Montana, after a rally there ahead of midterms.

US President Donald Trump has made a stunning admission regarding the war with Iran.

Trump said so many Iranian leaders had been eliminated that he no longer knew who the U.S. was dealing with.