Russia has amassed a large force of tens of thousands — including recently arrived North Korean troops — to carry out an assault on the Ukrainian positions in Russia’s Kursk region expected in the coming days,

Palestinians are reckoning with an incoming U.S. president who expressed near unreserved backing for Israel in his first term. Abbas, who once barred senior Palestinian officials from communicating with the Trump administration, recently spoke to Trump by phone, and they discussed the possibility of meeting.