Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia over the past day killed at least 16 people, authorities said Sunday as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted new warnings about risks posed by attacks near the plant during Russia’s more than four-year invasion of its neighbor.

The civilian casualty toll in a recent wave of attacks blamed on Colombian narco-terrorists has risen to 20 dead and 36 injured, officials say.

The two leaders have served in coalition before, and will seek to unite a fragmented opposition with little in common beyond a shared hostility toward Netanyahu.

The small island nation, 90 miles from Florida, has played an outsized role in American foreign policy for nearly 70 years. As President Trump talks of "taking Cuba," tensions between Washington and Havana have outlived even the late dictator Fidel Castro.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sold a vision to Israelis as the country entered the war with Iran and invaded Lebanon. Iran's government would fall. Hezbollah would never again be able

Police in Northern Ireland said Sunday morning that the New IRA is believed to have been involved in a car bombing near a police station in Belfast.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and ​U.S. President Donald Trump ‌discussed the urgent need to get shipping moving again ​in the Strait ​of Hormuz during a call ⁠on Sunday, a Downing ​Street spokesperson said.

The first public trial in Syria of officials linked to the rule of former President Bashar Assad opened in Damascus Sunday. Atef Najib, a former Syrian army brigadier general who was head of the Political Security Branch in southern Syria’s Daraa province under Assad,