The European Union's decision to make Ukraine a candidate for EU membership has offered war-weary Ukrainians a morale boost.

British officials said the monkeypox outbreak in the U.K. is growing across the country mainly among men who are gay or bisexual or other men who have sex with men.

Leaders of Commonwealth nations are meeting in Rwanda's capital to tackle climate change, tropical diseases and other challenges deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This sets in motion a potentially years-long process that could draw the embattled country further away from Russia's influence and bind it more closely to the West.

A Ukrainian deputy prime minister overseeing the country's push to join the European Union says she's "100%" certain all 27 EU nations will approve making Ukraine a candidate for membership.

Afghanistan's state-run news agency reported a powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of the country's east, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more.

A series of clandestine, against-the-odds helicopter missions to reach besieged soldiers are being celebrated in Ukraine as one of the riskiest, most heroic feats of military derring-do in the four-month war against Russia.

A court in the Russian capital has extended the arrest of a municipal legislator charged with discrediting the country's military after his criticism of Russia's military action in Ukraine.

Despite the heavy influx of weapons from the West, Ukrainian forces are outgunned by the Russians in the battle for the eastern Donbas region.

Israel's weakened coalition government has announced that it will dissolve parliament and call new elections.

A Japanese court has ruled that the country's ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the constitution.

Around the world, drivers are looking at the numbers on the gas pump and rethinking their habits and finances.

World swimming’s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events, starting Monday.

Russian state television has shown video of two U.S. military veterans who went missing last week while fighting in Ukraine.

The European Union's executive arm recommended putting Ukraine on a path to membership.

Water is so low in large stretches of Italy's largest river that local residents are walking through the middle of the expanse of sand and shipwrecks are resurfacing.

Four European leaders expressed support for Ukraine while meeting in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowing to back the country's candidacy to eventually join the European Union.

Rich countries have pushed back against efforts to put financial help for poor nations suffering the devastating effects of global warming firmly on the agenda for this year's U.N. climate summit.

Australia's new government has formally committed to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 43% by the end of the decade in fulfillment of a key election pledge.

Scientists say they've found a group of polar bears in Southeast Greenland that seem to have stumbled on an icy oasis that might allow their small distinct population to hang on.

A governor says Russian forces control about 80% of the key Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk.

A former Kurdish rebel fighter turned Swedish lawmaker has emerged as a central figure in the drama surrounding Sweden and Finland's historic bid to join NATO.

Day after day, Russia is pounding the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor.

Southern Iraq's Lake Sawa has dried up for the first time in its centuries-long history.

The European Space Agency has released a trove of data on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way.