Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia ...

Luoyang fire kills 300 in China; Castro Cuban CP holds first congress; US backs French colonial war in Vietnam; Communist ...

A host of figures from the world of sport died in 2025. Here, we remember some of those sporting names. Tiger Bech: The ...

Today in History for Dec. 17: In 1538, England's King Henry VIII was excommunicated by Pope Paul III. Married and divorced several times, Henry declared himself head of the Church of England. In 1777, ...

MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he had not reached agreement on Donald Trump's peace deal as he ruled out ceding territory to Russia. “There are visions of the US, Russia and Ukraine ...

President Trump said in an interview Monday that Ukraine should hold new elections despite its ongoing war with Russia — prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to declare he’s “ready” for ...

Economic and military pressures could force Russia’s hand. Its economy is strained but not enough to do that, analysts say. And President Vladimir V. Putin says Russia is winning the war. By Neil ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ratcheted up tensions with Europe on Tuesday, warning that if the bloc sparked a war with Russia, Moscow was prepared to meet it. Putin also blasted European leaders, ...

NATO's Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned that United States security depends on a strong NATO and a safe Europe. "You cannot defend the U.S. without an Arctic which is defended, and for the ...

Ukraine said Thursday its long-range drones had struck a major offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea this week, in a previously undisclosed mission that signals a new expansion of its target list ...