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Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country will apply for NATO membership. The conversation was initiated by Finland.

A COVID-19 surge in South Africa is being driven by omicron sub-variants, including BA.4 and BA.5. The World Health Organization (WHO) said there was no evidence that BA.4 was leading higher rates of hospitalization or death.

Russian troops are reportedly withdrawing from Ukraine's second-largest city. Kharkiv has been under assault since the start of the war.

Moscow is moving forward with its plan to annex the Ukrainian region of Kherson by carrying out a "rigged" election intended to manipulate local support for joining the Russia Federation, according to United Kingdom officials.

Rulers in the United Arab Emirates announced Saturday that they unanimously appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the president of this hereditarily ruled nation on the Arabian Peninsula.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko will act to defend itself should NATO deploy nuclear-capable weapons any closer to its border.

A U.S. think tank said Ukrainian forces “appear to have won the battle of Kharkiv" after they were able to expel Russian troops.

Police arrested two owners of a company that manufactures and sells security cameras after a massive fire reportedly started in their office in a four-story commercial building in the Indian capital, killing 27 people and injuring 12 others, police and fire officials said Saturday.

North Korea reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms on Saturday as the country looks to slow the spread of COVID.

Protests spread to more parts of Iran Friday, as ordinary Iranians demanded the government reinstate subsidies on food that have seen prices soar since they began earlier this week.

Russian officials have been accusing the West and others of being anti-Russian for a long time, but they appear to be ramping up their usage of the word as they press on with their war in Ukraine

A Russian lawmaker is warning Friday that recent comments from Poland’s leaders are encouraging Moscow to “put it in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine.”

Shanghai will attempt to reopen after the city has reached "elimination in society." The city reported 2,096 new COVID-19 cases on Friday.

Clashes erupted Friday in Jerusalem as mourners attended the burial of veteran American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot dead Friday when covering a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that his country does “not have a favorable opinion” about Sweden and Finland joining NATO, arguing that the Scandanavian countries are “guesthouses” for anti-Turkey “terrorist organizations.”

A former mercenary with the notorious Kremlin-linked Wagner Group claimed that Russia was ill-prepared for its war in Ukraine, reports said Friday.

More than 187,000 people are currently quarantined, and North Korean state media said one of the six people who died was infected by the omicron variant.

The United Kingdom on Friday hit Russian President Vladimir Putin's "inner circle" with a new round of sanctions on his ex-wife and rumored girlfriend as he continues his deadly war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops fighting Vladimir Putin’s army in eastern Ukraine have destroyed a “significant” number of Russian armored vehicles during a failed attempt at a river crossing by the invading forces, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense said Friday.

The United Arab Emirates' long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, died Friday, the government's state-run news agency announced in a brief statement. He was 73.