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Ankara had previously opposed to the Scandinavian countries' bids to join the alliance.

WASHINGTON — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that the world's most powerful military alliance reached a deal to admit Sweden and Finland after resolving the concerns of holdout Turkey. Previously, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would not approve the NATO applications of both Sweden and Finland. The push to add Sweden and Finland to the world's most powerful military alliance comes as Russia's assault on Ukraine amplifies fears of other countries in the region. Both Finland and Sweden already meet many of the requirements to be NATO members. However, all 30 NATO members must approve a country's bid for it to be accepted into the alliance.

German police have conducted raids across the country targeting individuals and premises linked to a banned Islamic extremist group

Russia on Tuesday announced that it was banning the wife and daughter of President Joe Biden from entering the country, in response to widening sanctions against Russia

The head of the European Central Bank says it will move gradually to combat soaring consumer prices with interest rate hikes in July and September but will keep its options open to “stamp out” inflation if it surges faster than expected.

The Group of Seven developed economies are wrapping up a summit that aims to demonstrate a long-term commitment to Ukraine’s future, as its war with Russia grinds on

A four-story residential building has collapsed in the Indian city of Mumbai and at least three people died

The meeting comes a day after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that alliance forces kept at a high readiness level will increase sharply.

Jordan’s state-run TV says a poisonous gas leak in the southern port city of Aqaba has killed at least five people and injured 234

Under pressure to be united against Russia, the West promises support "for as long as it takes".

Kosovo prosecutors have charged a man with war crimes for allegedly being part of a group of Serbian forces that executed at least nine ethnic Albanian civilians during the country’s 1998-1999 war

Heavy rains in northwest Turkey have caused rivers to overflow and bridges to collapse as authorities work to evacuate stranded locals

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance wants to increase the size of its rapid reaction forces from the current 40,000 to over 300,000

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance wants to increase the strength of its rapid reaction forces from the current 40,000 to over 300,000.

Jens Stoltenberg said the increase followed a direct threat from Russia to European security.

NATO leaders are preparing to convene in Madrid to decide on the so-called Strategic Concept, the 30-member alliance's most important document.

The youngest victim at the Enyobeni Tavern in the city of East London was 13, police said.

A bullet train has collided with an engine in a railway station in northeastern Czech Republic, killing one person and injuring five

Russia appears to have defaulted on foreign-currency debt for the first time in over a century. But it does not consider itself in default because its payments have been blocked by Western sanctions.

Police say they have discovered more than 110 dangerous snakes on a farm in central Germany after a woman who lived there sought medical treatment for a poisonous bite

Explorers say they found the wreckage of the USS Samuel B

A growing number of couples in Ukraine are speedily turning love into matrimony because of the war with Russia.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion is a worrying setback that could lead to the removal of other rights Americans have

Food prices are up 10%, new vehicles 12.5% and gasoline almost 50% compared to last year, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Norwegian police say two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting in Oslo

This Friday, we're looking at fast-food companies who are still hanging on in Russia. Juul getting banned. And as a cherry on top, THE Ohio State University deciding to patent you guessed it, "the."

New York City is making the monkeypox vaccine available to more people as the amount of cases continues to increase in the U.S. Now, groups of at-risk men who have had multiple male sex partners, or anonymous sex in the past two weeks, are eligible to receive a dose. Dr. Celine Gounder, the editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News and an infectious disease expert and epidemiologist at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue hospital, has more on what health officials are doing to combat the spread.

Bulgaria’s parliament has voted to lift a veto that has long blocked European Union membership negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania.

The head of the United Nations has warned the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.

Oil prices have been dropping in the past month despite a market that's still tight, while Europe's tensions with Russia are keeping energy supply on a leash.

A Russian soldier is tried in his absence for rape and Ukraine moves closer to EU membership.

Michael Gableman, the ex-Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired to investigate Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the battleground state, testified that he routinely deleted records, and he deactivated a personal email account.

We believe the price action in many crucial commodity inputs points to a better risk-reward in the market.

Thousands of people, mostly women, were convicted in Scotland under the Witchcraft Act of 1563.

Lawmakers have long worried that suspending the gas tax would allow oil companies to reap additional profits.

Lawmakers have long worried that suspending the gas tax would allow oil companies to reap additional profits.

Since the war in Ukraine started, a number of foreign fighters, including U.S. citizens, have entered the country to help fight against the Russian forces. Now four months into the conflict, at least two American veterans fighting alongside the Ukrainian military have been captured — but the Kremlin claims international laws regarding prisoners of war don’t apply. Matthew Schmidt, the program coordinator for international affairs and an associate professor of national security at the University of New Haven, explains the legality of U.S. citizens fighting in foreign wars and the laws protecting captured soldiers.

Violent protests by Indigenous people demanding a variety of changes, including lower fuel prices, have paralyzed Ecuador's capital and other regions, but the government on Wednesday rejected their conditions for dialogue. (June 21-22)

AccuWeather's Michelle Rotella has the details of what you can expect at some of the biggest sports events across the country from June 23-26.

Panama’s security minister says the number of migrants crossing the dangerous Darien Gap has grown substantially

CBS News has obtained two photos from British documentary filmmaker Alex Holder's three-part series "Unprecedented." Holder interviewed President Trump and Ivanka Trump and gave footage of Trump family interviews to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. Robert Costa has the details.

The prime minister says talk of a blockade is untrue and a tiny amount of goods are affected.

A diplomatic row at the bottom of the world is playing out between the normally allied U.S. and U.K. governments in response to provocations from Russia.

The International Energy Agency warns that Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter.

Syrian state TV says the international airport in Syria’s capital will resume flights after nearly two weeks following an Israeli airstrike that caused serious damage to the facility

The conflict in Ukraine has “sounded an alarm for humanity,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Wednesday, as China continues to assume a position of neutrality while backing its ally Russia. China has refused to criticize Russia's war in Ukraine or even to refer to it as an invasion in deference to Moscow, while also condemning U.S.-led sanctions against Russia and accusing the West of provoking Moscow.

Some former McDonald's restaurants in Russia are selling Big Macs under a different name and are using packaging with its branding, Reuters reported.

The increase is in line with analysts' expectations and comes as the Bank of England says inflation could hit 11% in October, when a cap on domestic energy bills is lifted.

Britain’s inflation rate hit 9.1% in May, a new 40-year high and up slightly on the previous month.

Afghanistan’s state-run news agency is reporting that at least 155 people have been killed in an earthquake in the country’s eastern Paktika province

A former Puerto Rico mayor who vanished earlier this year while still in his position has pleaded guilty in a federal corruption case

Elite swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk doesn’t know if his father was able to see him winning a medal for Ukraine at the swimming world championships.

Republican Gabriel Sterling, a top election official in Georgia, testified on Tuesday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Sterling disproved a conspiracy theory that was pushed by then-President Donald Trump and his lead attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that fake ballots were pulled from a suitcase to help Joe Biden win the 2020 election.

President Joe Biden’s administration says it's restricting the use of anti-personnel land mines by the U.S. military, aligning more closely with an international treaty banning the deadly explosives.

Police say a stabbing in a shopping mall west of the Swedish capital has left at least two people wounded, one with life-threatening injuries

Nuclear Russia's pillaging of non-nuclear Ukraine is rattling what's already a destabilizing moment in nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook Taiwan on Monday morning

Mexico’s Navy Department says a marine stationed at a base on the Baja California peninsula opened fire, killing two fellow marines and a female civilian

Witnesses and an official say three people have been shot dead in northwestern Nigeria after gunmen attacked two churches in the troubled region

A new ambassador from Bahrain has formally taken up his post in Syria, the country’s first full diplomatic mission there in more than a decade as Damascus continues to improve its relations with Gulf Arab states

President Joe Biden sat down with The Associated Press to discuss the state of the economy, his concerns about the national mood, and his commitment to standing up to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

Soaring gasoline prices have left many consumers with no choice but to cut spending on non-essentials, but it might be coming full circle by stopping some drivers from filling up their tanks.

The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.

An airline industry group is criticizing the European Union's Parliament for seeking to expand its emissions trading system to long-haul flights.

The average cost of filling up a typical family car has exceeded 100 pounds, or $125, for the first time in Britain as Russia’s war in Ukraine drives gasoline prices higher.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia as investors watch for fresh signs of inflation.

China and Russia have defended their vetoes of a strongly backed U.S. resolution that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Russia’s war in Ukraine and the energy and food crises it worsened will severely drag down global economic growth and push up inflation this year.

The World Bank has sharply downgraded its outlook for the global economy, pointing to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the prospect of widespread food shortages and concerns about the potential return of “stagflation” — a toxic mix of high inflation and sluggish growth unseen for more than four decades.

Gas prices have jumped again in Michigan and Metro Detroit as the current average of $4.97 is 13 cents higher than Thursday (June 2).

Gas prices here in Michigan have gone from worse to terrible in just a matter of days. The state-wide average is $4.93 a gallon. That’s almost 40 cents more than just last week, and it gets even worse from there. Seen in the video player above is a video sent to Local 4 from Mackinaw City with gas prices of $5.19 for a gallon of regular, and prices aren’t expected to stop rising.

Barring an end to the war in Ukraine, athletes from Russia and Belarus will be banned from next month’s track and field world championships.

Marin Cilic has dominated a fifth-set tiebreaker against seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev to advance to his first French Open semifinal.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is aiming to lead the international bloc opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into a broader coalition to counter what it sees as a more serious, long-term threat to global order from China.

The risks to the global economy are leading to an increasingly gloomy view of the months ahead for corporate leaders, government officials and other VIPs gathered at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

A senior Turkish official says Turkey will not agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO without “concrete steps in a certain timeframe” to address Ankara’s concerns.

Joe Biden spent his first presidential trip to Asia strengthening economic and military commitments.

Lesia Tsurenko is a professional tennis player from Ukraine who is trying to carry on with her career while her country is being invaded by Russia.

The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program is telling billionaires it’s “time to step up” as the global threat of food insecurity rises because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

A Michigan man who was being held captive by Russian forces on accusations of being a U.S. spy has been reunited with his family after a rescue mission that included an 18-hour race across Ukraine, officials said.

The women's and men’s professional tennis tours say they will not award ranking points for Wimbledon this year because of the All England Club’s ban on players from Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine.

Russian DJ Nina Kraviz will no longer perform at Detroit’s Movement Electronic Music Festival next weekend, event organizers announced Thursday, two days after local Ukrainians issued a letter demanding the DJ to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A high school student from Ukraine who won’t return home because of war will stay in Michigan and start college.

Russian DJ Nina Kraviz, who is headlining an electronic music festival in Detroit this month, has been asked by Ukrainian Americans living in Metro Detroit to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin as his forces continue their attacks in Ukraine.

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed civilian.

The State Department said Tuesday that it still pushing to have regular contact with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for nearly three months.

Scotland's leader says the Russian war in Ukraine only makes Scotland’s drive for independence from the U.K. more important.

A Michigan man who was being held captive by Russian forces on accusations of being a U.S. spy has been reunited with his family after a rescue mission that included an 18-hour race across Ukraine, officials said.

A jury has been picked in the trial of a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign who is accused of lying to the FBI as it investigated potential ties between Donald Trump and Russia in 2016.

Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov sits down with us to discuss the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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Iran has abruptly raised prices as much as 300% for a variety of staples like oil, chicken, milk and eggs.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of slowing down, Ukrainians across their country to to heal as the bury the dead and salvage what is left of villages, towns and cities that have been destroyed by Russians.

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven wealthy nations have gathered in northern Germany for a three-day meeting centered on Russia’s war against Ukraine and the wider impact it is having around the world.

The Senate has confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

The Federal Reserve no longer views the coronavirus pandemic as the biggest threat to the global financial system.

Pale and drawn, the last civilians sheltering in the bunkers beneath the sprawling steel mill in the decimated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol arrived late Sunday night in Zaporizhzhia, the first major Ukrainian city beyond the frontline.

The world’s biggest shipping company, Denmark’s A.

Russian forces pounded targets across Ukraine, taking aim at supply lines for foreign weapons in the west and intensifying an offensive in the east, as the European Union moved Wednesday to further punish Moscow for the war with a proposed ban on oil imports.

Germany and India have signed a series of bilateral agreements that will see the South Asian nation receive 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in aid by 2030 to boost the use of clean energy.