"We can state that Russia is trying to drag out negotiations that could already have reached the final stage."

The Cuban foreign minister visited Moscow on Wednesday as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages caused by a U.S oil embargo. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and was set to meet later in the day with President Vladimir Putin.

Amid criticism over the board’s structure and broad mandate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. defended the board, saying “a new way” was needed to address the situation in Gaza.

Another opposition Conservative lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals

Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and conflicts.

Kim attended a ceremony Wednesday to mark the presenting of 600mm-caliber multiple rocket launchers to the Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday expressed hopes of deepening her relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and strengthen cooperation between the two countries in rare earths development and other areas of economic security when she visits Washington next month.

Eleven people have been arrested for a deadly attack on a far-right student activist at a protest last week in Lyon, France.