China's President Xi Jinping visits Egypt this week for the first time in a decade. The trip illustrates China's growing ambitions at a time when U.S. influence has been weakened by its war in Iran.

The Russian president's remarks at a 3 a.m. news conference — and Moscow's intensifying strikes on Kyiv — suggested that he sees little chance of a deal to end his war in Ukraine.

Maryna, 37, spoke with NBC News minutes after undergoing a cesarean section in the hospital in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.

Russia will shutter German cultural centers across the country, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. The move comes after Berlin blamed Moscow for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month and announced the closure of both the Russian Consulate in Bonn and the Russian House cultural center in the German capital.

The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.

Life has changed recently in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Residents there had gotten used to periodic Russian airstrikes happening maybe once or twice a week. But now the attacks are more constant using drones,

Nepal's death toll from a devastating flash flood one week ago stands at 1,114 Wednesday, with 3,916 still missing, authorities said Wednesday.

Russians have experienced a summer of turmoil because of the war in Ukraine. Swarms of buzzing drones have hit oil refineries, triggering a gasoline shortage. Online retailers have had