Hello Kitty seems an unlikely trigger for an immigration debate, but that is what happened in Japan this week when Megumi Hayashibara, a prominent voice actress behind icons from Hello Kitty to the ...

Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to sit down on Monday (June 2, 2025) in the Turkish city of Istanbul for their second round of direct peace talks since 2022, but the two sides are still ...

MOSCOW and KYIV — Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Istanbul Monday for a second round of peace negotiations, only a day after a series of surprise Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian air ...

Doga Kobo, the same studio behind the mega-hit Oshi no Ko, has shared posters and footage for its upcoming anime series.

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a new prisoner swap and the return of thousands of war dead during direct talks in Istanbul although little headway was made towards ending the war. The ...

A much-awaited meeting between the Ukrainian government delegation and their Russian counterparts, on Monday, ended within an hour and with little progress in negotiating the end to the war that ...

CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine began a major prisoner exchange Friday, swapping hundreds of soldiers and civilians in the first phase of an exchange that was a moment of ...

On May 17, Kazakh journalist Irina Mednikova was unexpectedly barred from boarding a flight to Russia at Almaty airport. At the counter, she was informed she had been declared “undesirable” by ...

Russia and Ukraine have completed the first phase of what is expected to be the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the war, with almost 800 people released on Friday. The swap started on ...

After too many nights of pulling children from the rubble of Russian drone strikes, the weekend’s devastating attacks on Moscow’s military pride mark a moment of brief respite for Ukrainian ...

Ukraine has repeatedly rejected the Russian conditions as tantamount to surrender. ISTANBUL − Russia told Ukraine at peace talks that it would only agree to end the war if Kyiv gives up big new ...

For months, even as its forces were losing ground on the battlefield at home, the Ukrainian military was planning a stunning assault deep in Russian soil. On Sunday, remotely operated Ukrainian ...