The information about 600,000 people leaving Kyiv after the shelling on January 9 has not been confirmed by any unit of the Kyiv City Military Administration.

The US pop superstar is among nine songwriters who have been inducted into the 2026 class.

The Senate of the Czech Republic has expressed its support for Ukraine and distanced itself from the scandalous statements made by Tomio Okamura, speaker of the lower house of parliament.

The BBC’s Faisal Islam was in the room when President Trump told his audience that he would not use force in Greenland, but also launched a long argument for why the US should own it.

Russian troops shelled the Kherson region with artillery, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems, and drones throughout the day, killing one person and injuring another.

About 19,000 civilians, including 200 children, remain in the shelled town of Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast, where the situation is currently the most difficult.

Japan restarts a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after the Fukushima meltdown.

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

Pilots from the Pentagon Battalion’s interceptors shot down a Russian Knyaz Veshchy Oleg reconnaissance drone, the cutting-edge development from the aggressor country, in the skies over Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region.

The Polish government is changing the rules for providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees. A special law introduced after the start of the war in Ukraine is gradually being rolled back, and access to medical services will be limited.