A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border on Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials — including the former prime ministers of the U.K. and Sweden -- passed through, Ukraine’s state rail operator said.

Poland pledged increased security along its border with Ukraine after a wave of Russian drone strikes near the frontier, including two that landed within kilometers of Polish territory. The move came as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that Moscow appears poised to intensify its campaign against Ukraine’s borders with European countries.

Intent is hard to prove in conflict. The proof, to some degree, is an afterthought in the rubble – the damage is by then clear, as is the need for retaliation. Killing a former CIA chief on a railway platform would have provided some element of deniability for Russia;

A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after senior visiting officials, including the former prime ministers of the U.K. and Sweden, passed through.

Oil prices rose on Tuesday as concerns over supply disruptions persisted after attacks on Saudi Arabian energy infrastructure left the kingdom's East-West pipeline offline and cast doubt on efforts to ease ​shipping risks in the Gulf.

Oil prices climb above $103 after Saudi Arabia shuts its critical East-West pipeline following drone attacks, threatening roughly 4% of global supply as tensions intensify around key Middle East energy routes.

Saudi Arabia's closure of a major oil pipeline after a recent attack is raising fears that global energy markets in crisis because of the war with Iran could face even starker shortages, pushing prices higher for fuel and other essentials.

A key Saudi oil pipeline will remain largely out of service for weeks after being damaged in a drone attack, the Associated Press reported late Monday. Repairs to the pipeline, including damage at a major pumping facility,

Recent fighting between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces has displaced tens of thousands of families to camps in government-held areas.

As Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militants swept through ⁠the ⁠battered country's Red Sea coastline, ⁠thousands of panicked people fled to makeshift camps, adding to an already vast population ​of internally displaced people.

F OR MONTHS Saudi Arabia has talked up a possible new offensive against the Houthis, the Iran-backed rebels who control much of Yemen. The kingdom’s Yemeni allies promised they

The United States has deployed more than 100 American advisers—some reports up to about 200—to Saudi Arabia to provide intelligence, geospatial data, and real-time targeting support under a newly formed joint forces command to aid Saudi operations against Yemen’s Houthi forces.

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s next government remained uncertain on Monday as the national election inched toward a final result, with a thin lead for the left-wing opposition and an underwhelming performance by a hard-right anti-immigration party.

Sweden may face a long wait for a new government as preliminary election results on Monday showed a thin and still-uncertain lead for the left-leaning opposition, while a hard-right anti-immigration party saw its support slip.

Sweden's national election results showed a narrow lead early on Monday for the centre-left opposition over the ​right-wing government, which could halt the Nordic nation's drift away from its liberal heritage.

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China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has hit back at a call from the head of Anthropic for the U.S. to curb China’s artificial intelligence capabilities

President Donald Trump is playing down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence

Beijing’s own rules forbid it from creating superintelligence, unless superintelligence has socialist characteristics.

Democrats are increasingly attacking the administration's hands-off approach to artificial-intelligence regulation as midterms approach.