It was like snakes and ladders,” Anjana Raja said. “If you kept two feet together, you would slide down. If you tried holding on to a weed, it would come out.”

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.

German officials have said Russia was behind the explosive-laden drone that was found near a runway at a German airport last month.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which spent nearly nine months at sea to support U.S. operations against Iran, docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday to give the crew of about 5,000 an opportunity for beachside rest and recuperation.

Two Ukrainian citizens suffered minor injuries in the Augsburg train station explosion as police investigate a possible motive amid rising tensions.

Representatives, particularly from northern border states, had "a lot of questions" for U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at a closed-door lunch.

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to arrive in London to meet new Prime Minister Andy Burnham and visit the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum.

Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles in Malta. She was killed by a car bomb in 2017, at age 53.