The blueprint covers a broad range of issues, including territory, security guarantees and postwar reconstruction. But Russia has indicated little willingness to end the war.

Oil prices settled more than 2% lower on Friday as investors weighed a looming global supply glut, while also keeping an eye on a potential Ukraine peace deal ahead of talks this weekend between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a “very good” conversation with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on Christmas Day as negotiations over the terms of a potential peace deal continued.

Peace Corps volunteer Marya Cota-Wilson gives a gardening lesson in Costa Rica in the 1980s. Getty Images In March 2020, at the start of Covid-19 lockdowns, as flights were grounded and people around the world sheltered in place, 7,000-odd Peace Corps ...

S.C., said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that the U.S. negotiators were at risk of "overestimating" Putin's willingness to end the war.

A ceasefire in Gaza brings temporary relief, but unresolved political issues leave West Asia teetering between calm and crisis as 2025 ends

Local faith leaders preach similar messages during the Christmas season, even if the specific words aren’t the same

As I walk on through troubled times, my spirit gets so downhearted sometimes, so where are the strong and who are the trusted where is the harmony, sweet harmony.” – Nick Lowe Is there an escape, a place to go on this side of death where the real peace of life cannot only be felt,