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ROME — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was city-hopping across Europe on Thursday to promote a "victory plan" that he said "aims to create the right conditions for a just end to the war" against Russia, detailing the proposals to European allies after a summit with President Joe Biden was derailed by Hurricane Milton. Zelenskyy's talks in London with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte were quickly followed by another meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron, who just the previous day sent a strong signal of support for Ukraine by visiting Ukrainian troops being trained in France. Zelenskyy posted on X that he "outlined the details" of the Ukrainian victory plan to Starmer and added: "We have agreed to work on it together wi...

Iranian hackers looking to undermine confidence in next month's U.S. elections are prowling for victims, putting a premium on anyone working for American political campaigns, according to a new warning from U.S. officials. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the government body responsible for overseeing election security, on Tuesday urged politicians and their teams to strengthen their cybersecurity posture to combat the threat from Iran. They also encouraged former U.S. government officials, academics, journalists and activists to take necessary precautions, noting the Iranian-linked hackers are operating at the behest of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "IRGC cyber actors pose an ongoing and escalating risk," CISA Director Jen Easterly...

North Korea is likely to send members of its regular armed forces to Ukraine in support of Russia, said South Korea’s defense minister on Tuesday, which would signal a significant deepening of cooperation between the allies. North Korea and Russia have moved noticeably closer over the past year or more amid widespread suspicion that North Korea has supplied conventional weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine in return for military and economic assistance. This year, the two countries signed a strategic treaty that includes mutual defense elements but they both deny that North Korea is sending Russia weapons. “As Russia and North Korea have signed a mutual treaty akin to a military alliance, the possibility of such a deployment is highly likely,” South Korean Defense Minister Kim...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends what state media said was a launching ceremony for a new tactical nuclear attack submarine in North Korea on Sept. 8, 2023. The South Korean military has detected apparent signs that North Korea has started to build a large nuclear-powered submarine, a Seoul-based lawmaker said on Tuesday, as North Korea’s leader dialed up his threat to use nuclear weapons against its enemies. North Korea unveiled a submarine “Hero Kim Kun Ok” in September last year, calling it a “tactical nuclear attack submarine,” and vowed that it would build a nuclear-powered submarine. “Partial signs that appear to be the start of the submarine’s construction have been detected,” said Kang Dae-sik of the ruling People Power Party, who was briefed on the issue by South Kor...