The additional $800 million in U.S. defense aid would equip five Ukrainian artillery battalions and include new attack drones, John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said.

Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, announced the extradition of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, whom he described as operating a 'narco state' during his tenure, on federal drug trafficking charges.

The Treasury secretary called for more resilient global supply chains due to the impact of the pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine.

President Biden speaks about the war two months into Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.

High winds and dry conditions hampered efforts to contain the Tunnel fire near Flagstaff, Ariz. The fire has prompted evacuations from hundreds of homes.

Boris Johnson, the prime minister of Britain, apologized to members of Parliament after he was fined by police for attending a lockdown party in Downing Street during the height of the pandemic.

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa estimated that last week's catastrophic flooding displaced more than 40,000 people. Hundreds of people have been killed and dozens are unaccounted for.

John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said that a small group of Ukrainian troops would be instructed on how to use American howitzers before returning home to teach their fellow soldiers.

The deaths were the first reported casualties of the war in Lviv, Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to the western city to escape fierce fighting in other parts of the country.

Eight more people suffered gunshot wounds and another five were injured in an attempt to flee the scene, when gunfire erupted at a party at an Airbnb rental where about 200 people, many underage, were in attendance.