It is increasingly difficult for Putin to finance his war. Every Euro we deny Russia is one it cannot spend on war."

The United States carried out another strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat on Wednesday, killing three men in the second strike on a vessel in the Pacific Ocean in two days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

The president suggested that his administration is preparing to expand its counternarcotics efforts further to also encompass targets on land.

A series of boat strikes risks alienating allies and is part of Trump's push to claim unprecedented presidential power, critics say.

In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two individuals aboard the vessel were killed, Hegseth said. The other seven strikes targeted vessels in the Caribbean. A defense official confirmed the vessel was in international waters off of Colombia.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha attended a private Mass celebrated by Franciscan monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem Thursday.

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia following a retreat on Wall Street, while crude prices jumped more than $2 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions on Russian oil giants