Despite credible claims of responsibility from Islamist terrorists, the secretary of Russia's National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, blamed Ukraine for the attack near Moscow last Friday.
After the terrorist attack near Moscow, which was probably Islamist-motivated, the Russian security authorities are urgently searching for the masterminds.
Even almost two decades after the end of his political career, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) does not regret any important decisions he made during his active time.
While there are signs of rapprochement in the Gaza war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas after months of wrangling over a ceasefire, the Jewish state is coming under increasing pressure over its conduct of the war.
There are two important developments in the US justice system's proceedings against Donald Trump: The ex-president must pay the fine from a fraud trial of almost half a billion US dollars as bail by this Monday.
According to Israeli media reports, there has been some movement in the indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over a temporary ceasefire and the release of hostages.
The Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag hopes to be able to stop the traffic light coalition's cannabis law, which was approved by the Bundesrat and remains highly controversial.
The bitter dispute over the budget in the USA reveals the deep divisions among Republicans in Congress and dampens hopes that new aid funds for Ukraine will be approved soon.
And suddenly terror is back in Russia: men armed with machine guns stormed the Crocus City Hall event center on Friday evening, shot civilians indiscriminately and set the building on fire.