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U.S. President Joe Biden has, for the first time, publicly apologized to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for the months of delay in American military assistance that Kyiv said cost lives and allowed Russia to make gains on the battlefield.

Israel has condemned a decision by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to add it to a U.N. blacklist of countries and groups that commit grave violations against children.

The European Union’s parliamentary elections, the world’s largest voting exercise after India’s, entered their second day Friday. EU nations Ireland and the Czech Republic cast ballots for 35 seats in the European Parliament. Friday’s voting began in these two nations after the Netherlands kicked off the four-day ballot with an anti-Islam party in a tight race with leftist parties.

World leaders gathered Thursday in Normandy, France, for the 80th anniversary of the bloody D-Day landings that helped to end World War Two, realizing that Europe faces once again death and destruction in Ukraine.

Global initiatives are accelerating to introduce a worldwide digital identification document (ID) that opponents say could eventually force billions to relinquish their privacy.

The Dutch Labor Party/GreenLeft (PvdA/GL) alliance has become the biggest party in the Dutch elections for the European Parliament, winning eight seats, in a setback for right-wing parties, exit polls showed Thursday.

Nearly five million doses of flu vaccine are being prepared for potential use in the United States as the continued spread of H5N1 avian flu among dairy cows has resulted in three cases of bird flu in humans, UPI reports.

At least four people, including two Ukrainians, were killed, and some 20 people suffered light injuries when a passenger train collided with a freight train overnight in the Czech Republic, officials said Thursday.

The Israeli military acknowledged that it struck a school in central Gaza early Thursday that reportedly killed dozens of people, but was quick to add that Hamas fighters were operating from within the school.

Despite strong opposition from the progressive wing of the Democratic party, all four leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives on Friday issued a bipartisan invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress, Reuters reports.