Moscow warns the US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons. The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden´s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles adds 'fuel to the fire' of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher. An Israeli airstrike slammed into a densely populated residential area in Lebanon´s capital near key government and diplomatic buildings late Monday, killing at least five people as the U.S. pressed ahead with cease-fire efforts. Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong´s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. As tens of thousands of marchers crowded the streets in New Zealand´s capital Wellington on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest. A Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled oral arguments that were scheduled for next month on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against President-elect Donald Trump. President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he is naming former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy as his nominee for transportation secretary, as he continues to roll out picks for his Cabinet. Leaders of the world's 20 major economies called for a global pact to combat hunger, more aid for war-torn Gaza and an end to hostilities in the Mideast and Ukraine, issuing a joint declaration Monday that was heavy on generalities but short of details on how to accomplish those goals. A man fatally stabbed three people across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, carrying out a series of random attacks without uttering a word to his victims, officials said. Arthur Frommer, whose 'Europe on 5 Dollars a Day' guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95.