Today’s Lead News Stories

Agreement seals deepening security cooperation between two nations and comes weeks after Pyongyang sent troops to Russia. What we know on day 993

Kaja Kallas says Ukraine’s victory in war is ‘a priority for us all’, adding that it is also in the US interest

Social media site accused of violating law that requires platforms to pay media when republishing articles

Immigration hardliner said last week that if Trump ‘needs help running a deportation operation, I am standing by’

Associated Press declares Trump victory in state, giving him expected final total of 312 electoral college votes

Jeff Landry outrages animal activists after importing Bengal tiger from Florida for on-field tradition

Five people wounded on Friday in stabbings in Chinatown and police suspect other stabbings on Thursday are linked

A doctor accused of criticising Russia's war in Ukraine in front of a patient was convicted of spreading false information about the military

A US post on Threads claimed that abortion is never medically necessary in the last trimester. Is it?

France's foreign minister has announced that the European Union may soon impose new sanctions on Israeli settlers accused of inciting violence in Palestinian territories. This follows Paris's warning that a recent incident in Jerusalem, where Israeli security forces entered a French-administered property, "must never happen again."

Gregory Aymond’s offer, required because he turns 75, says he wants to stay for resolution of institution’s bankruptcy but adds it is up to Pope Francis