Police were responding to a shooting in downtown Washington on Thursday as a local official said "multiple people" were shot at a fitness center.

At least eight people have died after a three-story building in Brooklyn collapsed at the edge of a construction site, New York City's mayor said Thursday, as firefighters kept digging through the rubble to find others who may be trapped beneath the wreckage.

The building came down Wednesday afternoon. At least 17 people have been injured, including three firefighters, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

Spain's interim lower house of parliament on Thursday ratified housing measures designed to limit evictions and real estate speculation a day after a general strike and major street protests over the European nation's housing cost crunch.

The duration of the approved measures, however, will likely depend on the outcome of a national election set for later this month.

Leaders from more than 40 European countries are gathering in Dublin on Thursday for a summit focused on the continent's fragile security, amid a new U.S.-backed effort to revive talks on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

The meeting of the European Political Community brings together heads of state and government from the European Union and other European countries including the U.K., as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys met Thursday with President Vladimir Putin as Washington sought new momentum in peace efforts after two days of U.S.-mediated negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who is also Trump's son-in-law, brokered the talks in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the first direct discussions between representatives of Moscow and Kyiv in nine months as the push for peace stalled.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said a tanker caught fire early Wednesday after striking a naval mine while traveling along an unauthorized route through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway, Iranian state media reported.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center, a British military agency that monitors maritime safety, said a tanker was involved in an incident while transiting the strait.

Italian authorities evacuated some 300 schools across Italy on Wednesday after receiving an emailed bomb threat, the latest disruptions affecting European institutions following hoax bomb threats against airlines and broadcasters in recent weeks.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said in a statement that there was no indication of any "concrete danger" to Italian schools and said the threats appeared aimed at "generating alarm and concern."

Russia and Ukraine have agreed their biggest ever release of prisoners after two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, US envoy Jared Kushner told reporters on Wednesday.

"One of the positives is we agreed that we're going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we're going to finalise the numbers tomorrow," he said.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, Kushner said at the end of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, before travelling to Dublin to debrief Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

Kushner said the meeting with Putin would "go over what was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed because we see some openings.

Russia and Ukraine have resumed U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi for a second day, Kyiv's chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said on Wednesday.

"We are starting the second day of negotiations. First, a trilateral format together with the United States and Russia. After that, we will hold a separate meeting with our European partners. We are working," Umerov said on Telegram.