Donald Trump will want to strike a deal on Russia's war in Ukraine that brings him a "win" for ending the fighting but without also gifting a victory to Vladimir Putin.
Iran has broached the possibility of getting Russia's help to build a nuclear power plant during talks in Moscow....
Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to years in a Russian penal colony....
No phones or other devices, strict reporting rules, bombed-out buildings, and a drone threat - Beth Rigby shares what it's like to join the prime minister Sir Keir Starmer in Ukraine....
In Moscow on Friday, a couple of days before Donald Trump's inauguration as US president, two of the West's main adversaries - Russia and Iran - will sign a strategic partnership pact....
Fears have been raised over the robustness of Britain's trade sanctions against Russia after the main government department enforcing the rules admitted it has no idea how many cases it is investigating....
Sir Keir Starmer's visit to the presidential palace in Kyiv was met with a message from Russia when a drone was blasted out of the sky above....
Keir Starmer will sign a century-long partnership with Ukraine today, as the prime minister makes his first visit to the war-torn country in an effort to shore up support for Kyiv - just days ahead of the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House....
President Joe Biden has warned of a "dangerous concentration of power" among a few wealthy people in the United States in his farewell address to the nation....
Ukraine has held its first amputee football tournament, with teams made up of players chosen from among the thousands of Ukrainians who have lost limbs in the war with Russia....
UK residents planning to buy a holiday home in Spain have been warned they could be hit with a 100% tax rise as the country tries to tackle its housing shortage....
The Donetsk theatre in the city of Mariupol was supposed to be a place of safety for hundreds of civilians sheltering during the first few weeks of Russia's invasion in Ukraine. A sign bearing the word "children" was marked on the ground outside, visible from the air....
Ukraine's president is offering a prisoner swap with North Korean soldiers it has captured, in exchange for Ukrainians held by Russia....
Boris Johnson has branded Russian President Vladimir Putin a "f****** idiot" over his alleged imperial ambitions....
Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia's Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said....
Donald Trump says a meeting is being set up between himself and Vladimir Putin - and that he and Barack Obama "probably" like each other....
A Russian spy was living in a "typical seaside hotel" on the English coast crammed full of electronic surveillance equipment, a court has heard....
Last year was the warmest on record, the first to breach a symbolic threshold, and brought with it deadly impacts like flooding and drought, scientists have said....
What does Russia think of Donald Trump's plan to acquire Greenland? Well, on the face of things, it is alarmed....
People in Belgium have been warned not to eat their Christmas trees....
US president-elect Donald Trump's threat to turn the world's second-largest country, Canada, into part of the United States by means of "economic force" represents the most serious threat to Canadian sovereignty since the War of 1812....
The public articulation by Donald Trump of a new desired target for NATO allies to spend 5% of national income on defence will surely plunge governments across Europe into crisis mode - not least here in the UK....
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allied militias are committing genocide in Sudan while waging war against the army for control of the country, Joe Biden's US administration has determined - two weeks before leaving office....
Donald Trump's threat that "all hell will break loose" if the Gaza hostages aren't released by his inauguration is, by my calculation, the third time he's used similar language since winning November's US presidential election....
US president-elect Donald Trump has refused to rule out military or economic action to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland - as he said he believes NATO spending should be increased to 5% per member state....
Around 425,000 names of people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis in the Netherlands during the Second World War have been released for the first time....
Experts have said 32 dolphins have died since oil oozed out of two tankers in stormy weather three weeks ago near southern Russia....
Ukraine has launched a new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, according to the Kremlin....
Every nation has its heroes, history and myths....
Drive an hour outside China's commercial capital Shanghai, and you'll reach Elon Musk's Tesla gigafactory....
Russian gas supplies to European Union states via Ukraine have been halted, shutting down Moscow's oldest gas route to the continent....