France this year experienced the hottest year since records began, the country's national weather service said Wednesday, as global warming stokes temperatures globally.
The United States has taken a public distance from Israel as never before over the Gaza war but the decisive test will be Rafah and whether Israel heeds US warnings....
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said it was a moral and strategic imperative to protect Palestinian civilians in the war between Israel and Hamas....
Donald Trump, the former US president and Republican candidate in November's election in the United States, has warned Israel it is losing international support and should "finish up" its war in Gaza....
Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, with no sign of a let-up in the war despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an "immediate ceasefire"....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it would be "unforgivable" if a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is not implemented, but Israel suggested it would change nothing about its conduct in the war and Hamas said it would only swap hostages for prisoners....
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Monday that last week's deadly attack at a concert outside Moscow was carried out by Islamic militants, but suggested it was also to the benefit of Ukraine....
Russia lowered flags to half-mast for a day of mourning and charged four men it accused of gunning down scores of people at a concert outside Moscow on Friday night in the deadliest attack inside Russia for two decades....
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to punish those behind a "barbaric terrorist attack" on a Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine....
With the war in Ukraine boosting demand for missiles, Thales' Belfast factory is stepping up production with the inauguration of a new mostly automated production line....
International relations minister Naledi Pandor has told an audience in the US why South Africa neither considers Iran's government as authoritarian nor wants Russia to be isolated by the international community....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returns to the Middle East on Wednesday for his sixth visit since the start of Israel's war with Hamas to push for a deal to secure a temporary pause in fighting and...
Half of Gazans are experiencing "catastrophic" hunger, with famine projected to hit the north of the territory by May unless there is urgent intervention, a United Nations-backed food security assessment warned Monday....
Vladimir Putin said Russia would not be "intimidated" as he hailed an election victory that paves the way for the former spy to become the longest-serving Russian leader in more than 200 years....
Anti-poverty charity Oxfam on Monday accused Israel of intentionally preventing the delivery of aid into Gaza during its war with Hamas, in violation of international humanitarian law....
President Vladimir Putin won a record 88% in Russia's presidential election on Sunday, exit polls and first results showed, cementing his grip on power, though thousands of opponents staged a symbolic noon protest at polling stations....
Ukrainian bombardments killed two people in a Russian border region on Saturday, its governor said, on the second day of presidential elections guaranteed to cement President Vladimir Putin's hardline rule....
A first aid ship plying a new maritime corridor from Cyprus began unloading its cargo of desperately needed food in Gaza on Friday as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war....
Vladimir Putin is likely to stay in power until "the end of his natural life" or until he is overthrown, an anti-corruption campaigner said on Friday as Russians voted in presidential polls....
Russians started voting on Friday in a three-day presidential election that is set to hand veteran leader Vladimir Putin another six-year term as the raging conflict in Ukraine spreads further into Russian territory....
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will host his French and Polish counterparts in Berlin on Friday in a bid to project European unity on support for Ukraine after weeks of friction between the allies....
President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict....
Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was assaulted outside his home in Vilnius on Tuesday, an incident that sparked an uproar from the Lithuanian government....
Two women who were filmed kissing each other at a restaurant in Russia have been fined more than R10 000 each for promoting "non-traditional relationships", a Russian court said on Tuesday....
Ukraine on Sunday angrily rejected Pope Francis's call to negotiate with Russia two years into its invasion, vowing "never" to surrender after the pontiff said Kyiv should "have the courage to raise the white flag"....
Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO, turning the page on two centuries of non-alignment and capping two years of tortuous diplomacy after Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggered new fears....
Indian authorities said they had detained members of a "trafficking" network sending citizens of the country to fight for the Russian army in Ukraine....
Mediators struggled to reach a truce in Israel's war with Hamas that entered its sixth month with dozens more killed, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory threatened by famine....
US President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union speech with a fiery attack on his "dangerous" November presidential election rival Donald Trump, warning that US democracy is under "assault"....
While experts believe South Africa’s latest legal bid to force a ceasefire in Gaza has little hope of success, top diplomat Zane Dangor says an attempt had to be made to address the starvation and suffering in the war-ravaged area – even if it doesn’t succeed....
Israel on Thursday accused South Africa of "cynical exploitation" of the International Court of Justice after Pretoria again requested emergency measures over the war in Gaza....