A leading Swiss glaciologist warned Wednesday that 2023 was looking "not good" for the country's glaciers, a year after they suffered a record melt.
Russia has deliberately targeted hotels used by journalists covering its war on Ukraine, the NGOs Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Truth Hounds said, calling the strikes “war crimes”....
NATO chief Mark Rutte said that he was “cautiously optimistic” for progress toward peace in Ukraine, but that it was up to Russia to take the “next steps necessary”....
Three Ukrainians have been arrested over a plot to mail exploding parcels from Germany to Ukraine, prosecutors said, putting Europe’s cross-border postal network in the spotlight as a target of suspected Russian sabotage....
French President Emmanuel Macron said that France did not want to unleash “World War III” over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and vowed referendums on key issues as he outlined his aims for for the remaining two years of his mandate....
Pope Leo XIV has told the world’s Jewish communities he wants to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church’s dialogue with them, in a message coming after a souring of relations between the Vatican and Israel over the war in Gaza....
United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher called on the UN Security Council to take action “to prevent genocide” in Gaza, delivering a scathing account of Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territory....
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged US counterpart Donald Trump to help secure a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Turkey, while accusing the Russian leader of not seriously wanting to end the war....
Condemning “fake news” and accusing Russia of seeking to undermine efforts to bring peace to Ukraine, France has slammed false claims on social media that European leaders including President Emmanuel Macron were seen taking drugs on a train....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would agree to meet Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday after US President Donald Trump told him immediately to accept Putin’s proposal of direct talks....
Russia launched 108 drones across Ukraine overnight and struck a civilian freight train, injuring its driver, Ukrainian authorities said, after European leaders joined President Volodymyr Zelensky in demanding a 30-day ceasefire....
India accused Pakistan of violating a fragile ceasefire agreement on Saturday and said it was retaliating, hours after US President Donald Trump announced that the nuclear-armed neighbours had stepped back from the brink of full-blown war....
It is “very difficult” to imagine any operation to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip without the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, a UNRWA spokesperson said on Friday....
Ukraine’s SBU security agency said it had uncovered a spy network being run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about Ukraine’s defences....
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a three-day truce with Ukraine took effect, a move the Kremlin said would “test” Kyiv’s readiness for peace, but that Ukraine has slammed as a farce....
A secretive order from US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to halt military aid flights to Ukraine sparked confusion in Washington and Kyiv, exposing deep divisions and dysfunction within the Trump administration’s national security team....
Afghanistan’s Taliban government warned India and Pakistan on Wednesday that further escalation was not “in the interest of the region” after they exchanged artillery fire along their contested frontier....
A multi-million-dollar US warplane failed to land on the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea, the US military said, the second jet lost from the ship in just over a week....
From influencer-only briefings to memes of Donald Trump as the pope and a Star Wars Jedi master, the White House is creating its own alternate media reality....
A senior Hamas official said the group was no longer interested in truce talks with Israel and urged the international community to halt Israel’s “hunger war” against Gaza....
Russia and Ukraine launched more overnight air attacks on each other’s capitals on Wednesday, with two people killed as a result of the strikes on Kyiv and swarms of drones destroyed on their approach to Moscow....
More than a dozen Russian airports had to restrict their traffic due to drone attacks overnight to Tuesday, Russian authorities reported, including in Moscow days before a planned military parade....
Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack targeting Moscow for the second night in a row, forcing closure of the capital’s three major airports, Russian officials said early on Wednesday....
Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, setting off two wars and a series of changes across the Middle East....
Gaza's civil defence agency said two Israeli air strikes killed at least 19 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory's north....
Russian authorities said defence forces had repelled four drones heading toward Moscow, days before foreign leaders are due to gather for a military parade on the capital's Red Square....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet has approved a gradual expansion of the offensive against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed a three-day truce ordered by Russian leader Vladimir Putin as theatrics but said Kyiv was ready for a full ceasefire....
Apple on Thursday reported first-quarter profit above expectations but warned that US tariffs could cost the company and were disrupting its supply chain....
Media rights group RSF warned about "an alarming deterioration in press freedom" in the US under President Donald Trump as well as "unprecedented" difficulties for independent journalists around the world....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday hailed a minerals deal that Kyiv had signed with Washington, saying the reworked agreement was "truly equal"....
