France’s President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he did not rule out downing a Russian fighter jet if it were to breach European airspace.
Israel’s relentless destruction of Gaza and targeting of the Palestinian civilian population shows no sign of abating, with at least 17 killed in attacks since dawn, as a US ceasefire plan hangs in the balance to end the genocidal two-year war waged by the Israeli government....
President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to back a US-sponsored Gaza peace proposal aimed at ending a nearly two-year-old war in the Palestinian enclave, including a ceasefire and the release of hostages held by Hamas....
Ukraine announced that a Russian overnight drone strike had killed a family of four in the northeastern Sumy region....
Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog....
Key Muslim nations threw their weight behind a plan by US President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza, even as some Palestinians decried the proposal as a “farce”....
US President Donald Trump says that he will tell a gathering of US generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, that they are cherished leaders who need to be strong and tough....
US President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for high-stakes talks aimed at pushing an elusive Gaza peace plan over the line....
The death toll from alcohol poisoning in western Russia this month rose to 25 after lethal methanol levels were confirmed in six more bodies, investigators said Saturday....
Germany is considering allowing its military to shoot down drones, a report said on Saturday, after recent drone incursions around Europe raised tensions with Russia....
Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned on Friday against a return to a “Cold War mentality” and defended multilateralism and free trade, in a veiled criticism of the United States from the United Nations....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply denounced Western countries on Friday for embracing Palestinian statehood and accused them of buckling under pressure from activists and others who have accused Israel of war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza....
South Korean forces fired warning shots at a North Korean merchant vessel that crossed the disputed sea border between the two countries in the Yellow Sea for up to an hour, officials said....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Kremlin will become a target, and Russian officials should check for bomb shelters if Moscow does not stop its invasion of his country, Axios reported on Thursday....
France has recognised a Palestinian state at a world summit in New York on Monday, nearly two years into the war in Gaza, joining Western allies such as Britain and Canada, who made the same historic move on Sunday and were rebuked by Israel....
World leaders gather in New York this coming week for a UN General Assembly dominated by US President Donald Trump’s return to the rostrum, war in Gaza and Ukraine, rising Western recognition of Palestinian statehood and nuclear tensions with Iran....
Tara Reade, an American woman who claimed US ex-President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, was granted Russian citizenship on Monday, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin....
Hong Kong planned to evacuate thousands of residents on Friday as a bomb left over from World War II was discovered at a construction site....
The Israeli military warned on Friday it would operate with “unprecedented force” in Gaza City, telling residents to flee southwards as it presses its ground offensive on the territory’s largest urban centre....
MI6 chief Richard Moore said that he sees “no evidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has any interest in a negotiated peace short of Ukrainian capitulation....
France was bracing for a day of nationwide disruption in a show of anger over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with unions vowing mass protests, public transport set to be paralysed in places due to strikes and officials warning of possible disturbances by extremist elements....
Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media are exploiting conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination to advance thousands of false claims aimed at undermining the US and other adversaries, a research group warned on Wednesday....
Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said two foreign laboratories had carried out tests on biological samples obtained from her husband that showed he was poisoned....
The European Union will implement new measures against Israel and further raise support for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said....
UK fighter jets will join a NATO operation over Poland to help defend the alliance’s eastern flank after Russian drones entered Polish airspace last week, the defence ministry said on Monday....
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Gaza was “on fire”, warning his country “will not relent” after witnesses told AFP of massive strikes in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory....
China is intentionally mischaracterising World War Two-era documents to put pressure on and isolate Taiwan given those agreements made no determination of the island’s ultimate political status, the de facto US embassy in Taipei said....
US President Donald Trump on Friday said his patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin was running out but stopped short of threatening new sanctions over the Ukraine war....
Hundreds of South Korean workers were headed back to Seoul after their detention in a US immigration raid that Hyundai warned will delay completion of its battery factory....
US President Donald Trump led prominent voices in the MAGA movement on Wednesday to describe right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as a “martyr” and “casualty of war” for conservative values after he was shot dead at a Utah university....
International Criminal Court judges on Tuesday began hearings to finalise charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony....
