Russian officials said on Friday that debris from a Ukrainian drone hit a nuclear power plant a day earlier, temporarily causing the station to reduce its output.
Japan will suffer a “crushing defeat” by the Chinese military if it tries to use force to intervene over Taiwan, China’s defence ministry said on Friday, ramping up the rhetoric over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about the island....
Almost every district in Kyiv came under “massive” attack, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, with a death reported hours after AFP journalists heard explosions in the city centre....
Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, has apologised to Donald Trump for editing a speech to make it look like he had advocated violence, seeking to ward off the United States president’s threat of legal action....
United States Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has formally announced the launch of a US military operation to target so-called “narco-terrorists” as Washington’s large-scale build-up of troops, warships and fighter jets continues in Latin America....
The United States had evidence in 2024 that Israeli officials discussed how their soldiers sent Palestinians into tunnels in Gaza that the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives, two former US officials have told the Reuters news agency....
US President Donald Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history....
French President Emmanuel Macron warned that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would be a “red line” and would provoke a European reaction....
An additional 2 300 US flights were cancelled as US President Donald Trump threatened to dock pay for air traffic controllers who called in sick during the government shutdown....
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Canada’s Niagara region this week to join the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting, his office said....
Airlines in the US have cancelled more than 3 200 flights amid a top transport official’s warning that air travel could “slow to a trickle” due to the ongoing government shutdown....
Republicans in the US Senate have voted down legislation that would have required US President Donald Trump to obtain congressional approval for any military attacks on Venezuela....
US President Donald Trump expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon”, following two years of war in the territory between Israel and Hamas....
New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor Tuesday and Democrats won two key state governor races as US voters delivered an early warning to President Donald Trump ahead of 2026’s midterms....
US President Donald Trump sent mixed signals about potential US intervention in Venezuela, playing down concerns of imminent war against the South American nation but saying its leader Nicolas Maduro’s days were numbered....
Russia launched an overnight attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, injuring 11 residents, including four children, Ukraine’s emergency services said....
US Vice President JD Vance warned of a potential holiday meltdown if a government shutdown stretches into the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel season and urged Democrats to provide the votes to reopen the government....
A US guided-missile destroyer that docked for four days in Trinidad and Tobago, within firing range of mainland Venezuela - which called its presence a “provocation” - departed as scheduled on Thursday, AFP witnessed....
US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing on a level with China and Russia - just minutes before opening a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping....
Russia has successfully tested a nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered underwater drone, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, defying US President Donald Trump’s warnings with Moscow’s second test of a new nuclear weapons system in just a few days....
Venezuela blasted the arrival in nearby Trinidad and Tobago of a US warship as a dangerous “provocation”, amid mounting fears of potential attacks against the Venezuelan mainland....
Rising floodwater and extreme winds hit Jamaica on Tuesday as the Caribbean island braced for the imminent landfall of Hurricane Melissa, and officials pleaded with residents to take shelter....
The UN forecast the first decline in greenhouse gases ever, but the world remains well off course in keeping global warming below the 1.5 °C leaders committed to when they signed the Paris Agreement a decade ago....
British police said they had arrested three men suspected of assisting a foreign intelligence service, and that the alleged offences related to Russia....
With Gaza’s education system shattered by two years of gruelling war, UNICEF’s regional director says he fears for a “lost generation” of children wandering ruined streets with nothing to do....
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting in London on Friday that there was more that Western allies could do to bolster Kyiv’s long-range missile capability....
US President Donald Trump has said US attacks on alleged “narco-terrorists” do not need a declaration of war, and while Congress will be briefed on operations, the recent spate of bombings of vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean will be followed by strikes on land....
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to London for a meeting of its key backers, where Britain’s prime minister has said he will call on Europe to deliver more long-range missiles....
US President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, complaining that his talks with Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war “don’t go anywhere”....
Viral claims of a so-called ‘Christian genocide’ in Nigeria are stirring heated debate online — but analysts warn that such narratives could undermine fragile peacebuilding efforts....
US President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be “eradicated” if it breaches the Gaza deal with Israel, but said he would give the Palestinian militant group a chance to honour the truce....
