A number of countries said they would arrest Israel's prime minister on an International Criminal Court warrant, which he blasted as anti-Semitic.
Pope Francis condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as "cruelty", sparking a sharp response from Israel which accused him of double standards....
This year, people voted in countries that were home to almost half the world’s population. In desert villages and at huge rallies on five continents, the elections took place at a time of global unrest, with conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East,...
Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometres of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm....
Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a citizen of Uzbekistan who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine's security services....
A UN envoy has warned that Syria's protracted conflict "has not ended yet", even as victorious Islamist-led rebels stepped up contacts with governments that deemed ousted president Bashar al-Assad a pariah....
Around one in five properties in England are at risk of flooding, a 15 percent increase from 2018, the Environment Agency warned Tuesday using models incorporating new localised data and climate change projections....
A bomb hidden in an electric scooter killed a senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces in Moscow on Tuesday, Russia's investigative committee said....
As Germany heads for elections, its security services warn that Russia and its sympathisers may step up meddling and disinformation to boost extremist parties and sow doubt about the democratic process....
The Indian-born head of one of Japan's most famous snack brands has warned that the country must change its mindset and admit more immigrants to get the economy back to the glory of its boom years....
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron the possibility of stationing foreign troops in Ukraine in case of a ceasefire....
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview published on Thursday that he disagrees "very vehemently" with Ukraine firing US-supplied missiles deep into Russia....
Taiwan said it detected 16 Chinese warships in waters around the island, one of the highest numbers this year, as Beijing intensifies military pressure on Taipei....
Taiwan said its military was on high alert as it launched combat readiness drills after detecting Chinese warships and coast guard vessels in waters around the island....
Syrians awakened to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia....
A Syria war monitor said that President Bashar al-Assad has left the country, after losing swathes of territory to a lightning offensive led by an Islamist-led rebel coalition that said it entered Damascus....
Romania's top court annulled the result of the first round of the country's presidential election on Friday, adding that the entire election process would have to be rerun....
Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a devastating new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies....
The Ukrainian Association of South Africa has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to tell "his friend and ally" Vladimir Putin to return Ukrainian children that had been forcibly deported....
The Syrian army said on Saturday dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack led by Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels who swept into the city of Aleppo, forcing the army to redeploy in the biggest challenge to Preside...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for NATO to offer guaranteed protections to parts of Ukraine controlled by Kyiv in order to 'stop the hot stage of the war'....
Russia is selecting targets in Ukraine that could include "decision-making centres" in Kyiv in response to Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russian territory with Western weapons, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday....
Russia carried out its second big attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure this month on Thursday, with national and local officials reporting blasts and emergency power cuts across the country....
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity in the alleged persecution of the Rohingya....
A Ukrainian delegation led by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov is visiting South Korea this week to ask for weapons aid to be used by Kyiv in its war with Russia, according to media reports....
Hezbollah previously said there could be no peace while Israel remains in Gaza, while Israel said it had to eliminate any future threat from Hezbollah. Now Western countries are due to support the Lebanese army as a buffer between them....
The US using Taiwan to provoke a serious crisis in Asia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told TASS news agency, reiterating Moscow's backing of China's stance on Taiwan....
Ukraine on Friday independently confirmed the real-world performance of Russia's new Oreshnik missile, reinforcing the message Moscow said it was trying to send....
Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro on Thursday in response to the US and UK allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced Western weapons....
Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Kyiv's air force said, in the first known use in the war of such a powerful, nuclear-capable weapon with a range of thousands of kilometres...
Ukraine fired a volley of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia on Wednesday, the latest new Western weapon it has been permitted to use on Russian targets a day after it fired US ATACMS missiles....
