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.
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....
Poland said it scrambled its own and NATO air defences to shoot down drones after a Russian air attack on western Ukraine, the first time in the Ukraine war that Warsaw has engaged assets in its airspace....
Since completing nearly three months of deployment in Lebanon during Israel’s war with Hezbollah, Israeli reservist Natan Ruchansky has refused a fresh call-up order for Gaza, declaring himself a conscientious objector....
Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in east Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding several others, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in one of the deadliest anti-Israeli attacks since the outbreak of the Gaza war....
US President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash his newly rebranded “Department of War” on Chicago, as thousands of protesters marched in the city as well as in Washington, DC, to denounce the deployment of National Guard troops and immigration agents to Democratic-led cities....
An Israeli strike flattened a high-rise in Gaza City on Saturday - the second in as many days - after the military warned people to flee south to a “humanitarian zone” ahead of a planned offensive to capture the area....
The Israeli military destroyed a high-rise in Gaza City on Friday, shortly after announcing it would target tall buildings identified as being used by Hamas ahead of Israeli forces’ planned conquest of the urban hub....
Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour Party leader, is set to host a two-day event examining the United Kingdom’s role in Israel’s war on Gaza, casting the “tribunal” as an attempt to bring about justice for the Palestinian people....
European leaders on Thursday spoke to US President Donald Trump after holding a summit with President Volodymyr Zelensky on security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace accord to end Russia’s three-and-a-half-year war against Ukraine....
The UN on Tuesday said the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that has killed more than 1 400 people could impact “hundreds of thousands”, and warned of an “exponential” rise in casualties....
Firebrand former Democratic Republic of Congo justice minister Constant Mutamba was sentenced on Tuesday to three years of forced labour for embezzling public funds, including reparations for war victims, an AFP journalist saw....
Russia launched a sweeping overnight air attack on Ukraine, injuring at least four railway workers and prompting Poland to scramble defence aircraft, Ukrainian and Polish authorities said....
A US federal appeals court ruled against US President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members and blocked its use in some southern states....
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West....
Ethiopia’s record of detaining journalists and attempts to control the media has caused concern as the country prepares for high-stakes election in 2026. Rights groups warn of a growing crackdown....
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a suspect had been arrested in the shooting of former speaker of parliament Andriy Parubiy, and had given an initial statement to investigators....
Israel intensified its military build-up on Tuesday as reservists began responding to call-up orders ahead of a planned offensive to capture Gaza City, nearly two years into a devastating war....
Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prevot has announced....
In a show of solidarity with the aggressors in Europe’s worst war in 80 years, China’s Xi Jinping will convene with his Russian and North Korean counterparts for the first time as Donald Trump and other Western leaders watch from afar....
A gunman on the run in the bush in Australia after being accused of killing two officers was being aided by locals, police said, as the manhunt entered its seventh day....
