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.
Several Ukrainian regions suffered power cuts in frigid winter weather on Tuesday, after Russia launched its latest deadly large-scale attack with drones and missiles, authorities said....
US President Donald Trump announced a new class of heavily armed warships that will be named after himself - an honour usually reserved for leaders who have left office....
US President Donald Trump said on Monday it would be “smart” for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down, as US naval forces pressed a blockade on the South American country’s oil wealth....
Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned against power struggles in the Vatican administration and called for “humility” in a more moderate echo of his predecessor Pope Francis’s rhetoric....
A senior Russian general was killed in southern Moscow after an explosive device placed under his car went off, investigators said in a statement....
European Union leaders have decided to loan 90 billion euros ($105 billion) to Ukraine to fund its defence against Russia for the next two years, rather than deploy an unprecedented plan to finance Kyiv with frozen Russian assets. This is how the loan will work....
European Union leaders decided to borrow cash to fund Ukraine’s defence against Russia for the next two years rather than use frozen Russian assets, sidestepping divisions over an unprecedented plan to finance Kyiv with Russian sovereign cash....
China told the United States to “immediately stop” arming Taiwan, after Taipei said Washington had approved the sale of $11 billion of weapons to the island....
A Latin-quoting cat lover with a penchant for three-piece suits, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has been thrust to centre stage in the EU over his opposition to using Russian assets for Ukraine....
The International Criminal Court on Monday rejected a challenge from Israel, which had argued that the court’s investigation into crimes committed in the Gaza Strip was invalid....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was set to push on with talks in Berlin on Monday with US President Donald Trump’s envoys on how to end the grinding war with Russia....
The US ambassador to the UN on Friday accused Rwanda, which supports the M23 armed group in the conflict in eastern DR Congo, of leading the region toward war....
With an impending storm in Gaza, a sense of terror has seized a population already exhausted from two years of Israel’s war with its unrelenting bombardment, starvation and chaos....
A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan, the weather office said, days after an even larger tremor shook the region and injured at least 50....
Artillery rounds echoed in the distance as Thai rubber tapper Boonkerd Yoodeerum settled into a folding bed, sheltering with his family under a bridge near the Cambodia border where fighting has erupted once more....
Military aid for Ukraine plummeted in the second half of 2025 as falling European contributions failed to make up for the halt in US support, data from the Kiel Institute showed on Wednesday....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet the heads of NATO and the European Union for talks on Monday, the alliance said, in the latest leg of diplomacy over US efforts to end Russia’s war....
Honduras’ top prosecutor has issued an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, intensifying legal and political turmoil just days after the ex-leader walked free from a United States prison....
Ukraine’s European allies have agreed to increase their support for Ukraine and put more economic pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin as they say efforts to end Moscow’s “barbaric” war are at a “critical moment”, according to Downing Street....
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said recent talks with United States negotiators over ending the war with Ukraine were “very useful”, while doubling down on the maximalist demands and territorial designs that are standing in the way of a solution....
Ukraine wants “real peace, not appeasement” with Russia, its foreign minister said on Thursday at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the security and rights body seeking a role for itself in a post-war Ukraine....
President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia, then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute that there would be no one left even to negotiate a peace deal....
High-stakes US-Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine failed to yield a breakthrough, as the Kremlin said “no compromise” had been found yet on the key question of territory....
Russia says the United States-brokered talks to end the war with Ukraine are “serious”, but its officials caution that an agreement is a long way off and Moscow would offer no major concessions to Kyiv....
On 10 October 2025, a ceasefire was supposed to have put an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza....
Donald Trump accused election officials in Honduras of “trying to change” their presidential election outcome, in a race where the US president has voiced support for right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura....
The White House on Monday defended a US admiral’s decision to conduct multiple strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessel in September, saying he had Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s authorisation, even as critics questioned the legality of a strike on survivors....
Talks are under way between US and Ukrainian officials on a peace deal toward ending Kyiv’s war with Moscow, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council said on Sunday....
President Vladimir Putin has said he is ready to guarantee in writing that Russia will not attack another European nation, as he dismissed claims that Moscow intends to invade another country as a “lie” and “complete nonsense”....
Russia has seen the latest copy of a draft US plan to end the Ukraine war and views some of it positively, but wants a discussion about the other parts, the Kremlin said on Wednesday....
