A court in Moscow has ordered the imprisonment of Yulia Navalnaya - widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny - for two months.
In Mali, its paramilitaries battle separatists. In Zimbabwe, it provides free grain. What is Russia's game plan for Africa - and should the continent's nations trust it more than America?...
The likes of Chinese EV company BYD and battery maker CATL are very welcome in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa told them, shortly after Canada triggered a probable trade war with tariffs on China-made electric cars....
The United States, European Union and nine Latin American countries on Tuesday rejected an arrest warrant issued in Venezuela against opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have rightfully won the July presidential election....
President Volodymyr Zelensky said dozens of people were killed in a Russian attack Tuesday on the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, which hit a military educational facility....
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Mongolia on Monday, his first visit to a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it issued an arrest warrant for him last year....
The Brazilian Geological Service has warned that water levels have been falling since June and all rivers in the Amazon basin are expected to drop below their historical levels....
Pavel Durov, the Telegram boss arrested in France, was "too free" in his approach to running the social media platform, and this was his undoing, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday....
A Beluga whale whose strange harness sparked suspicions it was trained by Russia for spying purposes has been found dead in Norway, according to an NGO which tracks his movements....
A helicopter with 22 people aboard, most of them tourists, has gone missing in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula in the far east, regional authorities said on Saturday....
ROME, Aug 30 - The latest skirmish in Italy's culture wars has erupted over a kindergarten's decision to introduce a unisex school uniform policy, instead of pink for girls and blue for boys, in the name of inclusivity and gender equality....
One of Ukraine's F-16 fighter jets crashed while repelling a major Russian attack on Monday, Kyiv's military said, the first such loss reported since the long-awaited arrival of the US-made planes this month....
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Tuesday that his new government's first budget in just over two months will be "painful", asking the country to "accept short-term pain for long-term good"....
Russian bombardment on the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk killed six people on Wednesday, the governor of the region said, as Moscow announced it had taken another village in the area....
Russia fired a wave of attack drones and missiles at Ukraine that killed at least five people, authorities said Tuesday, after a second night of heavy strikes across the war-battered nation....
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would likely need to impose "painful" higher taxes on the wealthy as part of his plan to overhaul Britain and rid it of the rot he said had set in during 14 years of Conservative rule....
Ukrainian authorities issued new air raid alerts across the country on Tuesday as Russian bombers took to the skies, a day after Moscow carried out a "massive" attack on Ukraine's power grid....
Russia said on Monday it had conducted a massive strike on Ukraine which it said had disrupted the electricity supply and the transport by rail of arms and ammunition to the front line....
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a bigger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare....
India's Narendra Modi arrived in wartime Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, the first trip by an Indian prime minister to Ukraine since Kyiv gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991....
The most divisive issue facing the Democratic Party, US support for Israel's war in Gaza, has gone mostly unaddressed during the four-day convention, leaving pro-Palestinian delegates upset with presidential candidate Kamala Harris....
Ukrainian civilians fled areas close to the front line as Russian troops steadily seized more territory across the eastern Donetsk region....
Ukraine attacked Moscow with at least 11 drones shot down by air defences in what Russian officials said was one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022....
Russia's prosecutor general has banned a foundation started by US film star George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife Amal....
Thousands of mostly peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters marched in Chicago as US President Joe Biden arrived for the opening day of the Democratic National Convention....
Russia launched its third ballistic missile on Kyiv in August, with preliminary data showing that all the air weapons were destroyed on their approach to the city, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to arrive in Israel as part of Washington's intensifying diplomatic push to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza that will end the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East to continue diplomatic push for ceasefire deal....
With Gaza largely in ruins after more than 10 months of war, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry has struggled to count the death toll, which on Thursday surpassed 40 000....
Qatar is set to host Gaza ceasefire talks on Thursday, seeking a so-far elusive agreement that the United States hopes would stop Iran striking Israel and avert a wider war....
The United States on Tuesday approved the sale of $20 billion in fighter jets and other military equipment to Israel as it prosecutes a 10-month-old war in the Gaza Strip although the Pentagon said deliveries would not begin for...