Vladimir Putin began his fifth term as Russian president at a palace in Moscow in front of a crowd of faces - including actor Steven Seagal and the leader of a biker gang.
People in northeastern Japan have been warned to stay vigilant after a man was found dead with gash wounds and police officers were left with serious injuries....
While fighting continues in the east, a new front has been opened in the north of Ukraine....
For months, the rift in Israel's war cabinet has been an open secret - this week it spilled out into the open, not once but twice....
Members of a Ukrainian brigade have described how they were secretly relocated to help defend a section of the country's border with Russia a few days before a new invasion began....
Oleksandr Usyk has become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world after defeating British boxing star Tyson Fury....
A member of Israel's three-man war cabinet has threatened to resign from the government if it does not adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza....
Georgia's president has vetoed a controversial bill which sparked weeks of mass protests in the country, as critics call the new legislation a "Russian law". ...
World number one golfer Scottie Scheffler says he was "rattled" and "in shock" after he was arrested and charged by police this morning....
Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, has been struck by several drones during the country's longest air raid alert since Russia launched its invasion....
The shadow of the Kremlin looms darker over Georgia at the end of this week, just as it does over Ukraine....
China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin have met in Beijing - promoting their alliance and their new 'world order' away from the West. ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked Xi Jinping for China's efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict....
On the day of their marriage, Mariia Alieksieievych's husband, Serhii, was holding out at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the last bastion of resistance in the besieged southern port city of Ukraine as it came under one of the harshest sieges since the Second World War....
As President Putin holds talks with President Xi in Beijing on Thursday, the trading relationship between their two countries will feature prominently....
Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to China is part of the great power politics currently being played out between the West and the global south. ...
This weekend's undisputed heavyweight clash is "D-Day" for both fighters, Tyson Fury has warned, as he renewed his verbal feud with his opponent....
You've heard of the transatlantic 'Special Relationship'. This is the "No Limits" partnership - a term coined when Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in February 2022....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has cancelled all his foreign trips in an alarming sign of the grave situation for his depleted troops as Russia's new offensive continues....
Sat in a makeshift shelter on the outskirts of a frontline town in eastern Ukraine, the soldier - callsign "Zaur" - shared some rare, good news: new ammunition appeared to be arriving....
Two prison officers who were killed in an attack on a police convoy in France have been named - as Interpol issued a red notice search warrant for escaped prisoner Mohamed Amra, nicknamed "The Fly"....
Watching a live drone feed, it was possible to make out three people running down a street in a frontline town in northeastern Ukraine....
He is the puppet master of Georgian politics - a man of fabulous wealth and extraordinary power. ...
Tyson Fury's dad John Fury was left with a bloody face after he headbutted a member of Oleksandr Usyk's entourage during an ugly clash at a media event....
More than 200 settlements in Sudan have been hit by over 300 fires since the start of the country's civil war in April last year, according to new data....
Masked men - members of the security forces - have clashed with protesters in Georgia as a political crisis over the country's "foreign agents" bill continues....
Protesters have smashed barriers at Georgia's parliament after it approved a divisive "foreign agents" bill....
Russia was able to open a new front in northeastern Ukraine because of delays in the supply of Western weapons to the frontline, the head of the region under attack has claimed....
A Georgian opposition politician who was beaten by a group of hooded thugs has said he was targeted by "Putin's puppets"....
Russia claims its troops have seized control of at least nine Ukrainian villages as intense fighting continues in the Kharkiv region....
Russia has reopened a major front in its war with Ukraine in a move that will stretch Kyiv's already undermanned and outgunned forces as they wait for Western weapons....