The European Union will help fund a Unesco scheme supporting developing countries as they create laws regulating artificial intelligence, the UN cultural body said yesterday.

An international accord on recycling ships is set to begin within 24 months after Bangladesh and Liberia became the latest countries to ratify the accord, officials said on Monday.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the finances of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's catering firm would be investigated after his mutiny, saying Wagner and its founder had received almost $2 billion from Russia in the past year

A Russian court has fined Alphabet's Google 4 billion roubles ($47 million) for failing to pay an earlier fine over alleged abuse of its dominant position in the video hosting market, the country's anti-monopoly watchdog said on Tuesday

The headquarters of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led a mutiny over the weekend that rattled President Vladimir Putin’s rule, said yesterday it was working in “normal mode.”

Global energy sector carbon dioxide emissions hit a record peak last year counter to Paris commitments, a key study warned yesterday, and highlighted the “worst ever” impacts of climate change.

Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in rebel-held northwest Syria yesterday, the deadliest attack on the war-torn country this year, a war monitor said.

Wagner mercenaries were headed back to base yesterday after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow their leader to avoid treason charges and accept exile in Belarus.

Mutinous Russian mercenaries who surged most of the way to Moscow have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said yesterday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin's grip on power

Canadian safety officials on Friday opened an investigation into the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard while diving to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, raising questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions.

Members of a multinational group on Antarctic conservation failed to agree Friday on a roadmap for the creation of three new marine protected areas -- a goal that has proven elusive for years.

More than 40 people are missing after a migrant boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the UN said. The shipwreck took place on Thursday and at least one newborn baby is among those missing, said UNHCR representative to Italy Chiara Cardoletti.

Countries around the world were closely watching events unfolding in Russia yesterday, where a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group posed the most serious challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s long rule.

Ukraine said yesterday it had downed an entire barrage of 13 cruise missiles fired by Russian forces overnight targeting an airfield in the west of the country. “Thirteen of the occupiers’ cruise missiles were destroyed on June 23....

Multilateral development banks like the World Bank are expected to find $200 billion in extra firepower for low-income economies by taking on more risk, a move that may require wealthy nations to inject more cash, world leaders said yesterday.

The European Union yesterday held crisis talks with the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo, as the bloc seeks to ease the latest spike in tensions.

The World Bank chief announced a raft of measures yesterday to aid countries hit by natural disasters, including a pause in debt repayments to the lender, at a gathering of world leaders in Paris to give impetus to a new global finance agenda.

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old sanctuary made up of ditches and burial mounds in the central Netherlands that they believe may have served a similar purpose to Stonehenge.

Europe should brace for more deadly heatwaves driven by climate change, said a sweeping report yesterday, noting the world’s fastest-warming continent was some 2.3 degrees Celsius hotter last year than in pre-industrial times.

Ukraine confirmed yesterday it had driven Russian forces from an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive in a heavily fortified part of the front line on the most direct route to the country’s Azov Sea coast.