Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday touted close security and energy ties with Gulf nations during summit meetings in Saudi Arabia that have highlighted tensions with Washington.

The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a defense spending bill that includes up to $10 billion in military grant assistance for Taiwan and seeks to expedite arms sales to the island, drawing a rebuke from Beijing.

Canada yesterday announced sanctions against 67 individuals and nine entities in several countries, including members of Iran’s judiciary and prison system for alleged “gross and systematic human rights violations.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said the West’s desire to maintain its dominance on the world stage was increasing the risks of conflict.

The number of billionaires in the world dipped in 2022 due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, monetary policy tightening, stock market falls and the Chinese economic

One person died today in a massive blaze the size of a football pitch which broke out overnight in a sprawling shopping and entertainment centre in a northern Moscow suburb.."In the Moscow region, firefighters are putting out a fire the size of 7,000 square metres (75,300 square feet)," Ru

Finland and Sweden joined the United States on Thursday in asking Turkey for its greenlight soon to join NATO, saying they have been fulfilling promises sought by Ankara on militants.

Scientists in Greenland announced Wednesday they had found DNA dating back two million years -- the oldest ever extracted -- in sediment from the Ice Age, opening a new chapter in paleogenetics.

Russian forces are pressing forward with air and ground attacks on several settlements in eastern Ukraine, officials said yesterday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated seizing territory during the nine-month war.

US basketball star Brittney Griner has been released in a prisoner swap with Russia and is now in U.S. custody, President Joe Biden said on Thursday.

More than 1,000 New York Times employees went on strike at midnight Thursday in the first industrial action of its kind in more than 40 years, their union said.

Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, hanging a man convicted of blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary member in what human rights activists condemned as "show trials".

Iran hanged a man today convicted of wounding a paramilitary force member, the judiciary said, the first known execution it has carried out over nearly three months of protests.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians today in the flashpoint city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Peru's Congress swore in a new president on Wednesday in a day of sweeping political drama that saw the former leader, Pedro Castillo, arrested after his ousting from office in an impeachment trial hours after he attempted a last-ditch bid to stay in power by trying to dissolve Congress.

A prince, an ex-MP and former soldiers were arrested today in raids led by the German police against members of a far-right "terror group" that allegedly planned to attack parliament and overthrow the government.

A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the fiance of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi against Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, citing President Biden’s grant of immunity.

High-stakes UN biodiversity talks open in Montreal yesterday, in what is being billed as the “last best chance” to save the planet’s species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction.

The United States has said it hadn’t “enabled” Ukraine to carry out strikes inside Russia, after a spate of drone attacks on military-linked facilities deep within Russian territory.

Iran’s ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday paid a visit to a university and praised students for their welcome despite the “atmosphere of riots” after nearly three months of protests.