From a music club sheltered underground in Ukraine’s capital, Mariana Navrotskaya cannot hear the air raid warnings sounding above her. It is her...
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A Rohingya mother and her five-year-old daughter have been found among 200 people rescued in Indonesia after being adrift on a boat for almost a month...
Two Iranian women chess players have competed in an international tournament without a hijab. Sara Khadem and Atousa Pourkashiyan, who are playing in the FIDE...
Serbian security forces on the border with Kosovo have been placed on a state of “full combat readiness”. The order was given by Serbia’s...
While it no longer controls vast swathes of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State remains a threat and will seek to spring 10,000 of its fighters from Syrian prisons...
South Korea says it has scrambled fighter jets and attack helicopters, firing warning shots, after North Korean drones “violated” its airspace. The...
A record-breaking Iranian footballer who criticised the authorities’ crackdown on anti-regime protesters has said his family were prevented from leaving...
Droughts, floods, storms and hurricanes were among the most costly climate change-related disasters during 2022, according to a new report. The report by...
A war in Europe, the death of the Queen, record heatwaves and flooding, protests around the world and three prime ministers… it’s been quite a year...
Ukraine has said Vladimir Putin “needs to come back to reality” in response to the Russian president’s claim that he is ready to negotiate...
Russia’s foreign minister appears to have ended any immediate prospect for peace talks over the Ukraine war, days after Russia’s president said he...
The foreign secretary has accused the Taliban of “trying to erase women from society in Afghanistan” after its ban on female NGO workers forced aid...
China is to lift the requirement for international travellers to quarantine from 8 January in the latest break from its zero-COVID policy after protests. The...
Parts of the US could see nine inches of new snow today, in a sign that the winter blizzard causing chaos across North America is not over yet. The storm has...
A record-breaking Iranian footballer who criticised the authorities’ crackdown on anti-regime protesters has said his family were prevented from leaving...
At least 61 deaths have been linked to a severe storm that continues to batter the US and Canada. The US has recorded 57 fatalities, with a further four dead...
