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With his long black hair flowing beneath a traditional cap and over his masked face, a Taliban guard, machine gun in hand, indicated I should follow the doctor...

Author Sir Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after being stabbed, his agent has said, according to the Associated Press...

The suspect in the stabbing attack on Sir Salman Rushdie has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder – as new footage shows the immediate aftermath of the...

Author Salman Rushdie will likely lose an eye and has suffered severed nerves in an arm and damage to his liver after he was stabbed, his agent has said. The...

Author Sir Salman Rushdie, who has faced death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed “up to 15 times”, including in the neck...

Russia has reached a new low and is trying to “threaten the whole world” by shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian...

Satellite images appear to show several Russian warplanes at an airbase in Crimea have been damaged or destroyed. Ukraine’s air force said on Wednesday...

The people of Gaza are taking their first tentative steps towards normality after three days of violence in the territory. The latest episode began last Friday...

Russian authorities have raided the home of a former state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest against the war in Ukraine. Marina...

At 4pm last Friday, residents of an apartment building on Al-Shohada Street in Gaza were eating, sleeping or relaxing on their day off. Then, the Israelis...

The drought scorching much of the European Union is set to be the worst endured since the sixteenth century, a senior scientist at the European...

The FBI is searching Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, the former president has announced. “These are dark times for our...

China is extending threatening military exercises around Taiwan that have already disrupted shipping and air traffic, further fuelling concerns about potential...

Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have agreed to a ceasefire following a weekend of fighting. The stoppage has been called for 11.30pm local time (9.30pm...

A second senior Islamic Jihad commander has been killed in an Israeli airstrike as a surge of fighting continues in Gaza. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad...

In the Balkans, Europe is watching as a crisis slowly develops. A familiar problem, in a familiar place, but now with the added prospect of Russian...