The finalist selections for this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition were just announced by the organizers at Oceanographic Magazine, featuring some of the best coas…
Exceptionally high revenues, particularly from war aid for Russia, are consolidating the power of North Korea's autocratic leader. A small number of people in the country are bene…
In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only “destroy Ukraine, not conquer it,” with the war now in its fifth year.
The EU and 32 other countries, including France, the UK and Canada, issued a joint statement condemning Iran's use of the death penalty, to which Iran responded by accusing them o…
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Rescuers are racing against a critical 72-hour window to find survivors after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that has killed 265 people, left hundreds missing, and displaced tens of t…
Repeated drone strikes on Libya's Zawiya refinery complex has put the country on high alert given its dependence on the centre for energy security and its push to raise crude prod…
Ukraine attacked Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan with drones. Radiy Khabirov, the region’s governor, said “drone debris” fell in an industrial zone in the city of Salavat, spar…
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam rejects Israel’s claim that villages destroyed in southern Lebanon were military sites.
Japan says it "strongly protests" Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to the disputed Kuril Islands. Tensions over the Russian-controlled archipelago, claimed partly by Japan,…
Current and former U.S. intelligence officials disclosed that American intelligence agencies harbored deep skepticism over Israeli reports alleging an Iranian p
The announcement of a new naval blockade threatens to restart full-scale war between Yemen's Houthis and Saudi Arabia