Sunak: ‘A man is a man, and a woman is a woman’
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday that “a man is a man and a woman is a woman” and people should not be bullied into believing they can ...
Ukraine needs to face up to prospect of long war
Recovering from his third battlefield injury, Oleksandr Yabchanka had a warning for those Ukrainians he said may be burying their heads in the sand over the war with Russia.
“Guys, ...
They’re just meat’: Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin
Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts.
They’re among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who’ve been pressed into Russian penal units known as “Storm-Z” squads and sent to the ...
Pennsylvania mummy ‘Stoneman Willie’ to receive proper burial after 128 years
A mummified man known as Stoneman Willie will receive a proper burial after being on display at a funeral home in Reading, Pennsylvania, for 128 years.
The unidentified man was an ...
Turkey arrests 145 people over suspected links to Kurdish militants
Turkish police detained about 145 people across the country overnight suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), state media reported on Tuesday, two days after a bomb attack ...
Cutting government staff, UK Chancellor tries to defuse tax cut row
British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt set out plans on Monday to cut the number of public officials working in government to save 1 billion pounds, an attempt to appease critics in the ...
After Ankara bombing, Turkey hits back in Iraq and at home
Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in ...
EU ministers convene in Ukraine to show support after US, Slovakia wobbles
EU foreign ministers convened in Kyiv for their first ever meeting outside the bloc on Monday, broadcasting their support after a pro-Russian candidate won an election in Slovakia and the ...
UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh as ethnic Armenian exodus nears end
A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported, as a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region began drawing to a close following a Azerbaijani ...
UK PM Sunak says there are no plans for now to send British troops to Ukraine
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday there were no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, rowing back from reported comments by his defence minister that he ...
Bomb attack targets Turkish capital, Kurdish militants claim responsibility (Update 2)
Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara on Sunday, leaving both of them dead and two police officers wounded, and a Kurdish militant group ...
US soldier Travis King heads home after North Korea expels him (Updated)
Private Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is in U.S. custody and heading home after being expelled by North Korea into China, ...
Spain’s Feijoo kicks off long-shot bid to form government
Spain’s rightwing opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo on Tuesday launched a likely fruitless bid to form a government following a July election in which no party won a majority.
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UK killer nurse Letby to be re-tried over one alleged attempted murder
British nurse Lucy Letby, jailed for life for murdering seven babies at the hospital where she worked, will face a re-trial over an accusation she had tried to kill another ...
Italian Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies of cancer months after capture
Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was convicted of multiple murders and was arrested in January after spending 30 years on the run, has died of cancer, officials said on ...
Karabakh’s 120,000 Armenians start leaving for Armenia (Update 3)
The 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will leave for Armenia as they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and fear ethnic cleansing, the leadership of the breakaway region ...
Italy criticises Germany for funding migrant charity groups
A German plan to finance charities helping migrants in the Mediterranean causes difficulties for Italy, defence minister Guido Crosetto said on Sunday, as Rome tries to enforce tougher measures to ...
Russia’s Lavrov doesn’t reject UN bid to revive Black Sea deal, but says unrealistic
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday portrayed the United States and Europe as “looking down” on the rest of the world amid a battle to win over developing ...
Ukrainian heavy artillery inflicts ‘hell’ on Russian lines near Bakhmut
The use of heavy weapons supplied by the West in the fierce battle raging on the outskirts of Bakhmut, which was captured by Russia in May, is inflicting a significant ...
Pope Francis moved as Reuters photographer shows him child migrant picture
Pope Francis was moved as he was shown a picture of a migrant child by Reuters photographer Yara Nardi during his flight to a Church conference on Mediterranean issues in ...
Lebanese army says it exchanged tear gas, smoke bomb fire with Israel
Lebanon’s army said it fired tear gas at Israeli forces over the border on Saturday in response to smoke bombs fired at its troops, though Israel said Lebanon started ...
NASA’s first asteroid sample on track for Sunday parachute landing in Utah
A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge ...
Landslide causes large chunk of Swedish motorway to collapse
A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday.
The landslide damaged the ...
Russia says Karabakh Armenian fighters start giving up arms
Russia said that Armenian fighters in the breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh had started to give up arms as some humanitarian aid reached the 120,000 Armenians there who say the world ...