Geoeconomic confrontation — ranging from sanctions to tariffs — is the top threat, found the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Risks Report on the eve of its annual meeting gathering the world's bus...
The US military meanwhile has moved more military assets toward the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and associated warships....
European Council President Antonio Costa said the EU was weighing a joint response to the Trump administration's efforts to acquire Greenland. Follow the latest....
On Thursday, the French president offered his New Year's address to the armed forces. The eagerly awaited annual event comes amid multiple geopolitical crises....
US military forces boarded and seized a seventh oil tanker linked to Venezuela, the US Southern Command said on Tuesday, as the administration of Donald Trump steps up efforts to curb Caracas’s oil ex...
President Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland is creating a rift between the US and other NATO allies, fracturing the alliance and “playing straight into Russia’s hands,” said Jean-François Bélanger, ...
The United States said on Wednesday it is launching the second phase of its plan to end the Gaza war, even as key elements of the first phase - including a complete ceasefire between Israel and Hamas...
A Japanese prefecture is taking an innovative approach to keeping bears away: drones. ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images A Japanese city is taking an innovative approach to keeping bears away: drones....
The conflict in South Sudan seems to have flared up again. A peace agreement signed in 2018 had brought a period of relative stability, but that progress is now falling apart. Fighting has erupted in ...
The number of people killed in protests against the Iranian regime has been rising since demonstrations began in late December. An NGO reported on January 20 that more than 4,500 people had been kille...
A commuter train near Barcelona ploughed into the rubble of a collapsed wall on January 20, killing one and injuring dozens. The latest incident is likely to raise more questions about Spanish transpo...
Hong Kong air travellers are being advised to leave their power banks at home and bring charging cables as a group of South Korean airlines becomes the latest to ban the use of the portable batteries ...
A generation ago, the people of Okinawa in Japan were recognised as among the longest-lived in the world, fortunate residents of one of just five “blue zones” around the planet where a combination of ...
Firefighters in Karachi began searching on Monday for more than 60 missing people after a massive fire destroyed a shopping centre in Pakistan’s most populous city, while the death toll from the disa...
Despite US President Donald Trump’s insistence on acquiring Greenland, public support for the idea remains low. A Reuters/Ipsos poll of US residents this week showed that fewer than one in five respon...
Salamanca's mayor said the attack was part of a "crime wave" in the city and appealed to President Claudia Sheinbaum to help control the violence....
Of the six people presumed dead, two were teenagers. The coroner's office warned that identifying the human remains could be a long and complex process....
Two fuel shipments from Azerbaijan to Armenia in recent months have made groundbreaking changes - not only to the reconciliation process between the countries, but to reshaping the Armenian market by ...
The attack represents the first known strike against alleged drug-trafficking boats since the US military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on January 3....
The board originated in the US president's 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan endorsed by the UN Security Council, but has expanded far beyond its initial mandate....