Kyiv:  Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws formally absorbing four Ukrainian regions into Russia, even as its military struggles to control the territory that was illegally annexed. The documents...

London: The first speech by Liz Truss since taking charge as British Prime Minister to the Conservative Party's annual Tory conference in Birmingham on Wednesday was disrupted by Greenpeace protesters,...

Frankfurt: The OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting countries on Wednesday will debate a potentially large cut in the amount of crude it ships to the global economy — a move that...

Dubai:  Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday appealed for national unity and tried to allay anger against the country's rulers, even as the anti-government protests that have engulfed the country...

Brussels: The European Union added the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands to its tax haven blacklist on Tuesday, and also put Anguilla back on as a “non-cooperative jurisdiction”...

Kyiv: Ukrainian troops continued to push forward Monday with their offensive that has embarrassed Moscow, with Kyiv officials and foreign observers hinting at new gains in the strategic southern region...

Dubai:  Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and...

Malang (Indonesia): Panic and a chaotic run for exits after police fired tear gas at an Indonesian soccer match to drive away rampaging fans left at least 174 dead, most...

Istanbul: Turkish warplanes “neutralised” 23 Kurdish militants in a raid 140 kilometres (90 miles) inside Iraq, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry usually refers to killed militants...

Geneva: Western countries are leading a rare two-pronged push at the UN's main human rights body to better scrutinise the human rights records of two big world powers: China, over...