At least five people have been killed and four others injured in a gas explosion in a residential building in southern Russia.
The blast occurred early in the morning in the city of Cherkessk in the Karachay-Cherkessia region, which borders Georgia, (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has overseen an extensive nuclear exercise simulating a retaliatory strike involving missile launches, putting Russia's nuclear capabilities front and center as tensions with the West over Ukraine continue to (...)
Thousands of Georgians gathered outside parliament on Monday night to protest against what the president claims was a 'rigged' parliamentary election with the help of Russia.
"You did not lose the election," President Salome Zourabichvili told the (...)
North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia and are operating in the Kursk border region where Ukrainian troops have a foothold, Nato has said for the first time.
The alliance's Secretary General, Mark Rutte, said he could confirm the (...)
Georgia's prime minister has hailed a "landslide" election result, rejecting allegations of vote-rigging and violence.
"Irregularities happen everywhere," Irakli Kobakhidze of the Georgian Dream party told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in an exclusive (...)
Moscow and Kyiv exchanged accusations on Sunday regarding a series of drone attacks that occurred overnight. A statement from the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that the country's air defenses successfully downed 51 Ukrainian drones across seven (...)
For years, Western critics have dismissed Brics as a relatively inconsequential entity.
But this past week, at its annual summit in Russia, the group triumphantly showcased just how far it has come.
Top leaders from 36 countries, as well as the UN (...)
Geoff Capes, the British shot put record holder and two-time world's strongest man, has died aged 75.
Capes set the record for the longest shot put by a British man with a distance of 21.68m in 1980.
In a statement, Capes' family said: "The family (...)
The deputy head of the political wing of Hamas, Musa Abu Marzouk, has visited Moscow to discuss the potential release of Russian nationals being held hostage in Gaza.
He met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who also serves as (...)
This week in the city of Kazan President Putin will greet more than 20 heads of state at the Brics summit of emerging economies. Among the leaders invited are China's Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Masoud (...)
South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador, seeking the "immediate withdrawal" of North Korean troops which it says are being trained to fight in Ukraine.
About 1,500 North Korean soldiers, including those from the special forces, have already (...)
The Russian Defense Ministry said 110 drones were destroyed in the overnight barrage against seven Russian regions. Many targeted Russia's border region of Kursk, where 43 drones were reportedly shot down.
Social media footage appeared to show air (...)
Moldova's referendum on whether to change its constitution and commit to joining the EU hangs in the balance, with the No and Yes votes neck and neck.
With Yes on 49.6% and No on 50.3% — with 97% of the vote counted — it is a result few were (...)
Citizens of Moldova are heading to the polls on Sunday for a presidential election and a referendum on EU membership.
Voting began at 7 a.m. local time and will conclude at 7 p.m. (0400-1600 GMT), with over 1,100 local and 280 foreign observers (...)
Russia and Ukraine successfully carried out a prisoner exchange on Friday, with 95 soldiers from each side being released, according to official reports.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the exchange took place on October 18, facilitated (...)
North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine, South Korea's spy agency has said as Seoul warned of a "grave security threat".
The allegation comes a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed 10,000 (...)
A Russian man has been rescued after spending more than two months adrift in a small inflatable boat in the Sea of Okhotsk in the far east of Russia.
Officials say a man, named by Russian media as Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was found by a fishing boat (...)
Russian missiles have hit a civilian container ship at a port in Ukraine's Odesa region, killing eight people, according to local officials.
"This is the third attack on a civilian vessel in the past four days," said the region's governor, Oleh (...)
Viktor Orbán and Ursula von der Leyen clashed head-on during a fiery debate at the European Parliament on Wednesday that saw both leaders portray opposing visions for Europe's future and lay bare their strong dislike for each other.
Russia's war in (...)
Ildar Dadin, a well-known Russian opposition activist who was fighting in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv, has been killed in action, according to the group that recruited him.
A spokeswoman for that group, the Civic Council, told the BBC that Dadin had (...)
Russian troops have taken complete control of the eastern city of Vuhledar, which Ukrainian forces have been defending since the beginning of Moscow's full-scale invasion two and a half years ago.
Ukraine's eastern military command confirmed on (...)
Despite harsh criticism for his earlier mediation efforts, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán seems undeterred — and is again busy rounding up world countries to push for his peacemaking plan for Ukraine.
On the sidelines of last week's UN (...)
Austria's far-right Freedom Party has opened the door to a new era, its leader Herbert Kickl has told supporters, as they celebrated an unprecedented election victory.
Projected results gave Kickl's party 28.8% - more than two points ahead of the (...)
The Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington, as a feud between the Republican Party and Volodymyr Zelensky escalates.
Johnson's intervention comes after President Zelensky visited an arms (...)
Vladimir Putin says Russia would consider an attack from a non-nuclear state that was backed by a nuclear-armed one to be a "joint attack", in what could be construed as a threat to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine.
In key remarks on (...)
