In a matter of days US President Joe Biden's administration and Russia have made separate – but significant – moves aimed at influencing the outcome of the war in Ukraine, two months ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House.
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Ukraine has fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia for the first time, the BBC understands.
The war-torn country was previously restricted to using long-range missiles within its own borders.
Reports of the strikes come (...)
The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, on the grounds it would not have secured the release of hostages.
"We made clear throughout negotiations we (...)
The Russian Defense Ministry is claiming that Ukraine has launched US-supplied ATACMS missiles at Russian territory for the first time on Tuesday.
In a statement on Telegram, the ministry said Ukraine "struck a facility in the Bryansk region with (...)
The Russian military is accelerating its gains along the front line in Ukraine at a crucial time for the conflict.
Data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) shows that Russia has gained almost six times as much territory in 2024 as it did (...)
The US embassy in Kyiv has shuttered fearing an imminent "significant air attack" in Kyiv, according to a statement published on its website.
"Out of an abundance of caution, the embassy will be closed, and embassy employees are being instructed to (...)
US President Joe Biden has agreed to give Ukraine anti-personnel land mines, a US defense official told the BBC, a move seen as an attempt to slow Russian troops who have been steadily advancing in Ukraine's east in recent months.
The official, who (...)
In a move strongly condemned by the UK and US, Russia has vetoed a draft UK-backed Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy called the veto a "disgrace". But Russia accused the UK of (...)
President Joe Biden's apparent green light for Ukraine to strike Russia with US-made long-range missiles has caused consternation among some of Donald Trump's allies.
Trump himself has not commented, but he won the election after promising to end (...)
Russia says the use of US long-range missiles by Ukraine will lead to "an appropriate and tangible" response.
Such an attack inside Russian territory "would represent the direct involvement of the United States and its satellites in hostilities (...)
Sir Keir Starmer has met President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit and emphasized the importance of a "strong UK-China relationship" for both countries.
The meeting was the first time a UK prime minister has met the Chinese president in person since (...)
Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania has resigned following widespread protests against an investment deal, which opponents claim would increase Russian influence in the region.
Demonstrators in the capital, Sukhumi, stormed government buildings on 15 (...)
Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies, amid fresh warnings of possible Russian interference with global undersea infrastructure.
A communications cable between (...)
Vladimir Putin has approved changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal.
The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will be (...)
A "massive" Russian missile and drone attack has targeted power infrastructure across Ukraine, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
At least 10 people were killed in the strikes, which hit the capital, Kyiv, as well as multiple (...)
On Monday, millions of Swedes will start receiving copies of a pamphlet advising the population how to prepare and cope in the event of war or other unexpected crises.
"If crisis or war comes" has been updated from six years ago because of what the (...)
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Slovakia's capital on the 35th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to decades of communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia to oppose the policies of populist Prime Minister (...)
Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken after a long-awaited decision came from Washington giving permission for Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets deeper inside Russia.
But despite Zelensky pleading such permission for weeks, (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's crude oil exports in September rose to their highest level in 3 months, data from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) showed on Monday.
Exports in September rose by 0.080 million barrels per day to 5.751 million (...)
President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long-range missiles supplied by the US has sparked a furious response in Russia.
"Departing US president Joe Biden... has taken one of the most provocative, uncalculated (...)
A Russian-controlled segment of the International Space Station is leaking, allowing pressure and air to bleed out. The situation has reached a fever pitch as cosmonauts scramble to patch problem areas and officials from Russia's space agency, (...)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has called for accelerated mass production of exploding drones designed to crash into targets, state media said on Friday.
Kim said the development of the weapons in the country was going well, and stressed the need (...)
A hacker has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for laundering the proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts.
Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty last year in the case involving the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange being hacked (...)
A group of 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers known as the 'Anne of Kyiv' brigade, which has undergone two months of intense military training in eastern and southern France, is being put through its final paces before returning to Ukraine.
Once deployed, the (...)
Maria Troyanivska had come home early the night a Russian drone hit her bedroom.
"It flew in through the window, right into her room," her mother Viktoria tells the BBC. After the explosion, she and her husband Volodymyr ran from the next room to (...)
