Poland's president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.
Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, (...)
Brussels has threatened Belarus with a fresh raft of sanctions after President Alexander Lukashenko looked certain to win his seventh consecutive election since 1994 — a vote broadly understood to be rigged in his favor given his iron rule over the (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the Ukraine crisis, which erupted in 2022, might have been avoided if Donald Trump had been reelected as the US president in 2020.
In an interview with the Russian Rossiya 1 TV channel on Friday, (...)
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to call what's happening this weekend in Belarus an election.
"It's a sham," the exiled opposition leader says. "This is a military-style operation; a performance staged by the regime to hold on to power."
For three (...)
Oil has leaked into the strait from two ships which ran into trouble during bad weather on 15 December. Volgoneft-239 ran aground following the storm, while Volgoneft-212 sank. Up to 5,000 tons of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official (...)
Ukraine reportedly hit a Russian oil refinery and targeted Moscow during an attack involving a wave of at least 100 drones, one of the largest single operations of its kind during the war.
Video footage verified by the BBC shows a fireball rising (...)
Donald Trump has warned he will impose high tariffs and further sanctions on Russia if Vladimir Putin fails to end the war in Ukraine.
Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, he said that by pushing to settle the war he was doing Russia (...)
Feel like airport security lines keep getting longer, or that you're booking hotel reservations way further in advance than you used to?
It's true. The UN's World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has just released its 2024 year-in-review data, (...)
Ukraine has detained its army's chief psychiatrist for alleged "illegal enrichment" charges related to earnings of more than $1m (£813,000) accrued since the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022.
In a statement, the Security Service of (...)
When Pte Oleksander Bezverkhny was evacuated to the Feofaniya Hospital in Kyiv, few believed he would live. The 27-year-old had a severe abdominal injury and shrapnel had ripped through his buttocks. Both his legs were amputated.
Then, doctors (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country's ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.
The two leaders have (...)
World leaders congratulated President Donald Trump on his inauguration Monday, with many urging stronger alliances or continued cooperation between their countries and the United States, in carefully crafted social media posts and (...)
Russia announced on Sunday that its forces had seized control of the village of Vozdvyzhenka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, as part of an ongoing offensive in the area.
According to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, Vozdvyzhenka, (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under fire from lawmakers from across the political spectrum — including his own foreign minister — for refusing to approve a further €3 billion in military aid for Ukraine unless it is funded with additional (...)
Senior UN officials have met Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss ways to strengthen humanitarian support for Ukraine.
That comes as the UN launched a humanitarian appeal for $3.32 billion (€3.22 billion) to support more than eight million people (...)
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to put Ukraine in the "strongest possible position" on a trip to Kyiv where he signed a "landmark" 100-year pact with the war-stricken country.
The prime minister's visit on Thursday was at one point marked by loud (...)
Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Kyiv to sign what Downing Street is calling a "landmark 100-year partnership" with Ukraine.
The pact would formalize economic and military support already pledged to the country, and offers more.
It is the prime (...)
Ukraine struck several targets deep inside Russia on Tuesday in what it says is its "most massive" attack of the war so far.
Ammunition depots and chemical plants were hit across several regions, some of which were hundreds of kilometers from the (...)
Ukraine struck Russian regions with a major drone and missile attack overnight, damaging at least two factories and forcing schools to close in a major southern Russian city, according to Russian officials and media.
The Shot Telegram channel said (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Council of Ministers reaffirmed that Syria must be free from terrorism and any aggression on its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman chaired the Cabinet session in Riyadh on (...)
An emergency task force arrived in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first detected, the Associated Press reported.
The task (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is willing to hand over the two captured North Korean soldiers back to Pyongyang in exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia.
"For those North Korean soldiers who do not wish to return, there (...)
Croatia's incumbent President Zoran MIlanović, a critic of the European Union and NATO, has overwhelmingly won another five-year term on Sunday, defeating a candidate from the ruling conservative HDZ party in a runoff vote, near-complete official (...)
Elon Musk praised the co-leader of the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "very reasonable" on Thursday, urging Germans to vote for the far-right party in what is the latest high-profile sign of the tech billionaire's involvement in (...)
NATO has taken over air defenses in Poland from the US just days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a NATO spokesman, with questions looming about the incoming administration's approach to the alliance and to (...)
