French military technology is being used in Sudan's brutal civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo, rights organization Amnesty International has said.
It says the Rapid Support Forces militia is using vehicles in the Darfur region supplied by (...)
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 (...)
A doctor has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for spreading false information about the Russian military, after the mother of one of her patients reported her to authorities.
Dr. Nadezhda Buyanova was first arrested in February (...)
US President-elect Donald Trump has named Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, author and military veteran, as his pick for defense secretary.
Hegseth, 44, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, will be responsible for the world's most powerful military in (...)
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Rep Michael Waltz, a Florida Republican, to serve as national security adviser, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
A veteran of the war in Afghanistan and a long-time Trump supporter, (...)
A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight into Sunday, injuring several people and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia's busiest airports, officials reported. Meanwhile, a huge night-time wave of Russian drones (...)
US President-elect Donald Trump has made two more key appointments ahead of his return to the White House in January.
Tom Homan, 62, will serve as Trump's "border tsar", having previously served as the returning president's acting director of (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying the comprehensive strategic partnership treaty between Russia and North Korea, according to state news agency TASS on Saturday.
The treaty, which was signed in Pyongyang on June 19, was (...)
President-elect Donald Trump put billionaire Elon Musk on the line with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the Ukrainian leader called to congratulate the incoming U.S. president, according to a Ukrainian official with direct knowledge of the phone (...)
Ukraine has officially terminated its air traffic agreement with Iran, a government official announced on Friday.
Taras Melnychuk, a representative of Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, confirmed the decision on Telegram, stating, (...)
Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, calling him a "courageous man".
Speaking at an event in the Russian city of Sochi, the Russian president said that Trump was "hounded from all sides" during his first term in the (...)
One of Russia's youngest political prisoners has lost an appeal to overturn a five-year jail sentence.
Arseny Turbin was only 15 when he was arrested in the summer of 2023.
Authorities accused him of joining the Freedom of Russia Legion — a (...)
As Vice President Kamala Harris conceded her loss to Donald Trump, some of her allies blamed her boss, Joe Biden, as they tried to make sense of her defeat.
"The biggest onus of this loss is on President Biden," said Andrew Yang, who ran against (...)
Germany's governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
The chancellor said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, (...)
The Eastern European country of Moldova is continuing efforts to attract overseas firms, as it tries to move past political uncertainty.
"I went with a backpack, and set up a business," says Dutch entrepreneur Luc Vocks, recalling how he moved to (...)
North Korean soldiers have clashed with Ukrainian troops for the first time, Ukraine's top officials have revealed.
In an interview with South Korean broadcaster KBS, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said a "small group" of North Korean (...)
Donald Trump will be America's 47th president, CNN projected Wednesday, after mounting the most momentous comeback in political history that will hand him massive, disruptive power at home and will send shockwaves around the world.
Four years after (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the UK's Keir Starmer have been among the first world leaders to congratulate Donald Trump on winning the US presidential election.
The election of a new president is not just a big deal for the US - a (...)
A series of parcel fires targeting courier companies in Poland, Germany and the UK were dry runs aimed at sabotaging flights to the US and Canada, Polish prosecutors say.
Katarzyna Calow-Jaszewska revealed late last month that four people had been (...)
Moldova's pro-EU President Maia Sandu has claimed a second term after a tense election run-off seen as a choice between Europe and Russia.
With most preliminary results counted, Sandu was leading with almost 55% of the vote, and in a late-night (...)
The European Union is ramping up preparations for the impending US presidential election on November 5, with a focus on defense and security implications, according to senior EU officials.
Anticipating changes that could redefine EU-US relations, (...)
The Pentagon announced an additional $425 million in military assistance to Ukraine on Friday, marking the Biden administration's sixty-ninth aid package since August 2021.
This latest tranche, aimed at bolstering Ukraine's defenses, includes air (...)
As she sweeps up broken glass outside her shop, Inna knows her country's future is in the hands of Americans voting more than 5,000 miles away.
"We hope that the woman, Kamala Harris, will win and support us," she says.
A Russian bomb had shattered (...)
The Biden administration has said that around 8,000 soldiers from North Korea are now in Russia near Ukraine's border and are preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days.
The new figure is a dramatic increase from (...)
North Korea has fired what appears to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said.
The launch comes at a time of deteriorating relations between the two Koreas and Pyongyang's (...)
