One of Russia’s most outspoken generals, sacked and detained after a withering attack on the Defense Ministry two years ago, is returning to the front, according to his lawyer. But according to Russian state media, he’s been handed a poisoned chalice: front-line command of a notorious battalion of ex-prisoners that…
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism and who once…
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An Israeli air strike early on Sunday destroyed part of the last fully functioning hospital in Gaza City as…
Xi Jinping has appealed to Vietnam to join China in upholding multilateral trade, as he begins a high-stakes diplomatic…
New satellite images show what could be North Korea’s biggest warship ever – possibly more than double the size…
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of a major camp for displaced people in North Darfur, the paramilitary…
When US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink resigned her post two days ago, she was both under pressure from…