A Russian drone attack that targeted cities across Ukraine killed at least four people in a Soviet-era residential block in the eastern city of Sumy, the interior ministry said yesterday.
A new strain of bird flu has been confirmed at a duck farm in California, the first time the variant has been discovered in poultry in the United States, an international agency said.
Nordic leaders met on the weekend and reiterated they are united on defence issues, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said, as her country reels from US President Donald Trump’s attempts to take over Greenland.
Italy yesterday resumed the transfer of migrants to its controversial centres in Albania, sending 49 asylum seekers to its maritime neighbour, the interior ministry said.
Rudiger Koch, 59, emerged from his 30-square-meter (320-square-foot) home under the sea
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday in which he proposed further developing their strategic partnership just hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president.
Americans will be hit by a “Trump tariffs tax” if the US president-elect increases customs duties on Canadian products, the Canadian foreign minister said Friday, pledging a hard-hitting response in any trade war.
Britain’s competition watchdog yesterday launched an investigation into Google’s dominant position in the search engine market and its impacts on consumers and businesses.
Russia arrested at least 13 people yesterday for vandalising polling stations on the first day of its presidential elections, officials said.
At least 3,000 more chemicals exist in plastics than previously estimated by environmental agencies, a report published on Thursday found, raising questions over pollution and consumer safety.
EU chief Charles Michel yesterday sarcastically congratulated Russia’s Vladimir Putin on winning reelection against no real opposition -- as voting was only just beginning.
Conditions affecting the nervous system -- such as strokes, migraines and dementia -- have surged past
The UK government yesterday unveiled a new definition of extremism to determine which organisations get public funds and meetings with officials, prompting criticism from civic, political and religious groups.
Russia’s national guard yesterday said it was fighting off attacks from pro-Ukrainian groups in the region of Kursk, the latest in a recent string of clashes at the border.
President Vladimir Putin yesterday urged Russians to stay the course in the face of a “difficult period”, hours before polls open in a vote set to extend his hardline rule.
The EU yesterday wielded a powerful new digital law to press TikTok and seven other platforms on the AI risks for upcoming elections in the 27-nation bloc, including from deepfakes.
The European Parliament yesterday gave final approval to the world’s most far-reaching rules to govern artificial intelligence, including powerful systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria will visit Bangladesh from March 18 to 21 to get a glimpse of the country’s development journey as well as to study the progress and ongoing challenges in the implementation of the SDGs.
