Russia yesterday condemned an executive order by US President Donald Trump to build a new missile defence shield, accusing the United States of trying to upset the global nuclear balance and pave the wave for military confrontation in space.
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.
A Ukrainian rocket attack on the Russian city of Belgorod killed at least six people and wounded over a dozen others yesterday, officials said.
Humanitarian chiefs said yesterday they had run out of words to describe the horrors unfolding in Gaza, stressing that states and especially Israel could not “offload” responsibility for the carnage onto aid workers.
A large fire broke out at Sweden’s largest amusement park in Gothenburg yesterday, engulfing a newly built water park in flames, authorities said, with a dozen people sustaining minor injuries.
Russia launched drone attacks overnight on Kyiv and southern Ukraine, injuring at least one civilian and damaging a gas pipeline and residential buildings in the river and sea port of Mykolaiv, Ukraine’s military said yesterday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone yesterday and both rejected what they called US interference in the affairs of other countries, the Kremlin said.
Europe’s CERN laboratory revealed more details Monday about its plans for a huge new particle accelerator that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ramping up efforts to uncover the underlying secrets of the universe.
Water scarcity could affect three billion more people than previously expected by mid-century, with increased pollution rendering river sources “unsafe” for humans and wildlife, researchers warned yesterday.
Canada on Sunday announced a two-year extension to a ban on foreign ownership of Canadian housing, saying the step was aimed at addressing worries about Canadians being priced out of housing markets in cities and towns across the country.
Chile began an official two-day mourning period yesterday for the 112 so far killed in the South American country’s deadliest wildfires in recent history, while authorities continued to battle blazes fanned by high temperatures and strong winds.
Britain’s King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and the 75-year-old will postpone public-facing duties while he undergoes treatment, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
