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…
Several French prisons were attacked overnight in response to government efforts to clamp down on drug trafficking, senior officials…
Police have arrested two people suspected of breeding and selling exotic cats in Spain. Officers detained the pair at…
The proposal, received by Hamas on Monday, outlines an initial framework for a 45-day truce in the Palestinian enclave…
Israeli ministers have redoubled their attacks on the embattled head of the country’s security agency, claiming he is undermining…
Voters in Ecuador are casting their ballots in a presidential runoff election between conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist…
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…
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism and who once…