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The UK will appoint a new envoy to oversee a plan to ramp up the production of weapons and ammunition, which is now a...

A young women’s rights activist from Afghanistan recently left the country and travelled to Iran. Women in both countries have few rights – but...

David Cameron has backed Ukrainian strikes against targets inside Russia using British-supplied weapons. Speaking in the Ukrainian capital, the foreign secretary said it was...

Russia has denied allegations of breaching the international chemical weapons ban by deploying chocking agents against Ukrainian troops. The Kremlin on Thursday responded to...

Iran is willing to “expend every Arab life” in its efforts to end Western influence in the Middle East and destroy Israel, a former...

The murder trial of a former senior politician in Kazakhstan who has been accused of beating his wife to death has attracted the attention...

Police in Georgia’s capital have used water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades against crowds outside the country’s parliament protesting against a bill the...

Police in riot gear are trying to break up protesters at a California university – hours after Columbia University in New York was raided....

An Israeli ground offensive in Rafah is “on the immediate horizon”, the UN’s aid chief has warned, as Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed that his forces...

Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he was told Ayrton Senna’s death in a Formula One race 30 years ago “would be the end of” the...

The grinding misery in Yemen just got worse. Yet while their own suffering goes on in virtual silence, they still protest in towns across...

Millions of people were plunged into darkness during the daytime on Monday as a total solar eclipse made its way across the United States...

A total solar eclipse plunged the skies along a swathe of North America into darkness. The moon completely blocked out the sun for more...

Millions of people were plunged into darkness this evening as the total eclipse made its way across the United States and eastern Canada, after...

A total solar eclipse is plunging the skies along a swathe of North America into darkness. The moon will completely block out the sun...

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after melting snow triggered the worst recorded flooding in Russia’s Ural mountains. Russia declared...

At least 94 people, including children, have died after a makeshift ferry sank off the northern coast of Mozambique, according to reports in the...

An engine cover has fallen off a Boeing plane and struck the wing flap – shortly after take-off in the US. Passengers filmed videos...

Sex change operations and surrogacy are “grave threats” to human dignity, the Vatican has declared in a new document that sets out its position...