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The combined climate pledges of countries around the world set it on course for a dangerous 2.5C of warming, far higher than limit countries...

A Ukrainian minister has urged refugees who fled the country after Russia’s invasion to stay away this winter. Iryna Vereshchuk, a deputy prime minister,...

Global coronavirus cases are projected to rise slowly in the coming months to about 18.7 million per day by February. The current daily average...

The veteran LGBT activist and campaigner Peter Tatchell was stopped by police as he staged a protest in Qatar before the World Cup next...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has not received “a single cent” towards its $17bn fast recovery plan.  Addressing a Berlin conference on Ukraine’s reconstruction by...

Egypt has urged new prime minister Rishi Sunak not to ditch the UK’s climate leadership role just weeks before it takes over as host...

The American basketball star Brittney Griner has lost her appeal against a nine-year prison sentence. The all-star centre with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury who...

Russia has engaged in an unusual burst of contact with the West’s three nuclear powers to raise baseless claims about a dirty bomb plot...

In the centre of Kyiv – protected by checkpoints, sandbags, soldiers and guns – stands the city’s military heart. It is here that we...

Russia has engaged in an unusual burst of contact with the West’s three nuclear powers to raise baseless claims about a dirty bomb plot...

Russia Today has been accused of inciting genocide after a presenter said Ukrainian children who saw Moscow’s forces as occupiers under the Soviet Union...

Russian claims Ukraine could use a “dirty bomb” in the war have been branded “nuclear blackmail” and dismissed by the West. With its forces...

The blackouts in Kyiv creep up on you. There is no Hollywood moment when the whole city goes dark or when the twinkling lights...

It is a quiet street in a fairly tough part of Sao Paulo, but the sound of high velocity weapons firing and the thud...

Vladimir Putin would sacrifice 20 million Russian soldiers to win the war with Ukraine and ensure his political survival, an exiled Russian diplomat has...

History has been made in China after it was confirmed that President Xi Jinping will remain in power – breaking with a decades-long precedent...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Ukrainians to conserve electricity as Russian strikes devastate the country’s power supply. “The main target of terrorists is energy,” the...

Mina left solitary confinement a few days ago. She has now been arrested twice by Iranian forces for taking part in the protests sweeping...

Fear is a powerful thing and it is motivating many to leave the Ukrainian city of Kherson. With Ukrainian troops closing in on the...