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Igor Girkin, a former Russian intelligence officer criticised Russia's failure in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people.

Macron to visit China after Beijing's Ukraine peace plan.

Parents of children found watching Hollywood films will be sent to prison camps for six months, whereas the children face a harsher term.

Ajay Banga, U.S. President Joe Biden's pick to run the World Bank, will face a tough slate of issues around the institution's finances and capital structure.

In Turkey's only remaining ethnic Armenian village, Vakifli, the elderly population thank God that not one of them died during the devastating earthquakes that struck the region.

A former Russian Federal Security Service general accused Vladimir Putin of being "terribly terrified" since his failure to capture Ukraine.

Thérèse Coffey sparked controversy with her remarks while addressing the House of Commons regarding the shortage of vegetables in supermarkets.

Enid Blyton wrote the bulk of her work between 1928 and 1960, and is known to be one of the most popular and controversial children's authors of her times.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan next week, the State Department said Thursday, courting former Soviet republics uneasy over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Philippine President Ferdinand "BongBong" Marcos Jr. has visited nine countries in the eight months since he first assumed position.

An 11-year-old girl died in Cambodia's eastern Prey Veng province after being infected by the bird flu virus.

A woman locked herself and her 10-year-old son in their home for three years in the fear that they might contract Covid-19 infection.

The Land Rover is currently being resold by the auction house Silverstone Auction at Stoneleigh Park, in the UK, as part of their Race Retro auction.

The war in Ukraine dragged into its second year on Friday, with no end in sight to a conflict launched by Russia that has killed tens of thousands of people, flattened cities and towns, forced millions to flee and brought a Cold War chill to global ties.

Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt to clear record levels of backlogs.

The European Commission has banned Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok from its employees' corporate phones for cybersecurity reasons, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Thursday, the first EU institution to do so.

Turkey's devastating earthquake will keep inflation above 40% in the run-up to elections scheduled for June and will necessitate an additional budget, a government official and four economists said.

Australia's centre-left government said on Thursday it would push ahead with plans to change superannuation rules, including restricting early access to funds until retirement and limiting tax breaks for high-earners.

Police in Northern Ireland said Thursday that they had arrested three men over the shooting of an off-duty officer, after declaring "violent dissident republicans" the "prime focus" of their investigation.

Former US President Donald Trump paid a visit to East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday.

A British beach is no longer safe to swim in for the rest of this year because of the presence of unsafe levels of bacteria in its waters.

A Pakistani minister has been accused of killing three people and hiding their bodies in a well near his house in the Barkhan district, Balochistan.

A Japanese startup, Iwaya Giken plans to start stratospheric balloon rides or commercial balloon rides later this year.

The National Assembly's deputy speaker Gladys Shollei on Tuesday ordered a parliamentary committee to get to the bottom of the allegations and file a report in two weeks.

Marking one year of war, Ukraine and Russia lobbied countries at the United Nations on Wednesday for backing ahead of a vote by the 193-member General Assembly that the United States declared will "go down in history."

Insight and analysis into the energy market from BDSwiss CEO MENA demonstrates the undetermined nature currently facing one of the world's leading markets.

Born an orphan under the rubble in north Syria after a devastating earthquake, Afraa al-Suwadi has been given a new lease on life when relatives took her in.

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State lost her latest appeal against the removal of her British citizenship, but her lawyers vowed to keep fighting and said the case was "nowhere near over".