At the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, Russia is being accused of having caused a "global food crisis" and putting people at risk of "famine" by starting the war in Ukraine, which serves as a breadbasket for Europe. Ukraine and Russia, which...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having a "deadly" impact and threatening security in the Arab world, particularly through spiralling wheat prices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Algiers Wednesday.

Wyatt's outstanding 129, aided by five dropped catches and supported by Sophia Dunkley's 60, saw England post an imposing 293 for eight off their 50 overs at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. Sophie Ecclestone then produced the best bowling figures of t...

2022-03-31 10:04 'Mala Rogan may have been recaptured by the Ukrainians but there isn't much left of the village'

In December 2020, Luis Robles took to a central street in Havana with a handwritten sign reading: "Freedom, no more repression / free Denis" -- referring to the jailing of Cuban rapper and activist Denis Solis over a music video about repression on ...

Wrangling between rival Muslim Shiite blocs in the assembly on Wednesday scuppered the legislature's third attempt to elect a head of state. Though a largely ceremonial role, the president determines the country's next prime minister who will in tu...

The Russian defence ministry announced a local ceasefire Thursday to allow civilians to be evacuated from Ukraine's besieged port city of Mariupol. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Russia's vows to de-escalate fighting against i...

Now 38, he is back on the field after helping to form Surabaya amputee football club, or PERSAS. The team in Indonesia's second-largest city Surabaya started in February and currently has eight players, including Arifin, and big ambitions. "Foot...

2022-03-31 08:08 "There is a great deal of anxiety in Ukraine about what's to come'

India has abstained from UN resolutions censuring Russia, calling only for a cessation of violence, and continues to buy Russian oil and other goods. In her talks in New Delhi, Liz Truss will say that "Russia's invasion of Ukraine underlines the im...

"Officials of Solomon Islands and the People's Republic of China have initialled elements of a bilateral Security Cooperation Framework between the two countries today," said a statement from the prime minister's office in Honiara. It is now awaiti...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's future looked increasingly in doubt Wednesday after a key coalition partner switched allegiance ahead of a parliamentary no-confidence vote this weekend. 

A century after her ancestors arrived, Marcela Enns, 30, shares anecdotes and answers questions from her more than 350,000 followers with a mixture of pride, humor and sarcasm. Known on social media as Menonita Mexicana, Enns tries to dispel miscon...

Unruffled by defections and the rise of a far-right challenger, Marine Le Pen has steadied her ship in the final stretch of France’s presidential campaign, pulling ahead of rivals as she closes in on a replay of her 2017 duel with Emmanuel Macron....

Originally from Lebanon, Adnan Farid has seen his business in the western Czech spa city of Karlovy Vary dwindle from wonderful prosperity in the 1990s to much slower days now. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, wealthy Russians wh...