The landmark visit will see King Mohammed VI welcome Sanchez as his guest of honour for iftar, the meal where Muslims break their daytime fast during the holy month of Ramadan. The visit by Sanchez and his foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, aim...

In Chuhuiv, thousands of Ukrainians have been living underground since the war started nearly six weeks ago. This small town south-east of Kharkiv has been caught in the crossfire – until recently cut off from the outside world when it was surr...

The eight men held in the Melbourne facility were originally in a group of refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from offshore facilities to receive medical care. They were then detained for several years. Djokovic's detention in Jan...

The world's most populous country is glued to an aggressive "zero-Covid" strategy, with Beijing extracting political value from China's relatively low death rates since the pandemic began and gloating over its handling of the virus compared to Weste...

The city's airport was previously one of the world's busiest but has been largely cut off throughout the pandemic as Hong Kong hews to China's strict zero-Covid policy. "Circuit breaker" rules mean any airline that brings in three or more infected ...

The artist, whose real name was Motoo Abiko, was found outside his home near Tokyo on Thursday, private broadcaster TBS and others said. Police declined to confirm the reports to AFP, but tributes to Abiko were tweeted by other artists and those in...

IBF world champion "GGG" Golovkin (41-1-1, with 36 KOs) is favourite to beat Murata (16-2), who holds the WBA version of the title, in Saitama, north of Tokyo. The hard-hitting Kazakh will turn 40 on Friday and has not fought since December 2020, w...

Russian troops have been withdrawing from around the capital and Ukraine's north, leaving a trail of destruction behind them, as they prepare for an expected assault on the country's southeast. The scenes of carnage left behind by retreating troop...

"I irreversibly delegate to this presidential leadership council my full powers," President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said in a televised statement early Thursday, the final day of peace talks held in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Hadi's internationally r...

Russian and Belarusian athletes living in their respective countries are barred from the April 18 race, the Boston Athletic Association said. However, Russian and Belarusian citizens not residing in either country would be allowed to take part, but...

In the middle of the Kruger National Park, South Africa's most celebrated wildlife reserve, this luxury train takes passengers -- but it never moves. Converted into a boutique hotel, the train provides a gilded lookout from which guests can gaze ov...

Broadcasters are already playing catch-up with online gaming giants in the battle for the attention of young audiences and the advertising dollars that follow. On the horizon is the so-called "metaverse" -- a loose term covering the growing eco-sy...

The mayor of the besieged port city of Mariupol put the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000, as Ukraine collected evidence of Russian atrocities on the ruined outskirts of Kyiv and braced for what could become a climactic battle for ...

The latest sordid massacre saw 20 inmates killed -- some mutilated -- last Sunday in the El Turi penitentiary in the southern city of Cuenca. It was the fifth such mass murder in a prison riot since February 2021. The government blames these horro...

Yasmine and Jacki, a couple from Israel, have dreamed of having a boy. Israeli laws strictly regulate selecting a child's sex. So the couple drove three hours from their home in the suburbs of Jerusalem to a clinic in Nablus in the occupied West Ba...