The defeat of PM Janez Jansa by former executive Robert Golob is a blow to his ally, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, and his hero Donald Trump.

The US has now promised more than $5 billion in aid to Ukraine for the fight against the Russian invasion.

Emmanuel Macon understands the importance of the French in the Pacific as a counter to China.

Online and brick-and-mortar grocery stores have sold out of fresh food, kitchen staples and other basics such as masks and antiseptic.

Like many modern day romance stories, it began by swiping right on Tinder. What followed has left one woman hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket by a man she believed was the love of her life.

80 years ago, after incredible adventures in the New Guinea jungle, an Australian fighter pilot, who had been shot down by Japanese over a fortnight ago, returned to the Advanced Allied Base.

When Russian tanks began rolling over Ukraine’s border on February 24, many expected an online throw-down of epic proportions.

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The former ambassador to Papua New Guinea warns that other island nations in the Pacific are being courted by Beijing right now.

The saboteurs drew inspiration from an earlier episode in Belarusian history, during World War II, when Belarusians opposed to the Nazi occupation blew up railway lines and train stations to disrupt German supply lines.

Women, the obese and those who ended up on a ventilator were most likely to struggle with long COVID-19, a new British study has found.

Democrats see Republican’s private comments as proof that GOP lawmakers at the highest levels privately acknowledge Trump’s role in the insurrection at the Capitol yet continue to defend him in public.

Pakistan, which has not confirmed any involvement in airstrikes inside Afghanistan’s borders, said the two countries are “brotherly countries”.

France, like many western democracies, is bearing witness to the destructive social forces unleashed by politicians from the fringes. It is a nation whose fault lines – economic, geographic and generational – run deeper than ever.

Emmanuel Macron has won a second term as French president, heading off what would have been a political earthquake.

Gerhard Schroder has been ostracised in his home country for being a Putin apologist. But the man who leads Russian gas companies making millions is unapologetic.

Citizens in war-torn Ukraine attend funerals, clean up debris and seek safety in the face of the ongoing Russian attack.

Emmanuel Macron is the front-runner but he faces a tough challenge from far-right rival Marine Le Pen.

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The general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said on Sunday that the Russians had fired on Ukrainian positions along the entire line of contact on the war’s 60th day.

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa is being challenged by the Freedom Movement party in an election today seen as a barometer for democracy in the EU.

The law will also force tech companies to make it easier for users to flag problems and ban online ads aimed at children.

Four candidates will be chosen to fill a five-month role at Port Lockroy, or the “Penguin Post Office” on British-owned Goudier Island in the Antarctic.

Professional provocateur Piers Morgan will be the star of Rupert Murdoch’s re-entry to the world of British TV news talk on a reported £50m deal.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he would meet on Sunday with the US secretary of state Antony Blinken, and the US secretary of defence Lloyd Austin. 

An explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria killed more than 100 people overnight, a local government official said.

If the far-right’s Marine Le Pen wins on Sunday, she aims to leave NATO and ban the hijab. But voters feel Emmanuel Macron has become President for the rich.

American officials told Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare the security pact between Solomon Islands and China has security risks for the region.

A Russian general said earlier that full control over southern Ukraine would give Moscow access to a Russian-occupied part of Moldova in the west.

Russia’s Defence Ministry has said its forces captured an arms depot in the Kharkiv region.

Rio’s top samba schools have begun putting on their delayed Carnival parades, their first after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19-pandemic.

Our instructions – only in Portuguese – include how we must dress, how we must behave, and how we must respect the hierarchy of the school during the parade.

The tweets and photos accuse the French of leaving mass graves in Mali. Spies have captured videos showing otherwise.

In recent years, NZ has faced questions about its reliability as an intelligence partner because of China’s trade power. That’s changing.

Former Olympics gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 38, has been out of the spotlight. Her family has reportedly received property and favours from the Russian president.

Roman columns taken from an amphitheatre and reassembled in Windsor Great Park were illegally removed from Tripoli in the 19th century, lawyers for Libya say.

A bombing at a mosque and religious school in Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is the first Western leader to issue such a negative assessment of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Despite the contretemps over submarines, Emmanuel Macron is a much safer bet for Australia than his far-right rival.

Richard Branson has appealed directly to Singapore’s president and prime minister to spare Nagen’s life and warned of potential financial ramifications if the execution goes ahead.

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Videos shot inside the building showed an amount of carnage that has become all too familiar in Afghanistan over four decades of conflict.

Three dehydrated and malnourished kangaroos were discovered this month hopping on the road in West Bengal, a hotbed of animal trafficking.

After two days of softball questioning from his legal team, the actor was confronted by ugly videos, texts and photos submitted as evidence he was abusive.

Unusually for Russia, where the propaganda machine and fear of retribution reign, these families are voicing their anger.

In his tweets, public remarks and policies at the businesses he runs, Musk shows little tolerance for speech that’s unflattering to him or his companies, or reflects employee criticism of the workplace.

As Russia focuses its attention on south-east Ukraine, people in other parts of the country face a massive clean-up effort as they return to their homes – or where they used to stand.

And he was not the only one. Super-long COVID has been detected in some patients, whose PCR tests show a single infection lasting months.

It is the first time Portuguese prosecutors have identified an official suspect since Kate and Gerry McCann were named in 2007. They were later cleared.

Videos published by TMZ appear to show the former boxer-turned-cannabis-businessman assaulting a man who sat behind him in first class.