The allied effort to train Ukrainian recruits accomplished a major achievement this week when Ukraine confirmed 5,000 of its troops had been put through the British-led program.

Trevali Mining Corp. has confirmed that two executives have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the West African nation of Burkina Faso in the wake of a flooding disaster at the company's Pe...

There's not much left of Hrakove, Ukraine — its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull and the church is scarred by rockets and shells.

A right-wing bloc that includes a nationalist anti-immigration party won a narrow majority in Sweden's parliament on Wednesday. It was a major political shift in the Scandinavian country that had a de...

Yvon Chouinard, the billionaire founder of outdoor apparel brand Patagonia said Wednesday that he's giving away the company to a trust that will use its profit to fight the climate crisis. ...

Many Afghans are following news of a reversal in girls' school openings in eastern Paktia province for clues on whether the Taliban will loosen restrictions on girls' education after reneging on a ple...

The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, urging nations to keep up their efforts against the virus that ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is keeping the West guessing about whether Beijing will co-operate with tougher sanctions on Russia as he meets President Vladimir Putin a year after declaring they had a "no...

Alabama says it could soon be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia. The move comes as states that carry out the death penalty have increasingly encountered difficulty i...

Household staff who served King Charles while he was heir to the British throne have already been told they could lose their jobs, drawing criticism from a labour union that called the move "heartless...

While Russia may be in retreat in northeastern Ukraine, the government in Kyiv has signalled once again that it’s looking beyond the current war for long-term security guarantees from western allie...

Rescuers searched for a person missing in a mudslide Tuesday as big yellow tractors plowed through dark, thick sludge and pushed boulders off roads after flash floods swept dirt, rocks and trees down ...

A U.S. federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former president Donald Trump's Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a ...

Non-binary athletes will be able to run in next year's Boston Marathon without having to register as members of the men's or women's divisions, race organizers announced Monday.

A majority of Twitter Inc's shareholders have voted in favour of the social media company's $44 billion US sale to Elon Musk, pushing the fate of the sale to a court showdown in October. ...

Pakistan scrambled to deliver aid to those most in need on Tuesday as the death toll from record-breaking floods rose further, with no respite in sight from the unprecedented monsoon rains. ...

The release of a multi-agency scientific report, led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), warns that the world is "going in the wrong direction" on climate change.

Fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan killed about 100 troops Tuesday as attacks on both sides fed fears of broader hostilities breaking out between the longtime adversaries. ...