Heart-breaking images have shown women and children farewelling husbands and fathers in Russia after Putin mobilised the military.

North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw reports from outside the door of Tetsuya Yamagami, who assassinated Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022.

North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw reports from Nara near Kyoto in Japan, at the location where Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in July.

Christiane Amanpour refused to wear a head covering setting off an incident that underscored tensions over women’s rights in Iran.

“The consequences of even a so-called ‘limited nuclear war’ would be absolutely catastrophic,” said the director of the Arms Control Association.

The foreign minister encouraged Beijing to intervene to help stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as she met her Chinese counterpart to discuss issues including their countries’ long-running trade dispute.

Former president Donald Trump said he can declassify documents simply by thinking about it.

A deadly 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan province.

Until now, the Russian capital could pretend it was not the capital of the country fighting the largest war of the 21st century.

A man onboard an American Airlines flight was arrest in Los Angeles on Thursday.

A United Airlines flight was forced to return to its departure airport after sparks were filmed streaming from the aircraft.

“Everyone’s struggling with the cost of living,” said one Cornish pub owner. “It’s getting out of control.”

Less than two days after Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s biggest conscription since World War II, a diplomatic showdown erupted at the UN between Russian, Ukrainian and Western diplomats. 

Women have played a prominent role in the demonstrations, waving and burning their veils, with some cutting their hair in public in a direct challenge to clerical leaders.

Some Russians detained while protesting against President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilisation have been handed draft papers while in custody, the OVD-Info rights group said on Thursday.

This weekend, Italians go to the polls to elect a new government. Barring a massive turnaround, this will be a government of two major firsts.

Former US President Donald Trump has been hit with a civil lawsuit, accusing him of fraudulently over-valuing his assets by billions.

The Security Council meeting comes a day after Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russians to fight in Ukraine.

In the final decision of the UN-backed war crimes tribunal, Khieu Samphan failed to overturn convictions for his part in one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century.

Fu Zhenghua was handed a suspended death sentence that will be commuted to life imprisonment for accepting bribes.