Pyongyang has dramatically ramped up its sanctions-busting missile launches this year, conducting 15 weapons tests since January including firing an intercontinental ballistic missile at full range for the first time since 2017. The latest launch c...

As the count restarted from Thursday's complex proportional voting, the former political wing of the IRA paramilitary group had secured 18 seats for the 90-seat legislature. The party, which wants a referendum on reunifying Ireland a century after ...

US announces new weapons package US President Joe Biden announces a new $150 million weapons package to Ukraine, including artillery munitions and radar, while urging Congress to pass a $33 billion aid package including $20 billion in military aid. ...

Instead of referees locked away in video-replay bunkers, Union Radio's "VAR" is a simple WhatsApp group in which top brass discuss potential subjects, stories and interviews for each station under the company's media umbrella, sources tell AFP. Uni...

Chelsea FC said a group led by Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly would acquire the London club after agreeing terms in a deal worth £4.25 billion ($5.2 billion).

South America's third-largest economy is the biggest exporter of soybean meal and oil in the world, and only the United States and Brazil export more soybean grains. Soy represents nearly a third of Argentina's exports and in 2021 contributed $9 bi...

President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday will be inaugurated for a new term, making him the first French leader in 20 years to serve a second mandate following his election victory over far-right politician Marine Le Pen in the April 24 second round ...

The price of tickets means that most of those who waited up to two hours for the chance of a selfie next to the gold trophy will not see the games that start November 21. South Asia has contributed the biggest contingent to the army of labourers th...

Bang opposite, the Russians control the other bank of the Dnipro, the river that divides Ukraine between east and west. Planted in the sand is a slightly rusty sign asking people to pay attention -- a polite warning requesting not to disturb a neig...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korea's military said, three days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a hard line against the North.

Welcome to a Moscow exhibition depicting NATO's "crimes" amid Russia's military campaign in Ukraine. "NATO. A chronicle of cruelty" opened at the Museum of Contemporary Russian History in Moscow in early April, over a month after President Vladimir...

Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the IRA, looked set to claim top spot in elections in British-controlled Northern Ireland for the first time on Friday, a historic shift that could bring the once-remote prospect of a united Ireland closer.

Victory in Monday's election would cap a decades-long effort to rehabilitate the Marcos legacy after the patriarch was deposed and the disgraced clan chased into US exile. But the prospect of Ferdinand Marcos Jr moving back into the presidential pa...

President Emmanuel Macron is on Saturday to be inaugurated for a new term after his election victory over the far right made him the first French head of state for 20 years to win a second mandate.

Dozens more civilians were rescued Friday from the tunnels under the besieged Azovstal steel plant where Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol have been making their last stand to prevent Moscow's complete takeover of the strategically important port city...