Minister Zed Seselja will travel to Honiara, his office confirmed, despite his political party in Australia being in the grips of a close-fought federal election campaign. "My discussions will include the proposed Solomon Islands-China security agr...

Acute food and fuel shortages, alongside long daily electricity blackouts, have brought widespread suffering to the country's 22 million people in the most painful downturn since independence in 1948. Public anger has flared in recent weeks with cr...

Israeli troops launched a fourth day of operations around Jenin after an assailant from the district shot and killed three people in a Tel Aviv bar last week in an attack that stunned the country. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett overnight visited th...

The pragmatic and business-friendly Shehbaz Sharif faces daunting challenges as leader -- among them relations with a neighbour his country has fought three wars against in the past 75 years. But he hails from an elite political family seen in Indi...

From plans for liquefied natural gas terminals in northern Germany, Finland and France to potential new routes through Spain and the Mediterranean, Europe is striving to rid itself of its dependence on Russian gas, though experts say the task will t...

The state's premier Daniel Andrews praised the Commonwealth Games Federation for embracing Victoria's pitch, admitting that its model is "a bit riskier than just running it in the middle of a large city". The 2026 Games will be held in four regiona...

The site in the central city now called Kucova is being transformed into a modern NATO airbase, a symbol of Albania's westward shift -- and a key military buffer in Europe as Russia wages war in Ukraine. The renovation project was agreed in 2018 by...

Expecting her first child and with her due date just three weeks away, she arrived in the city of Lviv three days ago after fleeing Russian bombardment from her home in the south. "We left everything at home," said the 35-year-old travel agent, who...

Ukrainians 'surrounded' in Mariupol Ukrainian forces are "surrounded and blocked" in Mariupol as Russian forces push to take the city, Myhaylo Podolyak, an official from President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, tweets. The Ukrainian army insists that...

Russia is believed to be trying to connect occupied Crimea with Moscow-backed separatist territories Donetsk and Lugansk in Donbas, and has laid siege to the strategically located city, once home to more than 400,000 people. Ukrainian forces were "...

At least 21 people were dead after landslides slammed into several villages in Leyte province -- one of the hardest hit by the storm -- local authorities said. Three people were also killed in the central province of Negros Oriental and three on t...

The findings were in an independent "cultural and environmental" review of the Black Ferns, the New Zealand women's team, sparked by allegations from hooker Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate. She alleged in December on Instagram that she had suffered a men...

After a slow return to cinema-going after the Covid-19 pandemic, the film business will be hoping for a boost on the French Riviera when the 75th edition of the world's leading cinema festival returns from May 17 to 28. Tom Cruise is already confi...

Power alternated for decades until the 2010s between the two main parties -- the Socialists and Republicans -- before Emmanuel Macron took power in 2017 with a centrist platform. His meteoric emergence -- and pillaging of key traditional right and ...

Between 1864 and 1897, as French colonial troops advanced through Algeria, 2,100 people were tried by special or military courts and deported. They were sent in chains around 18,500 kilometres (11,500 miles) to the other side of the world, to a pen...