Russia’s top diplomat warns the west against provoking “world war III” in a television interview where he lashed out at US claims that Putin’s army was failing.

Peter Khalil says he’s dedicated to fighting for freedom across the world in his new role.

The world’s most incendiary past president says he is not coming back to the platform that banned him after the Capitol riots. But the Democrats don’t buy it.

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Ukraine has accused Russian soldiers of using rape as a tactic to humiliate civilians. As investigators begin to gather testimony, this is one woman’s story.

Those behind a Tinder swindle scam who conned a NZ woman out of half a million dollars appear to have been targeting women around the world using the same methods.

People in towns and cities in western Ukraine are taking the first steps on the road to recovery as Russia redirects its invasion effort to the east.

Elon Musk to purchase social media giant Twitter in US$44 billion deal.

Melissa Lucio had been set for lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah in Harlingen, a city of about 75,000 in Texas’ southern tip.

A man has been arrested after four people were found dead with multiple stab wounds in London.

The new UNDRR report said increasingly frequent and intense disasters have killed or affected more people in the last five years than in the previous five-year period.

In a lengthy interview with Piers Morgan, the 75-year-old gave a cryptic response to his US presidential election hopes ... and fears the world is “going to be blown to pieces”.

As both sides in the two-month-old war brace for what could be a grinding battle of attrition in the country’s eastern industrial heartland, top US officials pledged more help to ensure Ukraine prevails.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s political opponents are calling on voters to deny him a parliamentary majority.

People who move to the UK can have income earned in their home country exempt from UK tax. This may change under Labour.

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 ANZAC day dawn service has been held in Gallipoli for the first time in two years.

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.