The small, dark workshop of the medieval combat enthusiast and self-taught blacksmith is full of swords and blades at various stages of manufacture, and designs for different pieces of armour. A mannequin sporting metal shoulder plates stands forg...

India, which imports much of its military hardware from Russia, has long walked a diplomatic tightrope between the West and Moscow, and has called only for an immediate end to hostilities. "My visit to Europe comes at a time when the region faces m...

Romania and Slovakia have taken in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of their country. In Slovakia on Sunday, celebrated as Mother's Day in the United States, Biden will travel to the city of Kosice and villag...

Most of Shanghai's 25 million residents have been confined to their homes for weeks as the city battles a major Covid outbreak. Hundreds of thousands of virus-positive people have been taken to makeshift facilities as China does not allow them to qu...

The landlocked African nation was thrown into turmoil after long-time leader Idriss Deby Itno died fighting rebels last April. His son Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno seized control but promised free elections this year. Ahead of these, he had wanted a n...

The shooting occurred during a Sunday march called by a union in the capital Santiago as some protesters erected barricades and entered commercial premises, clashing with merchants. "There were clashes between street vendors who unfortunately used ...

The former allrounder spoke publicly for the first time Monday about the court battles to clear his name spanning 2012 to 2015. Interviewed on a podcast hosted by media company NZME, Cairns said the high-profile trials had consumed his life and tha...

The plant has endured a Russian blockade since Moscow's invasion on February 24, with stories of the harsh conditions in besieged Mariupol horrifying the world as a war which has seen thousands killed and millions displaced entered its third month. ...

"It's lie after lie after lie," former truck driver Alex, 73, said of Johnson, whose political survival could depend on the result of Thursday's local polls. "We get nothing. We live in bloody poverty, we get nothing back from all those years we've...

"Based on all the comments and the vitriol that folks spew over these two years, I just refuse to let my guard down," the African-American business owner told AFP. "On one of the removals, we were driving down the road with the Confederate statue o...

Adding to the dour mood was data showing Chinese manufacturing activity shrank last month at its fastest pace since the start of the pandemic owing to Covid lockdowns in the country's biggest cities. The government's refusal to shift from its zero-...

ENEOS is the latest energy giant to retreat from the Southeast Asian country, whose military has waged a widespread crackdown on dissent since it ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi last year. JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration, part ...

Apart from periods of direct rule by London, pro-UK unionists have monopolised power ever since Britain carved out a Protestant-majority statelet in 1921, when the rest of Ireland achieved self-rule. But pollsters expect victory on Thursday for Sin...

The local election results will be seen as a barometer of support for Johnson's Conservatives nationally, as well as an indicator of whether the opposition Labour party poses a serious threat. Johnson, 57, won a landslide general election victory i...

Even more importantly, seagrass is such a key store of carbon and producer of oxygen -- critical to slowing the devastating impacts of climate change -- that the Mediterranean Wetlands Initiative (MedWet) calls it "the lungs" of the sea. But, just ...