It is the latest court decision to challenge the country’s conservative mores, and could have major implications for the rights of women and gay people.

One of the great figures of the past 50 years, he oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and helped end the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war.

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A towering figure beyond his own country, he was less fondly regarded inside Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The clashes took place in Ukraine’s Kherson region, where Moscow’s forces rolled up major gains early in the war.

Donald Trump was banned from Twitter and suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol insurrection.

The deadly multimillion-dollar dispute between an Australian and a Chinese state-linked gold mine in Ghana is reaching a tipping point.

A Trump lawyer “explicitly prohibited” FBI agents from looking in boxes in a storage room at Trump’s property during a June search, the department said.

The comments represent Biden’s sharpest attack on Republicans since the Mar-a-Lago raid this month, with the White House not wanting to be seen as playing politics.

The ad featured the last leader of the Soviet Union sitting down at a Moscow outlet of Pizza Hut with his granddaughter to enjoy one of the largest icons of capitalism - an American fast food chain.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union before its dissolution, has died aged 91.

Decay. There is no other word for it: a preview of the tougher, almost frightening times, that lie ahead. Rubbish has piled up over the best part of a fortnight, leaving Edinburgh and Glasgow looking like a rubbish dump.

A quarter of a century after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, I can see how that moment of shared grief was pivotal in my young life.

The Ukraine military has shared footage of a warplane firing a US-supplied missile.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in this Pizza Hut commercial in 1997.

The long-awaited launch would kick off the US space agency’s moon-to-Mars Artemis program, successor to the Apollo moon project of the 1960s and 1970s.

Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91

The Russian helped end the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Solomon Islands suspends foreign naval visits after US ship incident.

Dr Takeshi Kasai’s removal stands in stark contrast to WHO’s past reluctance to discipline perpetrators of unethical and sometimes illegal behaviour.