Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who steered the country through a transformational era from the late 1980s and into the new millennium, died Wednesday at the age of 96, state news agency Xinhua said.

"Our economic circumstances mean unions' demands are not affordable," Health Secretary Steve Barclay said, after the Unison union confirmed the ambulance service faced its biggest strike in 30 years. Paramedics, ambulance technicians and emergency ...

Jiang took power in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and led the world's most populous nation towards its emergence as a powerhouse on the global stage. "Jiang Zemin passed away due to leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shan...

He died Wednesday at the age of 96, state news agency Xinhua reported. Jiang rose from a factory engineer to leader of the world's most populous country, steering China towards its emergence as the global trade, military, and political power that i...

Eighteen people go on trial in Ivory Coast on Wednesday accused of involvement in one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a machine-gun assault on a beach resort in 2016 that left 19 dead.

"We're seeing extraordinarily severe headwinds for democracy now, intensified by the political fallout from the economic crisis that started with the pandemic and the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine", International IDEA secretary-general...

Fresh clashes have broken out between police and protesters in a southern Chinese city, part of a wave of Covid lockdown-sparked demonstrations across the country that have morphed into demands for political freedoms.

Preliminary data from a trial of lecanemab was released in September and found it slowed cognitive decline by 27 percent across an 18-month period. The complete trial data, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, fleshes out those finding...

The Risoud Forest, covering the border between France and Switzerland some 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) up in the Jura mountains, is filled with spruce trees which are hundreds of years old. Their wood is perfect for crafting acoustic guitars, violins...

Instead, the truck drives itself, and veteran driver Roger Nordqvist is at the ready only in case of unexpected problems. Swedish truck maker Scania is not the only auto manufacturer developing autonomous vehicles, but it recently became the first ...

The European Union will try to set up a specialised court backed by the UN to investigate and potentially prosecute possible Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine, it announced Wednesday. Ukraine urged NATO members Tuesday to speed up weapons deli...

China's top security body warned late on Tuesday night that authorities would "crack down" on the protests, which are the most widespread since pro-democracy rallies in 1989 that were crushed with deadly force. The protests erupted over the weekend...

The city is the main port of entry into Europe for Latin American cocaine, a business controlled by transnational cartels with an increasing reputation for the most extreme violence. This week investigators working off a database of criminal messag...

Sky ECC was a secure messaging app once prized by underworld drug barons. But, after it was cracked by investigators in 2021, it has brought some to their downfall. Police from Belgium, France and the Netherlands are now sifting through a vast trov...

French President Emmanuel Macron was set to meet President Joe Biden on Wednesday, at the start of a state visit highlighting the countries' strategic ties but also fears of a transatlantic trade war.