Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative. He argues that Ukraine’s expanding long-range strike campaign has helped Ukraine “stay in this game” by raising the economic, military and social cos...

Japan has hundreds of the cafes where campaigners say animals are sometimes kept in cramped spaces, and that their popularity encourages the capture and illegal trade of rare wildlife. A fact-finding survey will begin as early as next month, starti...

The price is a marked increase from the $7 billion valuation that served as the basis for initial negotiations with Nvidia late last year, according to the Financial Times. At the time, the AI platform reportedly turned down a $500 million investme...

Among them was Subash Khatani, scanning lists and speaking to officials in the hope of finding news of his elder brother, one of the hundreds unaccounted for after the disaster. "My elder brother Ram Sharan Rasaili is among those missing in Rasuwa....

Defeated by Turkish side Fenerbahçe, Lyon will not be competing in Europe’s most prestigious club competition this year. Six years after their last Champions League campaign, Lyon had set their sights on returning to the competition. Instead, the...

The east African country has been ruled by President Yoweri Museveni for more than four decades, but as the 81-year-old has taken more of a backseat in recent months, speculation has mounted over who will succeed him. Museveni's son, army chief Muh...

Sitting on the sofa in his living room, the 56-year-old described feeling like he had an "invisible suitcase" next to him, always ready to pack up and go. "It takes a long time before it disappears, if it ever disappears," Weiner told AFP. Gothenb...

The pair survived a second-set pummeling in the championship decider in New York to edge Belinda Bencic of Switzerland and Flavio Cobolli of Italy, 6-3, 1-6, 10-6. Mensik, a singles semi-finalist at this year's French Open, sealed the triumph with...

Masterpieces woven from mulberry silk or pure sheep wool by artisans have adorned imperial courts, museums and luxury homes across the world over the centuries. The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 30...

Here is what we know so far: What happened? The exact sequence of events is still unclear, but on Wednesday morning, torrents of water and debris crashed downstream on both sides of the border. Surveillance video from the Chinese side showed a wall...

South Korea is an eSports powerhouse and Park has been chosen to compete in survival horror game Identity V at the Asian Games in Nagoya and the wider Aichi area from September 19 to October 4. The 23-year-old Park, the only woman in South Korea's ...

Taiwan's coast guard warned of an increasingly severe situation, as analysts say the increased activity is part of China's bid to map the region for submarine warfare. China's Communist Party has never ruled Taiwan, but Beijing claims the island de...

Bayern host German Cup runners-up Stuttgart in Friday's opener after a successful 2025-26 campaign, winning the double and chalking up the fourth-best points tally in Bundesliga history. Flanked by Michael Olise and Luis Diaz, Harry Kane helped bar...

Once a fixture of the 1960s pop and minimalist scenes in New York, Japan's "polka dot queen" found huge commercial success in her later decades. Her larger-than-life paintings, sculptures and installations -- inspired by vivid hallucinations -- sol...