Rashidov Sharof was a prominent Uzbek politician, diplomat, and public intellectual. He was the first secretary of the ...

A fifth of Ukrainian territory is now under Russian control, and for Ukrainians living under occupation there seems little chance that any future deal to end the war will change that. Three Ukrainians ...

Major European powers have voiced support for a proposal to use frozen Russian assets as collateral for an enormous loan to Ukraine to fund its reconstruction. The so-called Reparations Loan, first ...

Police have arrested many people in hundreds of raids leading up to the vote as reports of Russian interference and planned disturbances plagued what many believe is the most consequential election in ...

European Union leaders are considering a “reparations plan” that would use frozen Russian state assets to provide Ukraine with a $164bn loan to buy European weapons and to help fund its reconstruction ...

UPDATE: A missile fragment (not a small-calibre projectile, as the officials previously reported) struck the consular section of Poland’s embassy in Kyiv during a Russian air raid overnight - Poland’s ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that 92 Russian drones flew toward Poland on Sept 10, with Ukraine shooting them down but 19 crossing into Polish territory. Ukrainian President ...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he did not rule out downing a Russian fighter jet if it were to breach European airspace. German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an ...

Belarus opened its first nuclear power plant in Astravets in 2020 amid protests and concern in neighbouring Lithuania, where there was opposition to the plant's location. Belarus unveiled a proposal ...

Hundreds of young Russians gathered in St. Petersburg this week to belt out a banned protest anthem, risking stiff penalties under the country's sweeping censorship laws. The impromptu choir, which ...

At the same time, the Russian ship had its AIS devices turned off for the automatic exchange of information about identity and position between ships. Alexander Shabalin was discovered just 12 ...