The government of Britain will be deploying military instructors to Ukraine, along with providing training to Ukrainian armed forces present in Britain or other Western countries, said British defence minister Grant Shapps, in a newspaper interview. To date, Britain and its allies

Afghanistan's Embassy in India on Sunday ceased operations. New Delhi does not recognize Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, who took power in 2021. India had allowed the Afghan Embassy to continue operating under the ambassador and mission staff appointed by ousted President

An ethnic Armenian exodus has nearly emptied Nagorno-Karabakh of residents since Azerbaijan attacked and ordered the breakaway region’s fighter groups to disarm, the Armenian government has said. Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the press secretary to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,

The US government has avoided a federal shutdown after both House and Senate agreed on a short-term funding deal. A bill that keeps the government funded until mid-November but includes no new aid for Ukraine was approved in the Senate by 88 votes to nine. The 45-day resolution was

A pro-China candidate has won presidential elections in the Maldives, defeating an incumbent who had strengthened relations with India. President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih accepted defeat in the run-off poll, congratulating his rival Mohamed Muizzu who won 54% of the vote. Mr Muizzu,

The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned what it described as an “egregious and escalatory drone attack,” by the Houthis on Bahraini soldiers serving in the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, in which three servicemen were killed and several injured. It

The United States is going to impose visa restrictions on approximately 100 Nicaraguan municipal officials for their role in alleged attacks on human rights. In an official statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken came up with the announcement on Friday. This move is part

The Maldives began voting to decide their next president in a referendum on whether to hitch their fortunes to China or India, both vying for influence in the tropical paradise. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, 61, faces an uphill battle to secure a second mandate after a term that saw renewed

A man in the US has been charged with leaking the tax returns of a "high-ranking government official" who is understood to be Donald Trump. Prosecutors said Charles Littlejohn, a contractor for the IRS - the US-wide tax body - stole the information and passed it on to a news

Six people have died and 15 others are trapped, after a mine shaft collapsed in Zimbabwe, state media report. The collapse of Bay Horse gold mine in Chegutu, 100km (62 miles) west of the capital Harare on Friday morning left more than 30 people trapped. Thirteen miners are said to

The United States on Friday called on Serbia to pull its forces back from the border with Kosovo. The White House warned that Belgrade had deployed tanks and artillery near the border since deadly clashes erupted at a monastery in northern Kosovo last week. Who was involved in the

Record-setting rain overwhelmed New York City’s sewer system Friday, sending a surge of floodwater coursing through streets and into basements, schools, subways and vehicles throughout the nation’s most populous city. The water rose fast and furious, catching some commuters

At least 52 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a suicide attack at a religious political party’s gathering to mark the birthday of the prophet Mohammed in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, health officials and police said. No group has claimed

The death toll from an explosion and fire at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh has risen to 170, Armenpress news agency reported on Friday citing local officials in the breakaway region. The blast occurred as thousands of ethnic Armenians fled the breakaway enclave after their fighters

More than 2,500 migrants died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2023, a UN High Commissioner for Refugees official said Thursday. “By September 24, over 2,500 people were accounted as dead or missing in 2023 alone,” Ruven

The Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on October 6, the highlight of the week of announcements running from October 2-9. With the war in Ukraine well into its second year, tensions flaring between superpowers and a slew of African coups in recent years, the global state of affairs

The EU will seek Thursday to make progress on a troubled reform of its policy toward asylum-seekers and migrants, with many member states looking to coax Germany to agree key measures. Paralysis on the issue has caused frustration in the 27-nation bloc as it faces a rise in irregular

Taiwan has unveiled its first domestically-made submarine as it bolsters its defences against a possible Chinese attack. President Tsai Ing-wen presided over the launch ceremony in the port city of Kaohsiung on Thursday. US officials have warned that China could be militarily

Russia's Defence Ministry has released a video showing the Black Sea Fleet's commander at a conference, despite Ukraine claiming to have killed him. It's not clear when the footage, where Viktor Sokolov appears on a video link with the defence minister, was filmed. The

"What I felt was fear," says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people. "The wildfires made me really anxious about what sort of future I would have." Claudia, 24,