Thousands of students across Germany walked out of classrooms on Friday to protest a newly approved military service law.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping accompanied French President Emmanuel Macron to Chengdu on Friday, a rare gesture seemingly reserved for the head of Europe's second-largest economy that highlights Beijing's focus on Paris in its ties with the European Union.
Moscow has expressed cautious optimism regarding diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine, following a marathon meeting between President Vladimir Putin and high-level representatives of the Trump administration.
Norway plans to buy two additional submarines from Germany and a separate procurement of long-range artillery, the defence ministry said on Friday, at a much higher cost than before partly due to high demand for military equipment.
Top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan will convene in Qatar this Saturday for a high-profile panel discussion aimed at cementing the peace process between the historic South Caucasus rivals.
Today, at the UN Security Council Media Stakeout in New York, Uzbekistan's Permanent Representative, Ulugbek Lapasov, briefed on the outcomes of the Central Asian Heads of State meeting in Tashkent on 16 November 2025.
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Salvador Nasralla a candidate in the Honduran presidential elections has told Reuters that the polls were affected by President Trump's endorsement of conservative candidate Nasry Asfura, and technical disruptions.
Greek lawmakers approved the purchase of 36 PULS rocket artillery systems from Israel, valued at approximately 650 million euros ($757.84 million), according to two officials familiar with the matter on Thursday.
On December 4, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with Kaja Kallas, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, during the 32nd OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Vienna.
A pall of mourning hangs over Hong Kong ahead of this weekend’s legislative elections, with the city struggling to process the scale of a tragedy that has claimed over 150 lives.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces a significant challenge on Friday as parliament votes on a pensions bill that has sparked a revolt within his own conservative party.
Israel was cleared on Thursday to participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, a decision made by the organisers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which sparked a major controversy.
A record-breaking flotilla of Chinese warships and coast guard vessels has surged into strategic waterways across East Asia this week, triggering high-level alarms in Taipei and Tokyo.
Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has resigned as rector of the College of Europe amidst an ongoing fraud investigation, according to a statement released on Thursday.
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Australia and Japan look set to deepen defence ties as Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles will meet with his Japanese counterpart Shinijiro Koizummi on Saturday (6 December) during a two-day visit including of tour around a Nagasaki shipyard.
The United States plans to extend its travel ban to over 30 countries, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump brought together the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Washington on Thursday to sign a peace deal, despite ongoing fighting in the region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on Friday to expand and diversify trade beyond oil and defence despite Western pressure on New Delhi to scale back its decades-old close ties with Moscow.
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