Global arms revenues hit a record 679 billion dollars in 2024, reflecting a sweeping rearmament drive across major powers and rising military pressures from Europe to the Middle East.
A Russian-flagged tanker en route to Georgia reported an attack off Türkiye’s coast, with its 13 crew unharmed, according to the country’s maritime authority.
A new robotic system developed for the Czech Police is reshaping how complex investigations are carried out, bringing laboratory-level precision directly to crime scenes.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared the end of a 16th Ebola outbreak, closing a two month emergency in Kasai Province that pushed national and international teams into an intensive response.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy concluded his visit to the Élysée Palace in Paris on Monday, marking a new phase of diplomacy as Kyiv pushes for stronger European support for its terms in a settlement with Russia.
The OSCE has formally wound up the Minsk Process, shutting down its mediation structures after a joint appeal from Armenia and Azerbaijan and a consensus decision by all 57 participating states.
Moscow and Kyiv painted very different pictures of the battlefield on Sunday, each insisting momentum was on their side as the fighting around Pokrovsk intensified.
Chinese scientists say they are moving closer to building one of the world’s most powerful neutrino telescopes, an underwater array known as the Tropical Deep sea Neutrino Telescope, or TRIDENT, that will sit around 3,500 metres below the surface.
Swiss voters have decisively rejected a plan in Sunday's referendum (30 November) to impose a 50% tax on inheritances worth more than 50 million francs, delivering a far stronger backlash than polls had forecast.
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has quietly faded out with eight months left on its mandate, as its powers are absorbed into the federal bureaucracy and critics question whether it ever produced real savings.
Vilnius airport briefly halted night-time operations after balloons drifted towards its airspace late on Sunday, forcing several flights to divert. The airport announced on its website that it planned to reopen at 01.30 am local time.
Britain, France and Germany known as E3, have drafted a counter-proposal to Washington’s 28-point Ukraine peace plan, keeping the U.S. outline as a starting point but reshaping it with their own security and reconstruction terms, according to a text seen on Sunday.
Slovenian voters narrowly rejected plans to legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults, according to partial results from the state election commission.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Europe needs a real voice in shaping Washington’s Ukraine peace plan after a joint call with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Americans say they have not been told clearly why U.S. forces are massing near Venezuela and remain wary of any move toward military action, even as frustration over prices and inflation drags President Donald Trump’s ratings to new lows.
Russia says several “unfriendly” countries approached its delegation at the G20 summit in Johannesburg with concrete proposals for economic cooperation, according to senior Kremlin official Maksim Oreshkin.
The full 28-point framework outlining a proposed settlement between Ukraine and Russia has been published by Axios, but has yet to be officially published. Drafted by the U.S. administration, it says it's built on security guarantees, territorial provisions and long-term economic arrangements.
Standing in a muddy field north of Madrid, 83-year-old Jose Luis Cubo watched forensic scientists dig into the soil where his grandfather once helped bury two men shot at the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Germany has returned 12 royal-era cultural artefacts to Ethiopia in a ceremony in Addis Ababa, marking a formal step in ongoing cultural cooperation between the two countries.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has formally recognised Azerbaijan’s strong organisation and effective delivery of COP29, paving the way for deeper cooperation and the involvement of Azerbaijani specialists in future global climate initiatives.
Donald Trump defended Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman during talks at the White House, offering a different view from U.S. intelligence assessments on the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi as the Saudi leader made his first Washington visit in more than seven years.
The UN Human Rights Council has ordered an urgent inquiry into alleged atrocities in and around El-Fasher, condemning escalating violence, ethnically targeted killings, and widespread abuse attributed to the Rapid Support Forces.
Chileans will vote on Sunday in the country's first mandatory presidential election since 2012, with security and immigration shaping a race expected to move to a December run off.
Azerbaijan has summoned Russia’s ambassador in Baku after an Iskander missile from overnight strikes on Kyiv landed inside the Azerbaijani Embassy compound, causing significant structural damage but no casualties.
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