China has warned that the rapid expansion of internet satellite constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink presented “pronounced safety and security challenges”. Addressing an informal United Nations Se...
When the United Nations General Assembly unanimously recognised Turkmenistan’s status of permanent neutrality in December 1995, few could have predicted quite how central this principle would become t...
Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Cent...
In the monthly ARD Deutschlandtrend poll, German voters polled express little confidence that 2026 will be a peaceful and prosperous year. The reputation of the US is at an all-time low.nato...
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The United Nations forecast global economic growth of 2.7% this year, down from last year’s estimate, citing higher US tariffs, policy uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. UN economists see growth r...
Zohran Mamdani, the young upstart of the US left, was sworn in on Thursday to take over as New York mayor for a term sure to see him cross swords with President Donald Trump. After the clocks struck m...
Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov is the first military officer to head Volodymyr Zelenskyy's presidential office. The head of the military secret service HUR is one of the country's most popular civi...
The energy is contagious, and that passion is driving the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. Groups A and B returned to action yesterday for the first day of the second round with the host nation Morocco als...
A brutal civil war has been raging in Sudan since 2023. The national football team is participating in the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco with more than just sporting success in mind....
Protests sparked by economic hardship have spread across Iran, in the biggest wave of dissent in three years....
Israel has become the world's first country to recognize Somaliland, which proclaimed independence from Somalia in 1991, as a sovereign nation....
European leaders have issued a joint statement on Greenland, after the US president said the United States needed the semi-autonomous region from a national security standpoint. Greenlandic leaders sa...
A French national detained in Togo last year over his alleged involvement in anti-government protests returned to France on Thursday after his release, the French foreign ministry said. The prosecutor...
Protests sparked by economic hardship have spread across Iran, in the biggest wave of dissent in three years....
For the UK, last year saw the highest number of migrant arrivals across the English Channel since 2022. In contrast, irregular entries into the EU stabilised in the first 11 months of the year....
Defending champions Ivory Coast started the Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 victory over Mozambique on Wednesday. Amad Diallo scored shortly after half-time to secure the win in the Group F match in ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Ghana has legalized cryptocurrency trading with a new law. ✓ Plans to explore asset-backed digital settlement instruments...
Though 2025 saw flagrant human rights abuses across the globe, the year also brought many positive developments....
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has stated that using the US military to acquire Greenland is 'always an option'. It comes after European leaders issued a joint statement on Greenland, af...