International

As the war in Ukraine nears one-year old, the head of the United Nations said he fears it may be expanding into a wider conflict as the world looks on, UPI reported on Tuesday.

A US jury found Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk and his company were not liable for misleading investors when Musk tweeted in 2018 that he had "funding secured" to take the electric car company private…

German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht resigned on Monday after a series of mistakes made her position in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government untenable.

“I have today asked the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced the Taliban’s order to ban university and primary education for Afghanistan's women as “unIslamic”, promising to follow the issue until it is…

Peru's national prosecutor's office has begun investigating President Dina Boluarte for genocide, it said, after protests against her which have left 40 people dead in the past month.

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The world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change…

After 15 excruciating rounds of voting, Kevin McCarthy has finally been named as the House Speaker of the US House of Representatives.

A surge in the cost of most food commodities last year, as the disruption caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine raised concerns of shortages, sent the UN food agency's average price index to…

China’s former ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, has been promoted to foreign minister, replacing longtime chief diplomat Wang Yi, who has taken up a role at the politburo of the ruling…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended his country's position on the war in Ukraine on Sunday and signaled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the coming year, AP reported.

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The US House’s Jan 6 committee has performed its task with a dignity that verges on parody. Their solemnity was justified; an investigation into a violent ambush of elected officials at the US…

The head of the European Parliament has vowed "a wide-ranging reform package" to clean up the legislature amid a graft scandal linked to World Cup host Qatar.

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that African countries must wean themselves off "begging" the West to earn global respect and change poor perceptions about the continent.

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the US government a day before he was due to testify…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday dismissed the idea of issuing government bonds to realize a substantial increase in defense spending in the coming years, adding he will seek…

The World Trade Organization has rejected the 2018 import taxes that former US president Donald Trump imposed on foreign steel and aluminum, saying they violated global trade rules.

Close to 60% of Haiti’s capital is dominated by gangs whose violence and sexual attacks have caused thousands to flee their homes, the UN humanitarian chief in the Caribbean nation said.

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office for a fraud scheme that embezzled $1 billion through…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the world faced a "Zeitenwende" or "an epochal tectonic shift" in an open editorial published by the US international relations magazine, Foreign Affairs on…

The Saudi-led OPEC oil organization and allied producing countries, including Russia, are expected to decide how much oil to supply to the global economy amid weakening demand in China and…

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva flagged rising inflationary pressures and China's economic slowdown as risks to Asia's economic outlook, calling on…

For Anwar Ibrahim’s supporters, his appointment as Malaysia’s new prime minister has been a long time coming.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for the imminent handover of former president Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight.

Families face "real challenges", UK’s Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned, as government forecasters predict the biggest drop in living standards since records began.

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The European Central Bank warned of rising stability risks for everyone from lenders to governments and households as the economic outlook darkens and officials battle record inflation.