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Sri Lanka has said it will temporarily default on its foreign debts amid its worst economic crisis in over 70 years. Officials said the impact...

The Russians have withdrawn from areas around Kyiv, but they’ve left deeply wounded lives that might never recover from the trauma. The BBC has heard...

An oil storage depot is on fire in a Russian city just north of Ukraine after what the local governor said was an attack by...

After crawling into her cell, Lee Young-joo was ordered to sit cross-legged with her hands on her knees. She was not allowed to move for...

North Korea has announced that it successfully launched its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a test on Thursday. The Hwasong-17 was first unveiled in 2020 at a...

North Korea has tested a banned intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time since 2017, according to South Korea. Japanese officials estimated it flew...

Apple has become the latest major firm to halt all product sales in Russia, in a widening corporate backlash to the country’s invasion of Ukraine....

Russian military forces have seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials say. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said the “totally pointless attack” on...

By air, land, and sea, Russia has launched a devastating attack on Ukraine, a European democracy of 44 million people. For months President Vladimir Putin...

Donald Trump’s social-media platform, Truth Social, has launched, in a limited form, on the US Apple App Store. The app had similarities to Twitter, commentators...