Russia said on Friday that if the United States threatened Moscow over its arrest of Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich, it would reap a “whirlwind”, the state-owned news agency RIA reported.

Italy’s privacy watchdog said yesterday it had blocked the controversial robot ChatGPT, saying the artificial intelligence app did not respect user data and could not verify users’ age.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed off on a new Russian foreign policy strategy aimed at curtailing Western “dominance” and identifying China and India

The devastating earthquake that hit southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria in February damaged more than 20 percent of Turkey’s agricultural production, the UN’s food agency said yesterday.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday warned Beijing that its stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine would determine Chinese-EU ties but said Europe was not looking to “decouple” from China.

The UN General Assembly yesterday adopted by consensus and to cheers a landmark resolution calling for the world body’s top court to lay out nations’ legal obligations in combatting climate change.

Scientists have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the Moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the “explorers of tomorrow”.

Cancer-causing chemical compounds called nitrosamines have been detected in a range of everyday foods and could pose a health risk to consumers, the European Food Safety Agency warned yesterday.

The 27 EU member states yesterday approved a deal between Brussels and Germany that lifted Berlin’s block on a planned phase-out of sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035.

Migrants stuck in Libya while trying to reach Europe are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery -- a crime against humanity, a United Nations investigation said yesterday.

Russia and China are not creating a military alliance and the cooperation between their armed forces is “transparent”, President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast yesterday, days after hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Kremlin.

Russia’s parliament speaker yesterday proposed banning the activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crimes.

Britain’s King Charles yesterday cancelled a state visit to France after social unrest over President Emmanuel Macron’s new pension law erupted into some of the worst street violence seen in years across the country.

The son of a senior Russian official arrested in Italy at Washington’s request disappeared the day after a court approved his extradition to the United States, media reports said yesterday.

A planned visit to France from Sunday by King Charles III has been postponed due to ongoing protests over pension reform, the French presidency announced.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said yesterday he would seek an explanation from Hungary about why it is delaying its parliament’s ratification of Sweden’s Nato bid but not Finland’s.

Belarus yesterday sentenced a journalist who worked for a Russian newspaper to three years in prison for an article that mentioned the reclusive country’s powerful KGB secret police, state-run media reported.

Any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Kremlin chief would amount to a declaration of war against Russia, his ally Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday. The ICC issued an arrest warrant

Spanish lawmakers yesterday roundly rejected a no-confidence motion against socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez brought by the far-right Vox party and fronted by an 89-year-old former communist.

Sweden’s parliament yesterday voted in favour of joining Nato despite delays by Hungary and Turkey to ratify its membership bid, which will likely lead to Sweden joining after neighbouring Finland.