Aboriginal Senator Lidia Thorpe branded Britain’s Elizabeth II a “colonising” queen yesterday, as the recently elected lawmaker reluctantly swore allegiance while taking the oath of office.

Firefighters in northern California were battling yesterday to gain control over the state’s largest wildfire this year, which claimed two lives after exploding in size over the weekend and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.

Spain yesterday reported its second monkeypox-related death, bringing to three the number of fatalities linked to the current outbreak outside of Africa.

France’s foreign ministry on Friday summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to Paris to protest against the execution of four political prisoners by the military junta, a diplomatic source told AFP.

Pope Francis yesterday said the treatment of Indigenous people in Canada amounted to a genocide, after a six-day trip where he apologised to survivors of abuse at Catholic-run schools.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez asked his ministers, public officials and private sector employees on Friday to stop wearing ties and stay cool as heatwaves sweep parts of Europe, stoking demand for energy-guzzling air-conditioning.

French leader Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman agreed to work “to ease the effects” of the Ukraine war, Macron’s office said

The Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro yesterday vowed to fight on after the latest UK judgment in a long-running legal tussle over who gets to control the oil-rich country’s gold reserves.

Almost 1,500 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe were waiting to disembark on Thursday, NGOs said.

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday (July 28) he was hopeful that the first shipment of grain from a Ukrainian Black Sea port could take place as early as Friday, but "crucial" details for the safe passage of vessels are still being worked out.

Mankind marked a milestone yesterday, the day by which humanity has consumed all earth can sustainably produce for this year, with NGOs warning the rest of 2022 will be lived in resource deficit.

State-controlled media outlet Russia Today yesterday lost its court fight against a European Union ban imposed in March over alleged

The completion of the long-awaited Peljesac bridge that connects the southern coastal regions to the rest of the country is one of the most significant events in Croatian history.

Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station “after 2024”, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency told President Vladimir Putin yesterday.

The European Commission has approved a smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, the Danish drugmaker that developed the jab said yesterday.

Next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in Britain, organizers announced Monday, after concluding it is too risky to hold the much-loved pop extravaganza in the designated host country, Ukraine.

German business morale fell more than expected in July, the Ifo business sentiment survey showed on Monday, as the institute that compiles it said high energy prices and looming gas shortages had left Europe's largest economy on the cusp of recession.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi that reviving the landmark 2015 deal on Tehran’s nuclear capabilities was “still possible” but must happen “as soon as possible”.

More than a thousand migrants arrived in Italy within a few hours while hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian vessels, were waiting for a port to receive them, NGOs and authorities said yesterday.

The World Health Organization’s European office on Friday said the heatwave baking Europe has caused over 1,700 deaths on the Iberian