The European Union on Thursday struck an agreement on legislation to phase out new CO2-emitting vehicles by 2035, negotiators announced.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the “acute threat” posed by Moscow, but China is the most consequential challenge for the United States, the Pentagon has said.

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians on Friday, Palestinian sources said, in what the Israeli military said was a response to a shooting at soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Thursday ending over a year of deadlock, but still faces many challenges.

Bees order numbers in increasing size from left to right, a study has shown for the first time, supporting the much-debated theory that this direction is inherent in all animals including humans.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday scolded the West for playing what he cast as a “dangerous, bloody and dirty” geopolitical game, but said the United States and its allies would ultimately have to talk to Russia.

Israeli and Lebanese leaders signed a landmark US-brokered agreement on their maritime boundary yesterday, marking a diplomatic departure from decades

Iran’s president yesterday claimed “riots” sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death paved the way for “terrorist” attacks, a day after a gunman killed at least 15 people at a Muslim shrine.

Government pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.8 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, after “woefully inadequate” progress to curb warming, a United Nations report said.

A senior Russian government official raised the possibility that Moscow could shoot down commercial Western satellites being used to help Ukraine's war effort. The White House has vowed response if Russia attacks US satellites.

Global deaths from tuberculosis are estimated to have increased between 2019 and 2021, reversing years of decline as the Covid-19 pandemic severely derailed efforts to tackle the disease, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faced the most dangerous decade since World War Two as Western elites scrambled to prevent the inevitable crumbling of the global dominance of the United States and its allies.

A senior Russian foreign ministry official said that commercial satellites from the United States and its allies could become legitimate targets for Russia if they were involved in the war in Ukraine.

The militant group Islamic State said it carried out an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Iran on Wednesday which killed 15 people, escalating tensions in a country reeling from a wave of protests and prompting warnings of a response from Tehran.

Russia rehearsed its response to a nuclear attack yesterday in an exercise that involved nuclear submarines, strategic bombers and ballistic missiles at a time when tensions are high over a “dirty bomb” allegation it has made against Ukraine.

The United Nations said yesterday that the humanitarian response to the crisis in Somalia where a historic drought is threatening famine has gathered pace but warned the situation remained “dire”.

Italy’s coastguard said yesterday it had rescued more than 1,000 migrants from two fishing boats in the Mediterranean overnight, while two bodies had been recovered.

French President Emmanuel Macron hosted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for lunch yesterday, with the leaders hoping to pare back differences on energy and defence and revitalise the EU’s key double act.

Iranian security forces yesterday opened fire on protesters who massed in their thousands in Mahsa Amini’s hometown to mark 40 days since her death, a human rights group said.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday postponed an eagerly awaited budget plan due next week, as the youthful new leader got down to business after weeks of political turmoil.