Ukraine’s NABU anti-corruption force said yesterday it arrested the country’s former energy minister German Galushchenko -- who resigned last year during a massive corruption scandal -- as he tried to cross Ukraine’s border.

Former US president Barack Obama criticized a lack of shame and decorum in the country’s political discourse, responding Saturday for the first time to a post on Donald Trump’s social media account that depicted him and first lady Michelle as monkeys.

China confirmed that Canadian and British citizens will be able to visit the country visa-free from tomorrow, after the two countries’ leaders had announced such agreements following official trips to Beijing.

EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas yesterday pushed back against Europe “bashing” by the United States, as she said Russia must be forced to make concessions in talks to end the Ukraine war.

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Maria Corina Machado on Saturday predicted that the leftist governments in Cuba and Nicaragua will fall once the “criminal regime” in Caracas is gone.

Motorcycle-riding gunmen swept into three villages in a central region of Nigeria, shooting dead or cutting the throats of at least 46 people, a humanitarian source told AFP on Saturday.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “slave to war” in a speech to the Munich Security Conference Saturday evening, adding that Russia’s attacks had damaged every power plant in the country.

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli strikes killed at least 12 people since dawn yesterday, while a military official said the attacks were carried out in response to “violations of the ceasefire”.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered limited reassurance to Europeans in his conference speech

Move aims to facilitate people-to-people exchanges between China, other countries

Security report claims attackers used "41 motorcycles, each carrying two or three men"

Former US president Barack Obama criticized a lack of shame and decorum in his country's political discourse

Known as "miwatari" in Japanese, it occurs when a crack opens up in the frozen lake surface, allowing shards of thinner ice to break through and form a ridge where local deities are believed to cross.

Opposition continues protest, wants family doctor on board

Navalny, a staunch critic of Putin, died in a Russian prison on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence

The US military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two US officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was the “child of Europe” in a message of unity yesterday, offering some reassurance at what felt like a rift as tensions rise with an assertive Russia.

The exiled son of Iran’s last shah called on US President Donald Trump on Saturday to help the Iranian people, a day after the American leader said a change of power would be the “best thing”.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday called for the removal of “all obstacles” he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire.