Hungary’s prime minister has urged the West to take Moscow’s nuclear threats more seriously and said the outgoing administration of U.S. President Joe Biden took “significant risks” by allowing Ukraine to use heavy weapons against Russia.
A shocking scientific finding in Syria challenges the long-held assumption that the ancient Egyptians created the first alphabet.
Egyptian authorities confirmed Monday that at least 16 people are missing, including foreigners, and 28 have been rescued after a tourist boat sank in the Red Sea.
Lithuania said Monday that it could not exclude terrorism as the cause of a DHL cargo plane crash just outside the Vilnius airport that killed the Spanish pilot and injured the three other crew members.
Romania faced a political earthquake Monday as pro-Russian nationalist Calin Georgescu surged when votes were counted in the country’s presidential election, setting up a neck-and-neck race with Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.
Delegates of rich and poor countries concluded a trillion-dollar deal on what they view as “a climate crisis” on Sunday after marathon talks at a climate gathering in Baku, Azerbaijan. The negotiations were overshadowed by mounting tensions, with India among those opposing the accord.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says Hungary won’t comply with a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Iran warned Friday it is launching “new and advanced” centrifuges to rapidly enrich uranium because the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog censured the Islamic Republic for failing to cooperate fully with the agency’s monitoring and inspection.
The humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it is “heartbroken” to suspend its operations in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, for the first time in three decades due to deadly violence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Thursday his military fired “a new intermediate-range missile” into Ukraine in response to Kyiv firing American and British long-range missiles.
With Ukraine firing Western missiles deep into Russia and Moscow not ruling out using nuclear weapons in response, millions of Europeans are urged to prepare for an escalation of the armed conflict.
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that the US will be sending Ukraine a further minimum of $275 million in new weaponry to continue its fight against the Russian invasion that began in February 2022, the Associated Press reports.
Ukraine fired a dozen British Storm Shadow cruise missiles deep into Russia on Wednesday after launching it is U.S. ATACMS missiles, prompting Moscow to warn that it is lowering its threshold for the use of atomic weapons.
Tehran has condemned three European nations for pursuing a new censure resolution against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after a leaked report showed the country is expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels.
Turkey has cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people in north-east Syria through airstrikes against the separatist Kurdish-held Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), BBC News reported on Tuesday, November 19. The situation is all the more critical as the region has been struck by a drought.
Christians in the Philippines said Tuesday they are thankful for prayers as the cleanup began after deadly Super Typhoon Man-yi.
Ecuador on Monday (November 18) declared a 60-day state of national emergency amid raging wildfires, which have resulted in evacuations and the destruction of 24,700 acres of land, Reuters reports. The situation has remained critical.
Ukraine has launched its first strikes inside Russian territory using U.S.-made long-range missiles, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. In response to the Biden Administration allowing Ukraine to use U.S. missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a revised nuclear doctrine that eases the conditions for using nuclear weapons.
A former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin says the militaries of the United States and Britain have become “legitimate” targets as the U.S. is directly involved in the war “by allowing” Ukraine to fire its long-range missiles at Russia.
Sweden began issuing millions of pamphlets to its citizens on preparing for a potential war, and Finland unveiled a new website aimed at crisis preparedness on Monday. This activity coincided with an incident today involving a major fiber optic cable, believed to have been cut, between Finland and Germany.