Julian Assange, the founder of the secrets-leaking website WikiLeaks, was freed by a court on the U.S. Pacific island territory of Saipan on Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law in a deal that will see him return home to Australia.
Kenya’s president condemned the deadly storming of parliament on Tuesday, the most direct assault on the government in decades, and said it was “a national security threat.”
The European Union launched membership talks with war-torn Ukraine on Tuesday, a decade after Russian troops seized the Crimean Peninsula to deter the country from moving closer to the West.
The head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) warned Sunday that the continent of Africa has seen a massive surge in the number of Islamic jihadist terrorists operating there in the last 16 years.
Julian Assange has been released from a British prison, announced WikiLeaks, the group he founded, which posted on social media a video of him boarding a flight that departed Britain at London’s Stansted airport on Monday evening.
Chinese authorities said Monday that at least 47 people died in southern China’s Guangdong Province after torrential rains set off flooding and landslides and warned of more “abnormally high amounts of rain.”
Hungary vowed Monday to launch legal procedures against the European Union after the bloc found a way to use proceeds from frozen Russian assets to buy arms for Ukraine, despite Hungarian opposition.
Confidential documents and analysis by weapons experts indicate that a significant expansion at Iran’s most fortified nuclear facility could soon triple its production of enriched uranium, the Washington Post reported.
Hungary’s self-declared “illiberal” Christian conservative government has come under pressure from the U.S. and its allies to end policies that they claim discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community.
Russia’s southern region of Dagestan has begun three days of mourning after a rampage by suspected Islamic militants who killed 19 people, most of them police, and attacked churches and synagogues in coordinated assaults in two cities. Sunday’s violence occurred in Dagestan’s capital and a nearby town.
Moscow says at least four people have died in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Sunday, a day after Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv killed three people and left dozens in hospitals. The attacks came as Ukraine expected the arrival of more U.S.-made air defense systems.
At least 15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, were killed and a dozen wounded when suspected Islamic gunmen opened fire at Russian synagogues, churches, and a police post in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan, several sources said.
Kyiv and Moscow say at least nearly a dozen people have died since Friday in Ukrainian-Russian clashes in eastern Ukraine, near Crimea, and in Russia itself. Additionally, officials say that in separate attacks, Russia launched a new barrage of missiles and drones overnight on Ukraine, damaging energy facilities in the country’s southeast and west and injuring at least two workers. The clashes come amid Western concerns about the increased support that Moscow is receiving from China, North Korea, and Iran to fuel its invasion of Ukraine.
Namibia’s high court has overturned a law that critics said criminalized gay sex in a ruling that the United Nations hopes will encourage broader testing for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
NATO’s incoming secretary-general said Friday that one of his main tasks would be “to keep military alliance united” at a time of divisions over the war in Ukraine.
Finland’s president says Russia has launched a “hybrid war” against Europe and the West using non-traditional methods to weaken their resolve.
An advocacy group has condemned the five-year jail term given to Belarusian journalist Alena Tsimashchuk on what her supporters suggest are trumped-up charges.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has withdrawn his bid for NATO’s leadership, clearing the way for Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become the military alliance’s secretary-general.
A terminally ill Hungarian lawyer who lost his right-to-die case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has met Hungary’s government, which refused to allow active euthanasia.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that schools in France are threatened by the “scourge of antisemitism” after a 12-year-old Jewish girl was raped in what police called “a hate crime” amid ongoing attacks against Jewish people.