Defense expenditure rose by 9.4 percent worldwide in 2024 amid wars in Ukraine and Gaza, with researchers warning that rising ...

An Austrian climber has died while descending Nepal's Ama Dablam after a successful summit, the country's tourism department ...

Russia said on Monday it was ready to negotiate directly with Ukraine, but that recognition of its claims over five Ukrainian ...

Islam, a military faction now part of Syria's transitional authorities, told AFP on Monday that its leader had been arrested ...

Indian soldiers have blown up nine homes of suspected rebels in Kashmir and detained nearly 2,000 people since a deadly ...

Italian bank Mediobanca, itself battling to fend off a hostile takeover by a rival, announced on Monday a 6.3-billion-euro ...

China and the Philippines on Monday defended their claims to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after Manila accused ...

Germany's next foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, is a former soldier, trained lawyer and conservative MP who has long been a ...

A top Palestinian official told the International Court of Justice on Monday that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid to ...

A top Chinese economic official on Monday said Beijing was on the "right side of history" in its gruelling trade war with the ...

Twenty five people were arrested in police raids across France on Monday after a series of coordinated attacks on prisons ...

A man suspected of stabbing a young Malian to death in a mosque in southern France and then filming his victim writhing in ...