Category: 4. World

Ukraine’s foreign minister has pressed diplomats of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations for support to fend off Russian aerial attacks that have caused rolling blackouts across the country.

Speaking at a meeting to discuss defence…

House Democrats on Wednesday released emails, which they said raised new questions about President Donald Trump’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about his abuse of underage girls, an assertion the…

The French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been pardoned and is to be released from prison, the Algerian presidential office said in a statement on Wednesday.

The move, which will mean Sansal can be transferred to Germany for medical treatment,…

A British couple jailed in Iran after being accused of espionage have gone on hunger strike in a “cry out for help”, their son has told the BBC.

Craig and Lindsay Foreman were on an around-the-world motorbike trip when they were arrested by…

The dust may have settled on Zohran Mamdani’s astounding, against-the-odds victory in the New York mayoral election. But a week on, the scale of his achievement looks no less impressive.

As Ed Pilkington outlines in this week’s big story,…