Hurricane Ian has knocked out power across all of Cuba, leaving 11 million people without electricity, after it slammed into the island’s western tip. Cuba‘s Electric...
Qatar’s World Cup security operation will be bolstered by civilians enrolled on mandatory military service and diplomats brought back from overseas. Some people who previously completed...
Mysterious leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipe network began with “powerful subsea blasts” and resulted from “deliberate actions”. Two pipelines running underwater from Russia to...
A Labour MP has been suspended from the party after she was accused of making “racist” comments about the chancellor. Rupa Huq was administratively suspended pending...
Sir Keir Starmer has announced that a Labour government will create Great British Energy – a new, publicly owned company that will generate renewable sources “to...
As an exercise in party management, this has been the most successful conference for Labour since Tony Blair’s last in 2006. There was buyer’s remorse the...
More than a dozen children wounded in a school shooting in central Russia are being transferred to Moscow for further treatment. Russian health minister Mikhail Murashko...
Shakira is set to go on trial for tax fraud after a Spanish judge approved proceedings against the pop megastar. Prosecutors have accused the Colombian singer...
Rescuers have been searching for a famed US mountaineer who has gone missing on the world’s eight-highest mountain in Nepal. Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down...
Qatar has called up hundreds of civilians – and summoned back diplomats from overseas – for mandatory military service to operate security checkpoints at World Cup...
A lawyer facing charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a previous case linked to Kenya’s recently elected president has been found dead. Paul Gicheru...
The Nord Stream pipeline network, part of which supplies Germany with gas from Russia, has been damaged in three places, its operator has said. The damage...
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has accused fellow player Hans Niemann of cheating and said he will never play against him again. Carlsen said he believed...
Leaders from across the world have gathered for the state funeral of Japan’s assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe. More than 4,300 people attended the event,...
A combined Chinese and Russian naval convoy, including a guided missile cruiser and a destroyer have been spotted close to an Alaskan island by the US...
New satellite images showing large numbers of Russians fleeing to Georgia and Mongolia have been released after Vladimir Putin’s order to mobilise hundreds of thousands of...
The speed with which new variants of the COVID-19 virus spread around the world can leave government’s scrambling to catch up. What is sometimes more remarkable...
The Prince of Wales will reaffirm the “myriad connections between the people of our countries” as he flies to Barbados for a ceremony to remove the...
Authorities in the Netherlands have detected 13 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant among passengers from South Africa. Health officials said the infected people were on...
Global concern about the coronavirus pandemic is growing, with a number of countries detecting confirmed cases of the Omicron variant for the first time. Travel restrictions...