MOSCOW: Yuri Drozdov, the Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents abroad, died Wednesday. He was 91. The Foreign Intelligence...
MOSCOW: Yuri Drozdov, the Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents abroad, died Wednesday. He was 91. The Foreign Intelligence...
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II outlined the government's legislative program in a speech to Parliament on Wednesday after the prime minister slimmed down her...
Paris: Europe sizzled under a continent-wide heatwave on Wednesday, with London bracing for Britain's hottest June day since 1976 as Portugal struggled to...
London: US President Donald Trump's planned state visit to Britain later this year got no mention in Queen Elizabeth II's speech to parliament...
Geneva: The UN voiced alarm Wednesday at the many Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon to Banki, a border town clouded by Boko Haram...
RAQQA, Syria: U.S.-backed forces are closing in on Islamic State in Raqqa, but local Syrians who have escaped the battlefield are worried about...
Hanoi: A senior Vietnamese environment official has been fired for negligence over a toxic waste dump that killed tonnes of fish in a...
Brussels: Belgian security forces have identified a man who set off an explosion at a Brussels train station before he was shot and...
Paris: France's justice minister Francois Bayrou, a key ally of President Emmanuel Macron, told AFP Wednesday he was quitting the government, as his...
ERBIL, Iraq: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces said they began a push on Wednesday toward the mosque of Mosul, where Islamic State declared a self-styled...
COPENHAGEN: Three adults and a child are presumed dead after waves swamped a remote coastal village in northwestern Greenland over the weekend, police...
Miami: Weather monitors warned Wednesday of tornados and potentially deadly flash floods as Tropical Storm Cindy in the Gulf of Mexico headed towards...
Kecskemét, Hungary: Eleven men went on trial on Wednesday over the deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria nearly...
Juba: A famine that was declared in parts of South Sudan four months ago is over, UN aid agencies said Wednesday, but extreme...
JAKARTA: Indonesia is set to approve a law allowing authorities to jail for up to 15 years citizens coming home after joining militant...
SINGAPORE: Extreme heat across large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere raised fears for crops in China, fuelled forest fires in Portugal and Russia's...
BRUSSELS: Belgian counter-terrorism police are investigating the motives of a suspected suicide bomber shot dead by troops guarding a Brussels railway station after...
Washington: Republican Karen Handel won a high-stakes, closely-watched special congressional election Tuesday, salvaging a seat in traditional conservative Georgia where Democrats had hoped...
