Inside the Spy Scandal: The Rise and Disappearance of Oleg Smolenkov
Russian officials and intelligence veterans claim that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov played a key role in provoking the CIA to extract its top Kremlin informant,…

Inside the Spy Scandal: The Rise and Disappearance of Oleg Smolenkov
Russian officials and intelligence veterans claim that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov played a key role in provoking the CIA to extract its top Kremlin informant,…

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An entire Russian column has been destroyed during a Ukrainian counter-attack in Pokrovsk.
Scores of military vehicles were left burning along a road in the eastern city, newly published footage shows.
A Ukrainian drone can…

Thailand and Cambodia are each accusing the other of reigniting a border row over the weekend, with at least 20 people killed in the latest round of fighting and hundreds of thousands once again fleeing their homes.
The decades-long dispute…

Austria has passed a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under the age of 14.
The conservative-led coalition of three centrist parties, the ÖVP, the SPÖ and the Neos, says the law is a “clear commitment to gender equality”, but critics…

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged Donald Trump not to pursue a Ukraine peace deal “above Europe’s…

Earlier this year, five European states — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland — announced plans to withdraw from an international landmine ban treaty, citing Russia’s threat and the need to restore anti-personnel mines to their…