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The gunmen who abducted more than 150 church worshippers in Nigeria’s conflict-hit northwest are demanding 17 motorcycles as ransom from families

Spain’s foreign minister told Euronews that Europe must take full control of its own security in the face of rising geopolitical uncertainties. To this end, he said the EU must move towards creating a European army.

Drone strikes have intensified in and around al-Obeid in central Sudan as the country's devastating civil war closes in on the army-controlled city, causing significant civilian deaths in at least two cases, residents say.

ANALYSIS: Trump’s new enterprise is the clearest sign yet of his expansionist-interventionist intent – and however bizarre, we should take note, chief international correspondent Bel Trew writes

Trump heralds imminent Ukraine peace whilst formalising his Board of Peace at Davos, even as Greenland sovereignty remains firmly non-negotiable.

More than a year after a ceasefire nominally ended active fighting, much of southern Lebanon bears the ecological scars of war. Avocado orchards are gone and beehives destroyed. So, too, are the livelihoods they supported. Meanwhile, fields and forests have disappeared under the intense fire caused by white phosphorus shelling.…

The Trump administration’s recent announcement that it is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties is another blow to the global system where all countries unite to share concerns, agree on rules of conduct and determine agendas for collective action.

The U.N. World Food Program warns that over a million people in northeast Nigeria could lose emergency food aid soon without new funding

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the US president said that once the group is formed ‘we can do pretty much whatever we want to do’, days after his threats to Greenland

International coalition of legal groups focuses on political intimidation of lawyers and judges in US – once a role model

US president holds signing ceremony at World Economic Forum amid concerns new body seeks to replace UN