The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

British prime minister also confirms 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2bn) in new aid for Ukraine for the next financial year.

The long-term cost of failure would be far higher than any short-term bill for aiding Ukraine now. Yet Republicans are holding up $61 billion in aid in exchange for major changes to immigration policy.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un is continuing to ramp up his focus on nuclear weapons and taking a more aggressive military stance towards his neighbour South Korea.

Watch as Russia’s top court hears Alexei Navalny’s case against the Justice Ministry on Thursday 11 January.

South Korean ambassador urges Russia to end its military cooperation with North Korea and withdraw its military forces from territory of Ukraine

South Africa's long-held support for the Palestinian people can be traced back to the time of Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat

It is only on a voluntary basis. So how much to make of Russian authorities offering their citizens a ride out of Belgorod? The western city across from Ukraine's Kharkiv is increasingly the target of Moscow's own medicine: a steady diet of missiles from the sky. As NATO leaders meet…

Jailed Russian opposition leader ridiculed backlash to controversial event in first public appearance since disappearance

In 2023, the “LGBTQ+ movement” in Russia was labelled as “extremist”. This marked the culmination of a troubling 30-year cycle from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993, via the introduction of the “gay propaganda law” in 2013 through years of political and public discrimination against sexual minorities.