The authorities in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol say that nearly 40,000 people have fled over the past week. That's nearly 10 per cent of its 430,000 population.
North Korea fired suspected artillery pieces into sea, South Korea's military said, days after North's latest missile launch ended in failure amid country's recent burst of weapons testing activity
US lawmakers visiting Poland said Saturday that most urgent need in Ukraine's war against Russia is to equip and support the country in every way that will help it defend its independence
A former Apple employee has been charged with defrauding the tech giant out of more than USD 10 million by taking kickbacks, stealing equipment and laundering money, federal prosecutors said
In a statement posted on its social media pages, the office says that Assad met with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai
The 54-page text, titled Praedicate Evanglium or Proclaiming the Gospel, replaces the founding constitution Pastor Bonus that was penned by St. John Paul II in 1988
Lebanon was the world's second saddest country, with Botswana, Rwanda and Zimbabwe rounding out the bottom five
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission
Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky says it will take years to defuse the unexploded ordnance once the Russian invasion is over.
China's national health authorities reported two Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surge.
As Russian troops rained lethal fire on Ukrainian cities, Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally to lavish praise on his Russian forces
Norwegian authorities were searching Friday for a U.S. Marine Corps aircraft that went missing during a training exercise.
Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, colors that appeared to match the Ukrainian flag
Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican and longest-serving member of Alaska's congressional delegation, has died. He was 88.
The estimates from the IOM suggests Ukraine is fast on a course in just three weeks toward the levels of displacement from Syria's devastating war which has driven about 13 mn people from their homes
Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Russian negotiators in several rounds of talks with Ukraine, said that the sides have narrowed their differences on the issue of Ukraine dropping its bid to join NATO
It came just days after Francis told the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, that the concept of a just war was obsolete since wars are never justifiable
President Biden's campaign to unite the globe against the Russian invasion of Ukraine is being challenged not only by adversaries such as China but also by the world's most populous democracy, India.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, and has been attacking schools, hospitals and buildings where people sought safety in various cities.
The event included well-known singer Oleg Gazmanov singing Made in the USSR, with the opening lines Ukraine and Crimea, Belarus and Moldova, It's all my country.