Political leaders in Lithuania were briefly directed to air raid shelters on Thursday after the alarm was raised over an airspace violation from Belarus, Lithuanian media reported.
Media reports stated that Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and (...)
The BRICS group of nations condemned the increase in tariffs and the recent Iran conflict, but refrained from pointing a finger at US President Donald Trump at their summit in Brazil on Sunday
The group's declaration, which also took aim at Israeli (...)
"What they're showing on Russian TV are fairy tales for fools. Most of Mariupol still lies in ruins," says John, a Ukrainian living in Russian-occupied Mariupol. We've changed his name as he fears reprisal from Russian authorities.
"They are (...)
The era of nuclear disarmament is coming to an end while new technologies push the risk of nuclear conflict higher, SIPRI warned on Monday.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) stressed in its annual assessment of the state (...)
A prisoner exchange is under way between Russia and Ukraine, governments in Moscow and Kyiv have confirmed.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would unfold "in several stages" over the coming days, adding that the wounded, (...)
Russia and Ukraine have each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.
They both returned 270 servicemen and 120 civilians on the Ukrainian border with (...)
The mayor of Nagasaki has announced the city will invite representatives "of all countries" and regions to the peace memorial marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
The invitation to the 157 countries and regions that have (...)
The Lithuanian army says it is searching for four US soldiers missing for two days during drills in the Baltic state amid reports they had died.
The four soldiers and their tracked vehicle had gone missing on Tuesday afternoon near the border with (...)
Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh consecutive term as president of Belarus at a ceremony in the capital Minsk.
During the ceremony, Lukashenko poked fun at those who call him 'Europe's last dictator' by claiming Belarus has more (...)
The European Commission remained conspicuously silent after Poland doubled down on its refusal to implement the Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was once described as a "historical" legislative achievement to allow member states to manage the (...)
The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the UN to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration's change of stance on the war.
First, the two countries opposed a European-drafted (...)
US President Donald Trump pushed back Tuesday against Ukraine's objections to being excluded from talks between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war in eastern Ukraine.
He also seemed to suggest that Ukraine was to blame for a (...)
RIYADH — The Council of Ministers reiterated Saudi Arabia's welcoming of the talks between Russia and the United States in Riyadh, saying that this reemphasizes the Kingdom's commitment to global peace and security. Crown Prince and Prime Minister (...)
The external borders of the European Union registered more than 120,000 cases of pushback by national authorities against irregular migrants in 2024, according to a new report by a group of nine human rights organizations.
The report, released on (...)
Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump administration source told CNN Wednesday.
Vinnik is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that (...)
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia officially disconnected from a shared energy system with Russia and Belarus on Saturday.
The BRELL (Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) system was established after the Soviet Union's dissolution to ensure a (...)
Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus — and lean in more with their (...)
Brussels has threatened Belarus with a fresh raft of sanctions after President Alexander Lukashenko looked certain to win his seventh consecutive election since 1994 — a vote broadly understood to be rigged in his favor given his iron rule over the (...)
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to call what's happening this weekend in Belarus an election.
"It's a sham," the exiled opposition leader says. "This is a military-style operation; a performance staged by the regime to hold on to power."
For three (...)
ALULA — The Saudi Council of Ministers extended congratulations to Donald Trump on his inauguration as US President. The Cabinet session, chaired by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman in AlUla on Tuesday, acknowledged the (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not allow Russia to "earn additional billions on our blood" and had given the EU a year to prepare.
The European Commission said the continent's gas system was "resilient and flexible" (...)
North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses in fighting in Russia's Kursk region and facing logistical difficulties as a result of Ukrainian attacks, Ukraine's military intelligence said Thursday.
The intelligence agency, known under its acronym (...)
Georgia and Turkey on Tuesday received stinging report cards from European Union ministers over their accession process, while Ukraine and Moldova mostly got gold stars.
In enlargement conclusions released as they were meeting in Brussels, EU (...)
More than 300 people have been arrested since mass protests erupted in Georgia six nights ago, and an increasing number of accounts have emerged alleging violent attacks by police.
One man has told the BBC how he was repeatedly kicked in the head, (...)
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk inspected military fortifications along the country's eastern border with Russia's Kaliningrad region on Saturday, describing the initiative as "an investment in peace."
The visit comes ahead of Poland assuming (...)
