Russia must be ready to use nuclear weapons, Putin adviser says
Karaganov tied the argument to President Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Valdai forum on October 1.
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Flávio Bolsonaro vows to change Brazil’s constitution as run-off nears
The Liberal Party candidate has won the backing of a defeated rival and promised a harder line on crime before the October 25 vote.
Downing Street says Fairford is safe as Washington plays down bomber withdrawal
The British Government has insisted the Gloucestershire base is secure, though American officials have given competing accounts of why the B-1s left.
Home Office hands out free hijabs to small-boat migrants
The British department says the law obliges it to provide religious clothing, while the opposition wants the practice stopped at once.
Turkey and Pakistan send troops to Saudi Arabia as Mecca defence pact is invoked
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Rubio lands in Iceland as US tightens its Arctic grip
The visit comes two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland and five weeks after Icelanders voted against reopening European Union accession talks.
US withdraws bombers from British base at centre of Iran plot inquiry
The aircraft left RAF Fairford a week after a security alert that Prime Minister Andy Burnham has linked to Iran.
Russia and Ukraine vow deeper strikes
Moscow has promised to intensify attacks on the Ukrainian capital after Zelensky said Kyiv would hit Russian refineries harder, while Germany signed 15 agreements…
Netanyahu pledges more submarines and warships as sea becomes ‘international battlefield’
Israel's naval expansion rests on German shipyards at a time when Berlin's arms exports to the country are running at record levels.
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Flávio Bolsonaro outpolls Lula in Brazil’s first round as the Right gains in Congress
The October 25 run-off opened a four-week contest over who negotiates for Brazil inside a Mercosur deal the European Union began applying only in May.
Nationalist parties tighten grip on Bosnia as Dodik claims victory off the ballot
Record-low turnout and the fall of the Croat presidency seat to HDZ BiH point to a hardening ethnic divide as Bosnia's EU bid stalls.
UK borrowing costs rise to highest level since 1998
Five-year yields, which are more sensitive to the outlook for interest rates and inflation, reached their highest since July 2008.
US diesel export ban threat presses Europe to open emergency fuel stocks
Washington has asked the European Union to release 120 million barrels from emergency stocks, with member states meeting the European Commission on October 2 to…
State Department strips a quarter of a million visas under Trump
Ordinary European tourists mostly travel without one, though officials and regulators in Brussels have already been caught by Washington's widening net.
Passengers stop dramatic cockpit attack on Dubai–Tel Aviv flight
Flight FZ1073 left Dubai International in the morning with about 170 to 180 people on board, most of them Israelis, including children.
Burnham stakes next election on scrapping first past the post
The Prime Minister used his first Labour conference speech to promise a manifesto pledge to replace Britain's voting system, without once naming Nigel Farage.
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What is the Cardiff pact, the Irish, Scottish and Welsh memorandum to dissolve the UK with Trump’s backing
The three first ministers signed as party leaders a text with no dates and no mention of the word 'referendum'.
Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko calls for new Russia-West coexistence model
The EuroChem founder says Russia and Europe will ultimately have to find a way to coexist and trade, and that the question is what rules will govern them.
Burnham reopens the Brexit question
The British Prime Minister has promised to put options for a new relationship with the European Union to the country at a summit delayed since July, and has not…
Mamdani unveils anti-Semitism strategy days after Netanyahu clash at the UN
New York's first municipal plan against anti-Jewish hatred commits millions to security and education though it declines to define the term.
Mohammed VI makes El Mansouri Morocco’s first woman head of government
The PAM leader takes charge of a government Brussels relies on to police the EU's southern border, six days after an election in which fewer than four in 10 voters…
Milei gives Britain two weeks to halt Falklands oil project
Buenos Aires has threatened to take the Sea Lion development to a United Nations maritime tribunal in a dispute that also touches EU trade policy.
19 months prison for Turkish comedian who ‘insulted’ Erdogan
He was acquitted of praising crime and criminals, a charge added later over a joke about an organised-crime family known as the Daltons.
Swiss voters reject neutrality initiative, keeping sanctions on Russia in place
The measure was rejected in all 26 cantons, failing both the popular and cantonal majorities required for a constitutional amendment.
Former Sevilla and Porto striker Luís Fabiano runs for Brazil’s Congress
The Brazilian forward will be on the ballot in São Paulo on October 4, at an election that renews the whole of a parliament Brussels now has to deal with.
Israel expels Dutch diplomats over settlement goods ban
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced the decision on Sunday, once The Hague’s ban on settlement goods had entered into force.
Britain’s defence secretary tells Milei that Argentina cannot take the Falklands
Wes Streeting said the question was settled in 1982, while Brussels keeps out of a dispute that now runs through its trade ties with Buenos Aires.
Vučić quits Serbian presidency to run for prime minister
The Serbian leader has stepped down seven months early, clearing the way for a return as head of government if his party wins the October 25 election.
British police arrest five near air base and evacuate Gloucestershire village
Officers have given no indication of a motive and have not linked the five men to any country, group or cause.
Netanyahu accuses Britain and France of colonial hypocrisy at the UN
Israel, he said, occupied "a tiny sliver of land" equal to about a third of one per cent of the Arab world's landmass.