The son of a British couple held in Iran said Wednesday his parents were “caught in the middle” of geopolitical tensions as he urged the British government to act on their case.

Tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet” circumventing European sanctions navigated through Denmark’s waters at a rate of almost one a day in 2025, data compiled by the Danish Maritime Authority showed yesterday.

A top Russian military intelligence general was shot in a Moscow apartment building yesterday and hospitalised, Moscow said, in what it said was an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have agreed to work “closely” to maintain the key Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean following recent criticism by Trump of UK action, the prime minister’s office said Tuesday.

France plans to impose stricter limits on the acceptable level of a toxin called cereulide in infant formula after potentially contaminated products were recalled over 60 countries.

Moscow said yesterday two Russian crew members of a tanker seized earlier this month by the United States in the North Atlantic had been released and were on their way home.

Spain's left-wing government will on Tuesday approve a decree that will regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants, the migration minister said, the country's latest break with harsher policies elsewhere in Europe

The United States officially left the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the US and globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the UN health agency’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday the bloc plans "massive" investments in Greenland

Russia launched a barrage of drone strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight yesterday, cutting off power in five regions across the country amid freezing temperatures and high demand, Ukrainian officials said.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency on Friday advised airlines to avoid Iranian airspace, after threats of US attacks that have put the Islamic republic on guard.

The United States said Thursday it had approved a $1.5 billion deal for the expansion of a naval base in Peru, where China has funded a separate mega-port.

The UK no longer plans to make a new digital ID card mandatory to work in Britain, finance minister Rachel Reeves confirmed yesterday, in the latest U-turn by her embattled government.

Two people were killed and several wounded as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian border regions, local authorities said yesterday.

Trump says controlling the mineral-rich island is crucial for US national security given the rising military activity of Russia and China in the Arctic.

Russia said yesterday that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western governments would be “legitimate combat targets”, after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in the event of a ceasefire.

Russia yesterday accused the United States of stoking tensions and threatening international shipping with its seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic a day earlier.

Leaders from major European powers rallied behind Greenland yesterday, saying the Arctic island belongs to its people, following a renewed threat by US President Donald Trump to take over the Danish territory.

The US military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Madruo yesterday sparked alarm across the international community, with allies and foes of Washington and Caracas expressing disquiet.

Fire killed around 40 people and injured about 115 others