Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal ‘the same day’ as Moscow’s conditions for export of its own grain and fertilisers to the global markets are met, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters yesterday.

Russia said yesterday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in July.

The world is perilously off course in meeting the Paris climate deal’s goals for slashing carbon pollution and boosting finance for the developing world, according to the UN’s first progress report on the accord.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday he would be willing to testify in an enquiry into allegations of foreign meddling by China, Russia and other countries in two elections won by his party.

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare sixth-century gold jewellery using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said yesterday was Norway’s “gold find of the century”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to fund research into artificial intelligence as competition with the West to develop such technology heats up, according to a Kremlin document published yesterday.

The UN yesterday called for strict rules on the use of AI tools such as viral chatbot ChatGPT in classrooms, including limiting their use to older children.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not planning to make a video address at the upcoming G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, the Kremlin said yesterday. The meeting comes amid fraught relations between Moscow and the West over the conflict in

The Kremlin yesterday denounced US plans to provide depleted uranium tank rounds to Ukraine, saying Washington would be responsible for any negative lingering impact of the munitions’ use.

Virtually everyone in Europe lives in polluted towns and cities where annual average levels of fine particulate matter are higher than the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommended limit

The number of people under 50 diagnosed with cancer has surged worldwide in the last three decades but it is not fully clear why, a study said yesterday.

Climate change is having a measurable impact on air quality and therefore human health, meaning the two must be tackled together and not in isolation, a report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday showed.

Storms have killed at least 12 people in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, with a Greek region hit by more rain in 24 hours than it normally sees in a year, officials said yesterday.

Russia shot down at least three Ukraine-launched drones early yesterday that were targeting the country’s capital, the Russian defence ministry said.

The world inched a step closer towards tackling plastic pollution, with the United Nations publishing the first draft of a binding treaty to tackle the scourge.

France was due to receive five Afghan women “threatened by the Taliban” after repeated requests it create a humanitarian corridor for women shut out of public life, an official said yesterday.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said after talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday that it would soon be possible to revive the grain deal that the United Nations says helped to ease a food crisis by getting Ukrainian grain to market.

The number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats from northern France to Britain hit a new daily high for 2023, UK government statistics released yesterday showed.

Russia launched a drone attack on southern parts of the Odesa region yesterday, hitting Danube River port infrastructure and injuring at least two people, Ukrainian officials said.

Russia is trying “to silence” the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov by branding the journalist a foreign agent, the body in charge of the prestigious award said yesterday.