Turkey’s parliament on Thursday approved a tough pre-election law that could see reporters and social media users jailed for up to three years for spreading

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan backs the Kremlin’s idea of creating an international gas hub in Turkey and wants his government to quickly present implementation plans, media reported yesterday.

Even as extreme weather and climate disasters are multiplying, half of countries lack the advanced early warning systems needed to save lives, the United Nations warned yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that major leaks which suddenly erupted in the Nord Stream gas pipelines running from Russia to Europe were an “act of international terrorism”.

Romantic gestures take many forms... well Ukraine’s defence ministry yesterday posted a 41-second video on social media aimed at giving France a gentle nudge to show its love through weapons’ supplies after repeated criticism that Paris has not been doing enough.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for talks in Kazakhstan today, a meeting at which the Turks are likely to raise ideas for peace in Ukraine, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters.

More than 50 Western countries met yesterday to promise more weapons for Ukraine, focusing on its need for air defences after Moscow launched its most intense missile strikes since the start of the war.

Russia's president said Europe was to blame for its energy crisis with policies that starved the oil and gas industry of investment and said price caps would make it worse, as EU states tried to forge a deal on ways to contain soaring energy costs.

Rights groups voiced alarm yesterday over the extent of an Iranian crackdown on a Kurdish-populated city that has become a hub for protests.

The head of the UN refugee agency said yesterday that his organisation will need to make deep cuts with dire consequences for displaced

Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said yesterday.

Russia yesterday said three people were killed in after a truck exploded on its bridge linking Crimea -- a symbol of its annexation of the peninsula -- without immediately blaming Ukraine.

Schoolgirls chanted slogans, workers went on strike and street clashes erupted across Iran yesterday, as protests over the death of Mahsa Amini entered fourth week in defiance of a bloody crackdown.

A Moscow court on Friday ordered the seizure of Memorial’s Moscow headquarters, in a ruling delivered hours after the rights group was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, agencies reported.

About 250 pilot whales have died after beaching on New Zealand’s remote Chatham Island where the shark risk makes attempts to refloat them too dangerous, the government said yesterday.

At least nine people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal in Ireland’s northwest, police said yesterday.

The United States will soon be unable to provide Ukraine with certain types of ammunition that are essential to Kyiv’s battle against Russia’s invasion, as supplies are being used up faster than they can be replaced.

World food prices fell for a sixth month in a row in September, UN data showed yesterday, as the prices continued to decline since they reached a record high following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Leaders from across Europe met Thursday in Prague for the inaugural summit of a new forum aimed at bringing the continent together in the face of Russia’s aggression, with Ukraine’s president urging more support for Kyiv.

The UN rights council yesterday rejected a Western-led motion to hold a debate about alleged human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region after a UN report found possible crimes against humanity.