Navalny, a staunch critic of Putin, died in a Russian prison on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence

The US military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two US officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was the “child of Europe” in a message of unity yesterday, offering some reassurance at what felt like a rift as tensions rise with an assertive Russia.

The exiled son of Iran’s last shah called on US President Donald Trump on Saturday to help the Iranian people, a day after the American leader said a change of power would be the “best thing”.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday called for the removal of “all obstacles” he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire.

China’s foreign minister told his French and German counterparts that Beijing was not to blame for Europe’s economic and security problems as he pushed for more cooperation at a summit in Munich, a foreign ministry statement said yesterday.

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Twelve members of Italy’s fringe group CasaPound have been jailed for seeking to revive the Fascist Party, which ruled from 1922 to 1943 under dictator Benito Mussolini.

The UN’s climate chief on Thursday urged countries to unite against an “unprecedented threat” to international cooperation from pro-fossil fuel forces -- issuing the appeal as US President Donald Trump rattles the global order.

President Donald Trump’s pointman on Thursday announced the end of an aggressive immigration operation in Minnesota that triggered large protests and nationwide outrage following the killing of two US citizens.

A Ukrainian missile attack yesterday killed two people and injured three in the Russian city of Belgorod near the border, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

US President Donald Trump threatened Iran Thursday with “very traumatic” consequences if it fails to make a nuclear deal -- but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was skeptical about the quality of any such agreement.

A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida early yesterday with a crew of two US Nasa astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International Space Station (ISS) for an eight-month science mission in microgravity.

Six people died in Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight that targeted the southern port city of Odesa and energy infrastructure, officials announced yesterday.

The United Nations said yesterday it was deeply alarmed by the crisis unfolding in Cuba as the island nation struggles under what amounts to a US blockade of oil deliveries.

Gunfire killed two people and wounded another in an apartment at a historically Black university in the southern United States on Thursday, officials said, marking at least the third shooting on the campus since October.

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Russia pounded Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles overnight yesterday, further battering its energy system and leaving tens of thousands in the capital Kyiv and the cities of Dnipro and Odesa without heat, power and water, officials said.