Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is plunging ahead with its plans to take over Essequibo, the oil-rich region controlled by neighbouring Guyana. He has ordered the state oil company to issue…
Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza. The scale of what’s been happening is unprecedented. Hamas breached the wire that separates…
Russia has a programme to sabotage wind farms and communication cables in the North Sea, according to new allegations. The details come from a joint investigation by public broadcasters in…
A newly detected asteroid has a very small chance of impacting the Earth in 2046, Nasa tweeted on Tuesday. If it does hit, the asteroid, roughly the size of an…
Burkina Faso’s self-declared leader says the man he ousted a day ago in a coup is plotting a counter-attack. Capt Ibrahim Traoré also accused the French army of harbouring Lt…
China is kicking off its biggest-ever military exercises in the seas around Taiwan following US politician Nancy Pelosi’s visit. The live fire drills began at 12:00 local time (04:00 GMT)…
Russia has warned Lithuania of “serious” consequences after it banned the rail transfer of some goods to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. Russia “will certainly respond to such hostile actions,”…
Russia has told the US that it has no intention of invading Ukraine, after officials from both countries met for high-stakes talks in Geneva. After a meeting that lasted for…