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Polish authorities have arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting a Russian activist critical of President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and are investigating whether Russia is behind it, senior officials said Thursday.

A former U.K. border official and a retired Hong Kong police officer were given prison sentences on Thursday for spying on dissidents and critics of Beijing in Britain.

The memories of Colombia's six decades of armed conflict are still like open wounds etched on its victims' bodies and minds.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday told NATO leaders that the Pentagon is launching a six-month review of U.S. force posture and basing in Europe designed to ensure that America's allies eventually take the lead role in their own defense.

Israeli troops will continue to occupy large swaths of territory in southern Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Forces announced Thursday, drawing a firm rebuke from Tehran and complicating the upcoming negotiations between Iran and the U.S.

Keir Starmer isn't on the ballot, but the U.K. prime minister's future is on the line in a special election on Thursday.

At least seven Chinese developers now produce systems with powerful capabilities such as coding, reasoning, multimodal recognition, and agentic tasks downloadable by anyone in the world.

As the U.S. and Iran prepare for a consequential 60-day period of negotiations, some hope diplomats could use it as an opportunity to push for the release of Americans wrongly detained in the Islamic republic.

The Bank of England has held its main interest rate at 3.7% as the inflation pressures on the British economy have become more benign after the U.S. and Iran signed a deal to sign deal to end their war.

Ukraine hit a major Moscow oil refinery for a second time in a week and disrupted commercial flights at the city's airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia's all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, Russian ...