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De Croo, a former prime minister of Belgium, told the BBC: "This winter is going to be the toughest one since the war".He said Ukraine started "from a very weak base going into this winter". He added the UN...

Saudi Arabia has closed a critical oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones launched from Iraq, as conflict in the Middle East widens.Iraq said it had fired a military commander and launched an investigation after admitting the drone...

The Philippine Coast Guard says it has recovered 30 bodies from the wreckage of a ferry that caught fire this week, bringing the total death toll to 35. More than 130 people were on board the MV June Aster...

Warning: This story contains distressing detailsPolice in the US state of Mississippi have made their first arrest in the case of a black woman found dead and hanged from a tree, and say they could soon take more people...

"Now that they are there, they're going to be entrenched," Hisham al-Omeisi, senior analyst at the Brussels-based European Institute of Peace, told the BBC. "And it's going to be a lot more costly to push them out."Of course, the...

Three Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils commemorating Beijing's 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests have been handed prison sentences of up to seven years.Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, were convicted last month of inciting others...

On Friday, Yemeni pro-government forces withdrew from Perim (also known as Mayyun). Witnesses and news agencies reported that Houthi forces moved on to the island.The Houthis later issued a statement, saying that their military operation to expel Saudi-backed forces...

Fighters from the Iran-backed Houthi group have seized territory close to the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea - a key trade gateway that links Asia and Europe. Houthis have said they pose no threat to international shipping...

Princess Astrid of Norway, the sister of the late King Harald V, has died at the age of 94, two days after attending his funeral, the country's royal palace has announced.The new king, Haakon VIII, said that "throughout her...

Militants in Yemen used an artificial-intelligence tool to try to develop location-guidance software for weapons, according to a threat report released by Anthropic, an incident that comes amid rising public concern that advanced AI could be harmful to human...