Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin's protégé and head of Chechnya, was urgently hospitalised in Moscow on the night of 24-25 December.

There have been no gun killings in the Republic of Ireland this year for the first time in nearly 60 years.

Finnish police on Wednesday seized a ship sailing from Russia on suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland, an area hit by a string of similar incidents in recent years.

Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page

One Russian official called the outage “a break from the endless viewing of unnecessary videos” and urged citizens to deliver holiday greetings in person.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his New Year address to the nation, said late on Wednesday that Ukraine wanted the war to end, but not at any cost, adding he would not sign a "weak" peace agreement that would only prolong the war.

The number of American citizens held in Venezuela has grown since the start of the U.S. military and economic campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.

Russell Allan Wilson, who spent several years fighting for Ukraine, has been remembered as someone who "gave his life so others could keep theirs".

 The CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to U.S. officials, undercutting an assertion the Russian leader had made to U.S. President…

Several Russian regions came under drone attack on the night of 31 December-1 January. The strikes have caused fires at oil refineries in Kaluga Oblast and Krasnodar Krai.

Police say blaze tore through crowded bar where people were seeing in the new year

After 401 years, the Danish postal service has ended letter deliveries as the country fully embraces the digital age.

Demonstrations against deteriorating living conditions have widened to include criticism of how Iran is governed

Data has been concealed relating to people fighting in Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

The interns would receive financial support from Danish taxpayers, at the same time as Trump threatens to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory

Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), was reported killed in action on Dec. 27.

Targets included Russia's Tuapse Oil Refinery, the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal, a Rosreserv oil base, a temporary military base for river boats, and ammunition depots in occupied Ukraine, the General Staff said.

Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine was doing everything it could to achieve a lasting peace, saying: “Signatures under weak agreements only fuel war. My signature will be under a strong agreement.”

The latest strike comes as the US Coast Guard searches for survivors of another that happened a day earlier.

Russia has asked the U.S. to stop its pursuit of an oil tanker that was heading to Venezuela and is now fleeing the U.S. Coast Guard in the Atlantic Ocean, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.

Brazil's Supreme Court has rejected former president Jair Bolsonaro's request to convert his prison sentence for plotting a coup to house arrest, according to a ruling published Thursday.