Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus. Ukraine on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nation’s Security Council, accusing Moscow of holding Minsk as a “nu…

For the past fortnight, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Congress, the main opposition, have been engaging in a war of words in parliament over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on Indian democracy during a recent visit to London.

The United Nations has expressed concern over what it said were summary executions of prisoners of war by both Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.

Aid agencies working in Haiti have called for 120 million euros over six months to tackle food shortages affecting nearly five million people.

The US State Department has reported “significant human rights issues” in India, including targeting of religious minorities, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killings.

Hungary is in talks with France about the possibility of enlarging the French role in refurbishing its nuclear programme. This could eventually lead to the replacement of Russia at Hungary’s only atomic power plant, marking a shift in Prime Minister V…

French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met on Thursday to discuss “opportunities for cooperation” in migration, industry and space, according to a statement from the French presidency.

Six French nationals remain imprisoned in Iran. A seventh, the Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, is no longer behind bars, having been released from Tehran’s Evin prison in February. But the Iranian authorities have refused to return her iden…

At least five migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned and another 28 are missing after their boat capsized off Tunisia. The sinking is the latest such tragedy in the Mediterranean, the world’s deadliest migration route.

Disputes between France and Germany over the future of nuclear energy and the long-term acceptability of fossil fuel engines risk spilling over into a gathering of the 27 European Union leaders in Brussels on Thursday.