The European financial system is “resilient” the European Central Bank said on Monday, as global bank shares and oil prices slumped following the announcement that Switzerland’s biggest bank UBS will take over troubled rival Crédit Suisse.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting Russia this week, making his first trip to Moscow since 2019. 

A growing number of young people from Indian-administered Kashmir are finding their voice through rap.

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have taken part in an online course on Indian culture, diplomacy and business suggesting New Delhi is keen to engage with the Islamic militia that seized Kabul in 2021. But Delhi argues the fully online syllabus was free…

After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, shaking world markets, Nobel economics prize winner Joseph Stiglitz says US authorities “did the right thing” by providing federal money to protect deposits. But the economist also says the financial system needs a…

The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin on suspicion of the “unlawful deportation” of children from Ukraine, which would constitute a war crime.

A court in the eastern French city of Chambéry announced on Thursday it was in favour of extraditing wealthy businessman and former member of parliament Kostyantyn Zhevago to Ukraine.