Pope Francis has urged Europe to find “courageous courses of peace” to end the war in Ukraine on a five-day visit to Portugal for a major Catholic youth festival.

Former US president Donald Trump has been indicted over his efforts to upend the results of the 2020 US election. It is the most serious legal threat he has had to face so far and comes as he campaigns to return to the White House. 

The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it would allow environmental activists to “assemble peacefully” at this year’s UN climate talks, despite a ban on unauthorised protests in the Gulf state.

A petition calling for the release of Louis Arnaud, a Frenchman detained in Iran since the end of September, has collected more than 100,000 signatures in two weeks, his support committee said on Tuesday. It is urging the French government “to intensi…

While the Pentagon has declined to detail specific systems in the new $345 million security weapons aid package for Taiwan, a senior department official said Tuesday it includes “asymmetric capabilities” […]

Australia will begin building Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) munitions by 2025, in a new co-production agreement with the U.S. announced on July 29. The new […]

The European Union and the Philippines will restart negotiations on a free-trade agreement as they seek to accelerate “a new era of cooperation”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday.

Haiti has welcomed “with great interest” a Kenyan offer to lead a 1,000-strong multinational force to bolster security in the country that has been wracked by gang violence.

India has banned the export of two million tonnes of rice to fight rampant inflation and protect its domestic supply after Russia cancelled a UN-backed deal allowing Ukraine to ship its grain worldwide. But some fear the move could help drive up food …