Ecuador breaks into the Mexican embassy and detains former Vice President Glas after receiving...
The Government of Ecuador entered the Mexican Embassy in Quito on Friday night and detained Jorge Glas, former vice president of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), after the Mexican Government had granted him asylum....
Jailed former Malaysia premier Najib Razak seeks to serve remaining sentence under house arrest
Najib, 70, was charged and found guilty in a corruption case linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of state fund 1MDB
He has served less than two years...
President Macron says France and its allies ‘could have stopped’ the 1994 Rwanda genocide
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide but lacked the will to do so, a strong declaration ahead of the African...
Japan to limit No. of asylum claims one can make to speed up deportations
Japan will enforce a limit on the number of times foreign nationals can apply for asylum under a new system starting in June, the government said Friday, allowing it to deport people...
Russian minister casts prospective Ukraine peace talks as Western plot to win hesitant Global...
Lavrov argued that the West is seeking to boost attendance at the planned round of negotiations in SwitzerlandHe emphasized that any peace talks would be a “useless waste of time” if they...
Palestinians eye UN membership vote soon as US pushes back
Any request to become a UN member state must first pass a vote by the Security Council , where Israel’s ally the US and four other countries wield vetoes
France denies Russian claim of discussion on potential Ukraine talks
Russia said that its defense minister Sergei Shoigu and French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu discussed the potential for talks on the Ukraine conflict during a rare telephone call on Wednesday, a claim that...
NATO marks its 75th birthday as Russia’s war in Ukraine gnaws at its unity
NATO marked on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America, with its top diplomats vowing to stay the course in Ukraine as better armed Russian troops assert control...
Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to replenish its beleaguered troops
Ukraine lowered its draft-eligible age for men from 27 to 25 on Wednesday, reflecting the strain that more than two years of war with Russia has put on its military and the need to...
NATO weighs a plan to provide long-term military help to Ukraine as Russian troops...
NATO is debating a plan to provide more predictable military support to Ukraine in coming years as better armed Russian troops assert control on the battlefield, the organization’s top civilian official said Wednesday.