Like traders in a souk, politicians keep tossing out new spending targets: 2%, 3% or even 5%. The decisive factor, however, ...

France's prime minister has used special executive powers to get the 2025 budget approved without a vote by lawmakers ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Russian bomb destroyed the school building "even though dozens of civilians were there". The school is located in a part of Kursk held by Ukrainian ...

Nearly three years into the war, Ukrainians have grown used to bracing for brutal winters with electricity blackouts and ...

Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose main ...

In December, Ukrainian drones targeted oil depots and refineries in Smolensk, Oryol, Bryansk and Rostov — an area that had ...

Russian Lukoil oil refinery struck by multiple Ukrainian drones, military intelligence source claims Russian assault ...

In the past, the Russian president said that any peace deal should respect the “realities on the ground”, hinting that Moscow ...

A ‘100-day plan' for ending the war between Ukraine and Russia has suggested the long-running conflict could be over in just ...

All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid ...

Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising ...

Moscow's forces have captured Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and about to gain Toretsk, according to reports.