Vladímir Putin

North Korea’s ties with Russia, renewed engagement with China and interest from the White House are giving the leader greater room to maneuver

Chad and Venezuela announced their withdrawal from the institution following pressure from the Trump administration

Long-range missile and drone attacks, coupled with the stalemate on the front line, are driving up civilian death tolls on both sides, with the number of victims already nearing last year’s total

Moscow and Pyongyang are finalizing construction of their first direct road link while Volodymyr Zelenskiy says the Kremlin plans to bring another 30,000 North Korean troops to fight in Ukraine

The Russian former Kremlin insider, sidelined by Moscow after condemning the war in 2022, steps aside as chief of world chess’s governing body, with Viswanathan Anand taking over on an interim basis

Marco Rubio is ramping up pressure on the institution and its staff and urging Washington’s allies to turn their backs on it as well

Russia faces the dilemma of which front to reinforce: Moscow and its energy system, the Donbas, or the Black Sea peninsula

Previously the economic engine of the Russian-occupied peninsula, the region can no longer welcome tourists as its resources have hit rock bottom 

The Kremlin’s recent offensive on the Ukrainian capital, which on Monday claimed about 20 lives, has laid bare one of Kyiv’s most pressing military vulnerabilities

The Danish expert, adviser to the European expert panel on crisis and emergency preparedness, warns that war is already a real risk in Europe and that hybrid attacks are a reality

Doubts about Donald Trump’s commitment to the military alliance and the Russian threat are pushing the continent to embrace a new era of defense

The ambitious strategy of Kyiv’s Ministry of Defense, along with the rapid evolution of its arsenal, coincides with Moscow’s shortage of air defenses

Seven former leaders or armed commanders from Africa and Asia are held preventively at the Hague detention center, including former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte

The largest city on the Crimean Peninsula is struggling to return to normal after a Ukrainian bombing campaign that has put Russian infrastructure under severe strain

NASA ordered its astronauts to shelter in a capsule after Roscosmos unilaterally decided to repair an air leak. An incident that exposes a more dangerous fissure: lack of trust between Moscow and Washington

The annual meeting of the group of advanced economies will take the pulse of the transatlantic tie and address the wars in Iran and Ukraine, as well as the relationship with China

The SIPRI annual report warns that countries are once again relying on nuclear weapons as an instrument of power. The nine states that possess them are upgrading and modernizing their arsenals

The leader of the far-left party La France Insoumise, who launched his campaign last Sunday in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, is the only clear candidate right now for the 2027 French presidential election

As the war in Ukraine continues, Russia is intensifying a covert pressure campaign on NATO’s eastern flank that is unnerving European governments and intelligence services

The economic forum has faded after four years of war in Ukraine, but loyalties and contracts are still being woven behind the scenes

The British historian, who has announced a work on the Battle of Britain and predicts a war in the Baltic, devotes his new book to the role of the Siberian holy man in the collapse of the Romanov Russian empire

In Moscow, the EU is equated with Nazi Germany. An escalation against the bloc would allow the Kremlin to carry out a new mobilization

Problems with online payments and ATMs have pushed citizens to withdraw record amounts over the past three months

The maritime route between Sweden and Denmark has become a key point for Moscow, which uses it to move oil from the Baltic to the North Sea