South Korea is using a $13.7 billion arms deal with Poland - Seoul's biggest ever - to lay the groundwork for a military-industrial juggernaut that the two nations' defence companies hope will feed Europe's hunger for weapons far into the future.
Spain's ruling Socialists suffered heavy losses to opposition conservatives in Sunday's local election, with around 95% of the votes counted, showing their electoral vulnerability ahead of an end-of-year general election.
Erdogan's priorities for last term as Turkey president
Modi inaugurates grand new Indian parliament
Agony, ecstasy as Erdogan wins historic Turkey runoff
Erdogan: Turkey's undisputed titan enters third decade of rule
Gunfire adds to violations near end of breached Sudan truce
Russia on Sunday condemned U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham for telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a visit to Kyiv that U.S.
Fatalism takes over in bombed Russian border city Belgorod
Turkey voters divided in Erdogan's Istanbul birthplace
Ukraine reports 'most important' drone attack on Kyiv since invasion
Somalia to introduce direct universal suffrage in 2024
Russia's most powerful mercenary said on Sunday he was convinced that senior Kremlin officials had banned reporting about him on state media, cautioning that such a misleading approach would lead to a backlash from the Russian people within months.
Saudi Arabia and the United States called on Sunday for the extension of a ceasefire deal that has brought some let-up in a six-week war between military factions but little humanitarian relief for civilians.
A 14-legged giant isopod is the highlight of a new dish at a ramen restaurant in Tapei and it has people queuing up - both for pictures and for a bite from this bowl of noodles.
Russia unleashed multiple waves of air strikes on Kyiv overnight in what officials said appeared to be the largest drone attack on the city since the start of the war, as the Ukrainian capital prepared to celebrate the anniversary of its founding on Sunday.
Stephen Hawking's last collaborator on physicist's final theory
70 years after first summit, Everest keeps giving
War, and words -- Ukraine, Russia writers' dilemma
U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy have reached a tentative deal to raise the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, ending a months-long stalemate.
Turks vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff that could see Tayyip Erdogan extend his rule into a third decade and intensify Turkey's increasingly authoritarian path, muscular foreign policy and unorthodox economic governance.
French director Justine Triet became the third female director to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or on Saturday, beating out 20 other films in competition for the top prize.
Justine Triet: French director takes top prize at Cannes
Amid a sea of hundreds, perhaps thousands of Israeli flags at an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan sought to build on his momentum going into Sunday's runoff presidential election, urging Turks to vote as the man aiming to defeat him called on electors to pull their country from "the dark pit" of his two-decade rule.
Hundreds working for Germany in Russia forced to quit, leave
Iraq unveils $17 bn transport project linking Europe and Mideast
Egypt unearthed human and animal mummification workshops as well as two tombs in the ancient burial ground of Saqqara, officials said on Saturday, marking the latest in a string of discoveries that the country hopes can help revive its vital tourism industry.
Serbian President Vucic steps down as head of ruling party
Pacific island leaders will meet South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on Monday, their third summit in a week with a large economy as the region seeks stronger action on climate change as it becomes a focus of geopolitical power attention.
