PANAMA CITY, Dec 18 – Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino said on Thursday that the first direct flight under its “voluntary return” program will leave Panama for Venezuela on Monday. […]

AMMAN/RIYADH/BEIRUT/ANKARA, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Syrian, Kurdish and U.S. officials are scrambling ahead of a year-end deadline to show some progress in a stalled deal to merge Kurdish forces with

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Belarus has deployed Russia’s new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile system, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday. Read full story Date: 19 December, 2025 12:00 am

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – A Belarusian man accused by Russia’s FSB security service of blowing up two trains in Siberia on the orders of Ukraine’s intelligence services was jailed

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence director, Sergei Naryshkin, said that he had recently spoken by telephone to the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service

BRUSSELS, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Belgian police fired tear gas and water cannon on Thursday as a demonstration by farmers against an EU-Mercosur free trade agreement turned violent, with some

COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that Denmark’s 2018 “ghetto law,” which relocates residents from minority-heavy areas, could amount to ethnic discrimination, dealing a

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that an International Claims Commission for Ukraine launched by some European powers had no legal force for Russia and

TAIPEI, Dec 18 (Reuters) – A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck 18 km (11 miles) off eastern Taiwan’s Hualien city on Thursday, the island’s weather administration said, with no immediate reports

DUBAI, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Oman and India signed a comprehensive economic partnership agreement, Oman’s state news agency reported on Thursday. Read full story Date: 18 December, 2025 7:00 pm