MOSCOW, Oct 4 — Russia plans to sharply increase defence spending, cut funding for education and raise taxes next year as costs mount in its war with Ukraine, draft budget documents

BOGOTA, Oct 3 — China’s influence in Latin America is now viewed more positively than that of the United States, a major poll conducted in 17 Latin American countries showed

LOS ANGELES, Oct 3 — Sea levels in California are set to rise by as much as a foot (30 centimetres) in the coming days as an enormous wave washes

NEW YORK, Oct 3 — An alleged gang rape at Cornell University, detailed in a graphic lawsuit last month, has provoked fury in the United States over sexual violence on

LONDON, Oct 3 — A UK-Iranian dual national arrested over a mysterious incident near a British military airbase has been released on bail, counter-terrorism police said on Saturday. The 25-year-old

WASHINGTON, Oct 3 — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) yesterday called on the White House and Congress to demand the release of Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi, an American teenager

DUBAI, Oct 3 — The UAE’s attorney general said the co-pilot of a flydubai flight to Israel had planned a “terrorist act” and used the cockpit’s emergency axe to attack

NEW YORK, Oct 3 — New York Governor Kathy Hochul vowed yesterday to close a legal loophole that makes it harder to prosecute rape cases if the victims were willingly

MADRID, Oct 3 — Fresh protests over housing are due to take place in Madrid and other Spanish cities today, a day after parliament rejected two government measures to strengthen

BANGKOK, Oct 3 — When China opened its first overseas air force base this week, a joint facility in isolated Laos, it was sending a signal — its foreign military