China has started its most expansive military drills in a year around Taiwan, just days after Lai Ching-te took over as the island’s new president.

More than a thousand people have been arrested in the lawlessness that has raged since the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.

Premier Li Qiang’s visit confirmed the mask is back on and the tactics have changed, but China’s strategy has not.

Troops, advancing deep into western Khan Younis, stormed one hospital and put another under siege. Meanwhile, the US and UK have struck more Houthis targets in Yemen.

Turmoil should be expected after his economic reforms, the new Argentinian president warned. But many have already had enough.

Crown Prince Frederik will formally take the Danish throne from his mother on Sunday in a program that will include a small reception with guests, a cannon salute and fireworks to honour Queen Margrethe.

For two days and nights, disgruntled Chinese citizens have staged protests on a scale not seen since 1989.

MPs and protesters quickly voiced opposition to the most serious challenge to the country’s democracy since the 1980s.

The ruling clears the way for the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to start as planned on April 15.

Currently the foreign minister, Jeremiah Manele has pledged to continue the Pacific Island nation’s foreign policy that made it grow close to China.

“I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era,” said the Polish leader.

Turkish Family Affairs Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya was prevented from entering her country's mission in Rotterdam and escorted to the border by police.

The hidden toll of the war on Ukraine’s children is clear as air raid sirens fail to deter the 15 or so girls and boys in a basement classroom.

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Of the roughly 20 million books in Harvard University’s libraries, one has long exerted a unique dark fascination, not for its contents, but for the material it was bound in: human skin.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won a landslide victory in India's most important battleground state, Uttar Pradesh.

Six people have been charged with spying for China in three separate cases in Britain and England, in a pushback that some say was overdue.

As 2022 comes to an end, let’s remember that good things happened this year, too.

The trip comes amid and growing public concern about Berlin’s commercial reliance on the global economic powerhouse.

At a dusty border crossing known as Zero Point, tired teenagers make their way home after working to support their families.

In an interview to coincide with Bastille Day, the French President said the country would enter a period of energy sobriety because Russia was weaponising gas supplies.

By the time the balloon became visible in Montana, President Joe Biden had already been briefed and the White House was scrambling to decide whether to blast it from the sky.

Beijing said on Sunday that the Chinese military reserved the right to use “necessary means” in response to similar incidents in the future.

A fire at a zoo in Germany in the first minutes of 2020 killed more than 30 animals, including rare and endangered species.

The annual update to the United Nations' living heritage list includes hawker food, competitive grass mowing and camel racing - but no Australian customs.