Category: 2. World

Deep fear has long pervaded the arid savannah plains and highlands of north-western Nigeria – even before the US air strikes on the Islamist militants who have made this area their base on Christmas night.

The heavily armed jihadists, who dress in…

The much-anticipated talks lasted two-and-a-half hours, and that’s an achievement in itself. Presidents Trump and Zelensky had never before spent this long in one room, negotiating.

Afterwards, optimism was much on display at Mar-a-Lago. It was a…

The Iran-backed Houthis have halted their attacks on Israel since a fragile truce began in Gaza in October. File
| Photo Credit: Reuters

At least 13 people have been killed after a train derailed in the south of Mexico, local authorities have said. 

The Mexican Navy said the train was carrying 250 people, nine of whom were crew members, when it derailed in the state of Oaxaca. 

Of…

Richard Milne’s reporting on Donald Trump’s appointment of Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as special envoy for Greenland is thorough in its recounting of events, reactions and diplomatic fallout (Report, December 24). Yet it misses a deeper,…

The Albanian nationalist Vetevendosje party has won a landslide victory in Kosovo’s parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results.

With 90% of the votes counted, the party, whose name means “self determination”, was on 50.8%, meaning…

Donald Trump has said a deal to end the war in Ukraine is “closer than ever” but has admitted that “thorny” questions over the future of the eastern Donbas region have yet to be resolved, after a two-hour meeting on Sunday with Volodymyr…