GENEVA: A recent shift in nuclear weapons policies in the US and Russia, involving upgrades, modernisation and growing arsenals is as…

MADRID: The Basque separatist group ETA apologised yesterday for the ‘pain’ and ‘harm’ it caused during its decades-long campaign of…

NEW YORK: A Liberian former warlord whose forces committed atrocities including murders and cannibalism during the country’s civil war was…

SALZBURG, Austria: Fifty-four people were treated for injuries after two train carriages collided at a station in the Austrian city…

HAVANA: Cuba’s new president Miguel Diaz-Canel became the country’s first leader in nearly 60 years who is not named Castro,…

SEOUL: The two Koreas opened a hotline between their leaders yesterday, Seoul’s presidential office said, a week before a summit…

BEIJING/MELBOURNE: Chinese and Australian naval vessels had an ‘encounter’ in the South China Sea this week, and China acted professionally…

LONDON: Commonwealth leaders agreed yesterday that Prince Charles should follow his mother Queen Elizabeth II as the next head of…