Vladimir Putin ‘given three years to live’ and ‘is losing his eyesight due to illness’ spy claims

Pro-Biafra militants accused of killing pregnant woman and children in Nigeria

A spate of killings in south-east Nigeria blamed on a prominent Biafran secessionist group has sparked outrage and added another layer of insecurity in the country, where kidnappings for ransom are ...

Germany ‘breaks its promise’ to give Kyiv more heavy weapons

Germany has reduced military support for Ukraine “to a minimum” prompting accusations that it has reneged on its pledge to provide heavy weaponry. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, ...

Vladimir Putin ‘will lift blockade of grain ports’

President Putin has assured Germany and France that he will lift a blockade of Ukraine’s ports to allow the export of grain and other vital foods, according to a spokesman for Olaf Scholz. The ...

Russian hypersonic missile tests send message to Sweden and Finland over Nato bid

Russia has test fired a hypersonic missile from a warship in the Barents Sea in an apparent warning to Sweden and Finland as they seek to join Nato. The Russian defence ministry said a Zircon cruise ...

Defiant Zelensky leaves Kyiv to visit Kharkiv

President Zelensky toured Kharkiv yesterday in his first public appearance outside the Ukrainian capital since the start of Russia’s invasion. He visited troops on the front lines in a show of ...

Mahad Salad appointed as National Security and Intelligence Agency (NISA) Chief

Diplomats Fear Russia May Use Syrian Aid as Bargaining Chip in Ukraine

Stampede at charity event in Nigeria leaves 31 people dead and seven injured

Fighting focuses on Donbas, but Putin has not given up on Kharkiv – or Kyiv

Putin urged to hold ‘serious negotiations’ with Ukraine’s president Zelensky

European leaders urged Vladimir Putin to hold “serious negotiations” with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call on Saturday. French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor ...

Russia Fires Its Latest Hypersonic Zircon Missile

The Russian navy on Saturday conducted another test of a prospective hypersonic missile, a demonstration of the military’s long-range strike capability amid the fighting in Ukraine. The Defense ...

Macron and Scholz demand release of Ukrainians captured at Mariupol

The leaders of France and Germany yesterday urged President Vladimir Putin to free 2,500 Ukrainians who defended the Azovstal steel plant in the devastated port city of Mariupol and are being ...

Son of British MP in Ukraine ‘filmed destroying Russian armoured vehicle’

Surrounded, but Ukraine will fight to bitter end in east