Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his government considered the remote possibility of US military action against Canada, describing it as an “extreme tail risk” scenario that Ottawa had a responsibility to prepare for. In an interview with The New York...

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Iran has given the United States six days to respond to its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, as British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in New York amid heightened tensions over the vital shipping route. Araghchi...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told world leaders at the United Nations that Russian President Vladimir Putin remains the main obstacle to ending what he called a “ridiculous and never-ending war”. He urged countries to increase pressure on Moscow by...

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A UK judge has refused bail to Indian lawyer Vijay Aggarwal, who is accused of sexual assault and human trafficking, citing a significant risk that he could flee the UK to avoid trial. The bail hearing took place at Southwark Crown Court, where Sasha Wass,...

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Human-caused climate change likely contributed to destabilising a rock-and-ice slope whose collapse triggered the deadly Nepal-Tibet disaster on August 26, according to a scientific assessment of the event. The study linked decades of warming to thinning glaciers,...

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