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Armenia has formally joined the international criminal court (ICC), officials said, a move which traditional ally Moscow has denounced as unfriendly....

Instruction manuals died out as video games introduced tutorials instead. But now games such as Tunic and The Banished Vault are bringing them back

Taro Aso, vice-president of ruling LDP, said Yoko Kamikawa ‘not that good looking’, got her name wrong, used ageist jibe and mixed up her place in history...

Constitutional change could face fight in Senate after national assembly approves measure by 493 votes to 30...

Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters...

There’s a pretty cool set of footage from CBC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GApsl5_4PsE

Plans to make vaping less appealing also to include restricting fruity flavours and introducing plain packaging...

Live coverage thread of the International Court of Justice and the case of South Africa vs. Israel.

Washington’s ambassador says Budapest is ‘really alone’ and describes its foreign policy as a ‘fantasy’...

More than 100,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protest against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans at a meeting of extremists....

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, fears that if Donald Trump returns to the White House next year he could make unilateral concessions to Russia that override Ukraine’s interests and branded the former US president’s claims he could stop the war in 24 hours as “very dangerous”....

While social media firms have long faced scrutiny from Congress and civil rights organizations over their impact on young users, the new wave of lawsuits underscores how parents are increasingly leading the charge, said Jim Steyer, an attorney and founder of Common Sense media, a non-profit that advocates for children’s online...

Hamas has released a video announcing the death of two Israeli hostages and claimed that they were killed by Israeli airstrikes....

Church court says Aleksiy Uminsky broke his oath by refusing to recite ‘Prayer for Holy Rus’, which church has made compulsory at services...

Voters will decide the unresolved question of the civil war: do we move backwards, or forwards toward true democracy?...

Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said....