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Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shadowed by an agent linked to a political assassination team for almost a year before he was shot… Read more

Smoke as heavy as a winter fog hung over the last mile or so of the road into Irpin, just a 20-minute drive north-west of Kyiv. Trees and undergrowth… Read more

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is being devastated by another mass bleaching event, officials have confirmed.

It is the fourth time in six… Read more

There have been more than 70 separate attacks on hospitals, ambulances and doctors in Ukraine with the number increasing on a "daily basis", says the… Read more

Russia says it will focus its invasion of Ukraine on "liberating" the east, signalling a possible shift in its strategy.

The defence ministry… Read more

How could Japan ever contemplate getting nukes? It's a ridiculous idea. Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered a nuclear attack.… Read more

North Korea may have launched its largest intercontinental ballistic missile - and put the world on notice.

But it's the way the news was… Read more

At a vantage point somewhere between the southern Ukrainian cities of Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol, next to one of the last checkpoints before Russian-held… Read more