Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg renounced the throne in a surprise abdication on Christmas Eve, according to multiple reports.

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An increasingly complex conflict is emerging in the ruins of Bashar al-Assad’s fallen Syrian regime, pitting an ...

Asma Assad is being isolated to prevent infection and cannot be in the same room as other people, the Telegraph newspaper ...

Despite this, Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Russia's Chechnya, briefly ordered his commanders involved in the Ukraine war "to take no prisoners". Rachel Denber, Deputy Director of the ...

More than 7,000 people had taken shelter in the Rukban camp, near the border with Jordan, many of whom fled the regime and ...

Here are the key developments on the 1,031st day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.