Umberto Bossi, who has died aged 84, was the rabble-rousing founder and leader of the Italian Northern League, or Lega Nord, ...

Semyon Gluzman, who has died aged 79, was the first Soviet psychiatrist to blow the whistle on the Soviet Union’s abuse of psychiatry – for which he spent seven years in the gulag.

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. academic Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of a former Soviet leader, was designated by Russia on Friday as a "foreign agent" - a term with ...

From human error to faulty technology, the world has come perilously close to nuclear war on numerous occasions since World ...

By framing a reduction of reliance on Russian oil as a matter of national security, Latvia offers a useful example of how to reduce car dependency and make real our climate goals. Latvia's ubiquitous ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 250 prisoners on Thursday - ​the biggest batch to be released so far - in return for a further easing of U.S. sanctions, the U.S. embassy in ...

The Trump administration believes that incentivizing Russia to end the war in Ukraine could eventually shift the global order ...

Last week, Israel began striking Basij checkpoints, extending the threat to low-ranking members.

Award-winning Australian documentary maker David Bradbury, has left Australia to join the Nuestra America convoy to Cuba, reports Melissa Johns.

Donald Trump, and the naivete of his supporters and opponents, is bringing about the collapse of the American empire. From Rome to the Soviet Union in 1991, empires have usually collapsed from within.

Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "In 2014, a Russian sound engineer named Leonid Vorobyev decided to give himself an unusual 60th birthday present. Instead ...