The secret mission left the smallest number of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay since the day the detention center opened in 2002.

Taipei sets aside fears of Chinese invasion and trade-war crossfire to focus on potential cooperation with the new administration

A map unveiled by Somalia’s federal government during a recent ceremony in Mogadishu has sparked a backlash from Puntland and Hirshabelle, two key federal states.

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

The Papua New Guinea and autonomous Bougainville governments have agreed on a moderator to be brought to try and repair an impasse over the province’s push for independence.

Moscow will consider any provocations against Russian peacekeepers and citizens in Transnistria is an attack on Russia.

After giving a speech from the symbolic Arc de Triomf in Barcelona and then evading a police dragnet, Carles Puigdemont has made it back to Belgium. ‘Today I’m in Waterloo after a few extremely difficult days,’ he posted on X.

France has shifted its decadeslong position on the status of Western Sahara. The Polisario Front, which claims to represent the Saharawi people, has vowed to push back against Morocco and France.

Chinese personnel used knives and machetes to puncture Philippine dinghies attempting to resupply an outpost in the South China Sea, Philippine officials say.

GP, celebrity chef and astrologer among defendants in third trial linked to far-right Reichsbürger

A message in a bottle launched from an island between the United States and Canada turned up 63 years later near Boston.

Taiwan’s president tells military academy cadets that the main challenge they face is the strong rise of Beijing.

Supporters of the Palestinians’ request for full membership in the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council to revive their application for admission submitted in 2011. But the United States is again almost certain to block it. The supporters’ letter to the council president included the names of 140 countries that have recognized a Palestinian state.

Politicians in Moldova’s Kremlin-backed breakaway region of Transnistria have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to “protect” it against “pressure” from Chișinău.

China uses fabricated polls and outlandish claims on social media to bolster its camp in Taiwan’s election.

Chief justice says government did not overreach its powers when it revoked autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.

Chinese military aircraft including 12 fighter jets also detected in Taiwan’s air defence zone in past 24 hours.

Venezuelans who turned out to vote in a referendum on the status of a disputed oil-rich territory long controlled by Guyana have overwhelmingly backed Venezuela’s territorial claim.

Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians fled the region after Azeri forces seized the territory after a lightning offensive.

New report says Hanoi created over 133ha of new land in 2023 with dredging tools it had not used before.