The threat from espionage is high in Switzerland as global insecurity increases, with the main threats emanating from Russia and China, the country's Federal Intelligence Service warned Wednesday.

A punishing heatwave loosened its gripped on western Europe Wednesday and rolled eastwards, with Germany expected to record some of its hottest temperatures of the year so far. Germany's national ...

Hong Kong is expected to lead the world in IPO financing this year despite uncertainty from geopolitical tensions and trade tariffs, accountancy giant PwC said on Wednesday. The Chinese financial ...

France registered its second-warmest June since records began in 1900, said the country's ministry for ecological transition on Wednesday, as Europe swelters under an early summer heatwave. High ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed another group of political prisoners in the Moscow-allied country, his office said Wednesday, following the surprise release of a key opposition figure ...

The online retail platform of Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced Wednesday that it will issue $7 billion in subsidies for certain purchases, providing a much-needed boost for a country struggling ...

There were so many mines on Larisa Sysenko's small farm in Kamyanka in eastern Ukraine after the Russians were pushed out that she and her husband Viktor started demining it themselves -- with rakes.

Costa Rica's Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Congress, for the first time ever, to strip the country's president of his immunity from prosecution to be tried on corruption charges. President Rodrigo ...

A week before US President Donald Trump reimposes steep tariffs on dozens of economies, including the EU and Japan, many are still scrambling to reach a deal that would protect them from the worst.

Hajjar Shademani's family waited for hours in the heat and dust after crossing the border into Afghanistan, their neat pile of suitcases all that remained of a lifetime in Iran after being deported to ...

Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin spoke Tuesday by telephone for the first time in over two-and-a-half years, with the French president urging a ceasefire in Ukraine but Russia's leader hitting back ...

A two-year-old died in northeast Spain on Tuesday after being left in a car for several hours during a heatwave that has pounded the country and neighbouring Portugal. Emergency services in Valls, in ...