ACCUSED drug smuggler Charlotte May Lee could be left to languish in a hellhole months before being given bail, her lawyer ...

In the summer of 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared that the United States would observe “Baltic Freedom Day.” The proclamation turned a grim anniversary — the Soviet ...

Today is 38 years since Ronald Reagan's 'tear down this wall' speech, which ushered in the most free and fair election Russia ...

Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has been ranked 11th among the world's top 15 cities most favoured by tourists in 2025, ...

Ukraine suspects Russia is not really interested in pausing the conflict and ending the war, and the head of the country’s ...

Russia and Ukraine have met for peace talks in Istanbul after both sides stepped up attacks over the weekend. Follow the latest here and submit a question for our Q&A with defence and security analyst ...

This rather bizarre, homemade technology became a way to skirt censors in the Soviet Union – and even played an indirect role ... their equipment confiscated, and they may even be brought to court.

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

The flame-red Eierland lighthouse at the northern tip of Texel is the Dutch island’s most prominent landmark. On a dark night its light can be seen from Leeuwarden, 60 kilometres to the east, while by ...

The fact that troops from the Soviet Union captured Berlin on May 2, 1945, and planted the Soviet flag on the roof of the Berlin Reichstag is downplayed in Western media ...

Victory Day, celebrated on May 9 ... bolster patriotism and regain the superpower prestige it lost when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia for ...