With the German federal election of 2021 being re-run for half a million eligible voters in Berlin, conservative opposition CDU is hoping for a boost in votes, calling upon voters to send a ‘stop sign’ to the governing centre-left coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz.

With organs short in supply, scientists are working hard to develop treatments for organ malfunctions independent of human donors. One such example is the use of artificial organs developed with the help of stem cells.

The EU on Wednesday (3 January) added Russia's Alrosa, the world's biggest diamond producer, as well as its CEO Pavel Alekseevich Marinychev to its sanctions list as part of its ban of import bans over Moscow's war on Ukraine.

Turkey said on Tuesday (2 January) it would not allow two minehunter ships donated to Ukraine by Britain to transit its waters en route to the Black Sea since it would violate an international pact concerning wartime passage of the straits.

The arms race across the Taiwan Strait and Chinese military pressure against the island Beijing claims as its "sacred" territory is unlikely to end no matter who wins Taiwan's closely watched elections.

Russia pounded Ukraine's two biggest cities on Tuesday (2 January) in a new wave of heavy air strikes that killed at least five civilians and prompted calls for the West to quickly provide more military assistance.

The European Union on Tuesday (2 January) insisted Somalia's sovereignty should be respected after Ethiopia signed a controversial deal with breakaway Somaliland.

The European Commission is expected to table its proposed climate target for 2040 on 6 February, in what many see as the current administration's legacy for the new team that will be appointed to lead the Brussels-based executive after the June EU elections.

Japanese investigators are preparing to probe the collision of two airplanes at Tokyo's Haneda airport, weeks after the global airline industry heard fresh warnings about runway safety.

Israel killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday (2 January), Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said, raising the potential risk of war in Gaza spreading well beyond the Palestinian enclave.

Peace was a recurring theme in the 2024 New Year messages of European leaders. But the question remains: How can we truly achieve it, and make it sustainable?

As the World Health Organisation's (WHO) global accord on pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response is slowly progressing toward a final draft, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and some of his MPs are targeting it with disinformation while the Health Ministry remains tight-lipped.

Russia pounded Kyiv and Kharkiv with missiles on Tuesday (2 January), Ukrainian officials said, hours after President Vladimir Putin promised to avenge what Moscow said was a Ukrainian attack on the Russian city of Belgorod that killed 24 civilian people.