Geoff Nixon

The cargo ship didn’t make it to Johan Helberg’s doorway, but it came close enough. “Five metres further south, and it would have entered the bedroom,” the Norwegian man told BBC News, describing the proximity of the NCL Salten that ran aground outside […]

American spies are saying the quiet part out loud to Chinese officials: Their knowledge of Beijing’s secrets would be welcome in Washington. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has taken to social media to publish slickly produced videos in Mandarin with Chinese subtitles. One features

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting from the

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that depriving Ukraine of potential additional defensive support would test its willingness “to settle” an unprovoked invasion of its borders by Russia that has entered a fourth year. “I have to know that they want to

Ukraine’s fight against Russia hasn’t gotten any easier with time. Attacks on its cities and infrastructure continue and its people have not had a chance to rest since Russia invaded three years ago.  And it hasn’t gotten any easier for aid

Ukraine has honed its army of drones to the point where these tools have become one of its most potent weapons in fighting back against Russia’s full-scale invasion of its borders. “Right now, the situation on the battlefield is really dependent on drones,

Kyiv faces sustained pressure from high-ranking U.S. officials to agree to a resource-sharing deal that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has judged is not in his country’s interest, under terms Washington has presented. U.S. President Donald Trump wants Kyiv to deliver what he’s called “equalization” for the

U.S. authorities are struggling to convince a skeptical public that reports of mystery lights flying over New Jersey and other states are nothing to worry about, but observers say how those officials are communicating that message is hampering the effort. The government is telling people

A 29-year-old Canadian woman is facing charges in New Zealand after customs authorities say she was caught with 10.2 kilograms of methamphetamine inside her carry-on baggage at an Auckland airport, with the contraband wrapped as if it belonged under a Christmas tree. The New

The world could soon see how North Korea’s soldiers perform in a modern conflict after NATO and the Pentagon confirmed this week that about 10,000 of Pyongyang’s troops have landed in Russia, with U.S. officials warning Thursday that the majority are in the Kursk region