Greece’s defence ministry yesterday announced a week-long shipping ban around Aegean islands facing a migration surge from Turkey, excepting only EU and NATO patrol vessels and registered commercial ships. The ministry said the ban to March 12 around the islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos was…

The Netherlands will put four people on trial next week over the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, giving families hope of justice even if…

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper accused Russia Wednesday of violating the Open Skies Treaty designed to improve transparency and confidence between the militaries of the two superpowers. Esper told a congressional hearing Russia had been blocking the United States from conducting flights over the Baltic…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal letter to “comfort” South Koreans fighting the novel coronavirus epidemic just a day after his sister condemned Seoul as a “frightened dog barking”, the South’s presidential office said yesterday. Pyongyang has imposed strict…

Britain’s Supreme Court yesterday said it had rejected an application by Dubai’s ruler to challenge a decision to publish rulings relating to a legal battle with his estranged wife. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, 70, applied to the UK’s highest court to block the publication…

While Super Tuesday left the Democrats with a pair of front-runners whom President Donald Trump believes he can define and defeat, there are still some…

Sri Lanka seizes record drugs haul at sea AFP, Colombo Two foreign trawlers packed with over $33 million worth of heroin and crystal methamphetamine were seized in Sri Lanka’s biggest-ever drugs bust at sea, a navy spokesman said yesterday. Troops found 400 kilogrammes (about 880 pounds) of heroin…