Americans are widely pessimistic about democracy in the United States, an AP-NORC poll finds July 14, 2023 at 07:15AM

Russia's Wagner fighters are training soldiers in Belarus July 14, 2023 at 03:51AM

Fighters from Russia's Wagner mercenary group are training soldiers in Belarus, the Belarusian defence ministry said on Friday. The ministry released a video showing Wagner fighters instructing Belarusian soldiers at a military range near the town of Osipovichi, about 90 km (56 miles) southeast of the capital Minsk.

Record-breaking heat bakes US, Europe, China July 14, 2023 at 03:30AM

Summer has just begun in the Northern Hemisphere but a brutal heat wave is already gripping parts of Europe, China and the United States, where record temperatures expected this weekend are a stark illustration of the dangers of a warming climate. Extreme heat advisories have been issued for more than 100 million Americans with the National Weather Service forecasting particularly dangerous conditions in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas.

North Korea’s new ICBM raises ability to strike US with nukes July 14, 2023 at 12:14AM

North Korea’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-18, could carry multiple nuclear warheads and strike the US mainland, according to analysis from weapons experts.

Putin says Russian mercenary group has no legal basis so 'doesn't exist' July 13, 2023 at 11:45PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Wagner private military company 'simply doesn't exist' as a legal entity, in comments adding to the series of often bizarre twists that have followed the group's abortive revolt last month — the most serious threat to Putin's 23-year rule amid the war in Ukraine. "There is no law on private military organisations. It simply doesn't exist," Putin said.