World Politics

The Minister for Foreign Affairs is heading to Papua New Guinea as the possibility of a new security deal with the country surfaces.

A long-awaited UN report into allegations of human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang is "deeply concerning", Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says. Audio

The UN accuses China of "serious human rights violations" in a report into allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Queen Elizabeth will meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his successor at her Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland next week.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has joined other world leaders in paying tribute to the late Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

Celebratory fireworks lit up the Kabul sky on the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, which the Taliban are marking as 'Freedom Day'.

Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said he would quit politics, prompting his loyalists to storm a government palace and fight with rival groups.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed its embassy in Poland's capital Warsaw is working with officials in Ukraine to try to repatriate Dominic Abelen's body.

The US Department of Justice has unveiled new details about its investigation into government papers that former President Donald Trump removed from the White House.

The final pair of working reactors at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant were briefly cut off from Ukraine's power grid on Thursday, Kyiv officials say.

At least 22 people were killed and dozens wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian railway station, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as his nation marked Independence Day.