Friday marked the official start of the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will be the most spread-out Games in history. (AP Photo) ...

In Milan this week, Olympics officials signaled a willingness to ease years of restrictions imposed on the country over its ...

Tensions in the Arctic are putting new pressure on Svalbard, a Norwegian-administered archipelago long seen as an example of international cooperation, as climate change transforms the region and ...

Ukrainian MP and Olympic champion Zhan Beleniuk believes that 2026 will see a mass return of Russian athletes to international competitions, including under their own national symbols.

Finland is barely out of the treaty banning them but the country's armed forces are already training soldiers to lay ...

Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.

Talks for a new treaty were frozen by the war in Ukraine. This afternoon, President Trump called for a “new, improved and ...

Four astronauts could blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) next week, after setbacks including a mysterious ...

When the International Space Station comes back to Earth in 2030, it will mark the end of three decades of peaceful ...

The Russian Red Cross (RRC) has long denied allegations of operating in occupied Ukraine, despite mounting evidence to the ...

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Ukraine's sports minister has hit out at FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who called for Russia's ban from international soccer to be lifted.