A small Portuguese fleet of three vessels captained by Vasco da Gama arrived in Kerala in May 1498 having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. The voyage consolidated a process of Portuguese expansion ...

Here, The Independent takes a look at some of the most significant moments of the war since it began ... Israel said it was releasing a total of 183 Palestinians from its jails in return.

Their motto is: "We know, we find, we destroy." President Trump's repeated claim before he took office, that he could end in just 24 hours the war that Russia launched with its full-scale invasion ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after decades of fighting. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal.

Russia’s undeclared war against the West is intensifying, leveraging fear, destabilisation and covert operations to undermine NATO unity and Western resilience. With the war in Ukraine, Russia is ...

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Historically, some have taken that as a sign for peace as Mars has been the “planet of war and conflict in many ... have absorbed approximately 11,000 total casualties per month.

But Trump’s second trade war is shaping up to be much different from his first. The president’s ambitions for a reordering of world commerce are broader. The opposition — at home and abroad ...

The UN General Assembly has affirmed Russia's responsibility to pay reparations estimated at $500 billion in damages caused by the war, but questions ... Of the total, nearly $19 billion will ...

Jon Jackson is a News Editor at Newsweek based in New York. His focus is on reporting on the Ukraine and Russia war. Jon previously worked at The Week, the River Journal, Den of Geek and Maxim.

US President Donald Trump has claimed that the war in Ukraine could be brought to an end by a fall in the price of oil. Speaking via video link at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday ...

On Wednesday, he threatened sweeping tariffs on Russia if Putin did not end the “ridiculous war”, saying: “We can do it the easy way, or the hard way”. Trump has been conspicuously ...