Cold war
Biden bids to renew US leadership in UN speech
Joe Biden's first speech as US president to the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York faces a tough reception.
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Putin submits to parliament bill on exiting Open Skies treaty
Moscow announced in mid-January it would withdraw from the treaty, which allows signatories to carry out unarmed surveillance flights over each other's territories.
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'New Cold War with China' demands US-Europe united front: Germany
With just five weeks to go until the US election, the German government's coordinator for relations with the United States and Canada, Peter Beyer, insisted there were more shared interests than differences.
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Russia denies US claims of violating Cold War-era nuclear treaty
Signed in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the INF resolved a crisis over Soviet nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles targeting Western capitals.
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How to prevent World War 3
Violence is raging in the Middle East, Europe and Russia are poised on the edge of conflict over Ukraine.
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We need a new international order. Here’s why
The roots of the order run back to the mid-1940s, when US officials concluded that the United States should work to shape the postwar settlement in more structured, collaborative and rule-bound ways.
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Salisbury attack: Ex-spy poisoned by nerve agent on his front door
Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, have been in a critical condition since being found unconscious on a public bench in the English city of Salisbury on 4 March.
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Italy's Berlusconi takes credit for ending the Cold War
Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has made many claims in the course of Italy’s rough-and-tumble election campaign.
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Russia says ready for talks with US to try to save arms pact
Its statement was published to mark the 30th anniversary of the treaty, which was signed with the Soviet Union.
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Countries are so last-century. Enter the 'net state'
As recently as the mid-19th century, the world was divided into empires, city states and fledgling nation states.
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North Korea is bringing back all the old Cold War fears. How did we get here?
In the 1950s the struggle between Communist and American-led UN forces over the Korean Peninsula nearly set off World War III.
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North Korea is bringing back all the old Cold War fears. How did we get here?
To understand the re-emergence of this danger, it helps to step back into the history.
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Obama challenges Communist-led Cuba with call for democracy
Obama said he was in Cuba to extend a hand of friendship and bury the last remnant of the Cold War.
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US, Cuba announce they will resume scheduled commercial airline service
The deal is expected to increase tourism and business on the communist-ruled island.
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Obama meets Raul Castro
Barack Obama met Raul Castro in the highest-level talks between the two countries in nearly 60 years.
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Fall of Berlin Wall and hopes of sports superpower status
German officials talked about staging an historic Olympics in East and West Berlin to celebrate the end.
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No links to who ordered gas attack - Syria
The US have still not found any direct link between Assad and the poison gas attack on Syria.
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Museum plan prompts row over Berlin's past
There is a tug of war over plans to remember the Cold War.
