Donald Trump regained global leadership, wars intensified, new conflicts arose, and sports and cinema fostered unity. The year's key events shaped global politics and hinted at future challenges.

The Americas, Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa have already been marking the arrival of the new year with fireworks and festivities.

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Beijing has yet to announce the closing ceremony for its "Year of Friendship" with Pyongyang, a possible signal of disapproval.

Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk ...

Although the precise details of the arrangement have not been made public, there has been considerable media coverage of North Korea’s dispatch of combat troops to Russia to support Vladimir Putin’s ...

The Financial Times has reported that the Russian military has developed lists of targets containing 160 sites in Japan and ...

From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world began welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces ...

Three people are dead and a minor boy in critical condition after an American family were shot at in Mexico while on vacation ...