An attempt to get UN Security Council approval for a statement calling for an end to violence in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and to spotlight the millions in need of humanitarian assistance was dropped Friday night after objections from India, Russia and especially China, UN diplomats said.
Myanmar security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to break up a protest in Yangon on Saturday, just hours after a United Nations special envoy called on the Security Council to take action against the ruling junta for the killings of protesters.
US Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell is suing former President Donald Trump over the storming of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, when violent protesters attempted to stop the counting of electoral ballots.
The Biden administration stepped up its condemnation of the coup in Myanmar on Thursday, demanding that military authorities stop their brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters and release demonstrators and journalists who have been detained.
Armenia would welcome the expansion of a Russian military base on its territory and the redeployment of some Russian forces closer to its border with...
China's top diplomat called Monday for new U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to lift restrictions on trade and people-to-people contacts while ceasing...
The Italian ambassador to Congo and an Italian carabineri police officer were killed Monday during an attack on a U.N. convoy in an area that is home to...
Myanmar police began to disperse protesters in the capital, Naypyitaw, on Monday as businesses around the country shut in a general strike called to oppose...
The United States is considering sanctions against Central Bank Gov. Riad Salameh as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement of public funds,...
To feed her family, Lebanese mother Sandra al-Tawil sold her fridge and washing machine.
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, spiritual leader of most of the world's Shiite Muslims, told Pope Francis in a historic meeting in Iraq on Saturday that the...
Missile strikes on makeshift oil refineries in northern Syria killed four people and injured more than 20 others, a war monitor said Saturday.
A gruesome video of a Kabul blast site Sunday, showing bloodied children standing over an unconscious woman, quickly went viral and sparked fresh outrage in...
David Delucia was settling back into his airplane seat and starting to relax on his way to a long-awaited vacation when a huge explosion and flash of light...
Tens of thousands of opponents of Myanmar's Feb. 1 military coup gathered on Sunday in towns from north to south, undeterred by the bloodiest episode of their...
When Joe Biden walked into the Oval Office for the first time as president a month ago, his pens were ready.
Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World...
Three sticky bomb attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least five people and wounded two others, a police official said, amid a surge in...
Two people were killed in Myanmar's second city Mandalay on Saturday when police fired to disperse protesting opponents of a Feb.
A Moscow court on Saturday upheld a ruling to jail the Kremlin's most prominent opponent Alexei Navalny, sealing his first lengthy prison sentence in a decade...
UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi was to open talks Saturday in Iran on the eve of Tehran's deadline for US sanctions to be lifted, as President Joe...
President Joe Biden used his first address before a global audience Friday to declare that "America is back, the transatlantic alliance is back," after four...
Europe and the United States should without delay send enough COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa to inoculate the continent's healthcare workers or risk losing...
A Sudanese refugee stabbed and killed an employee at a centre for asylum seekers in the southern French city of Pau Friday, a police prefecture official told...
After nearly a year of lockdown video meetings, even Group of Seven leaders failed to escape the mute curse Friday when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
Hundreds gathered outside of parliament in Bangkok late Friday holding a demonstration that coincided with the censure debate against the government of Prime...
President Joe Biden will seek on Friday to rally global democracies and European allies to work together to address a range of concerns about China, but is...
A young woman protester in Myanmar who was shot in the head last week as police dispersed a crowd died on Friday, her brother said, marking the first death...
The European Commission said on Thursday it was suing Slovakia for years-long breaches of legal limits on air pollution and started legal action against...
Direct flights from Russia to the Egyptian Red Sea resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada will resume in March after more than five years, the head of...
At least eight people were killed on Thursday near Burkina Faso's northern border with Niger, an area notorious for jihadist attacks, a security source and...
Canada on Thursday said it would impose sanctions on nine Myanmar military officials, saying the coup has led to mass detentions, the use of force and...
NATO defence ministers did not decide whether or when to pull out of Afghanistan, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.