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South Korea’s special envoy, Song Young-gil, departed for Moscow on Monday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to convey a personal message of South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

The…

Talks last week between leaders of China and the Philippines were frank and friendly, with no threats or bullying, Manila’s foreign minister said on Monday, after his president said he was warned…

A group of Notre Dame graduates walked out of their graduation ceremony Sunday in protest against US Vice President Mike Pence and his policies.

Pence was delivering the commencement speech…

At least 17 Iraqi soldiers were killed in suicide attacks by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, according to a local security official.

Brazilians around the country staged demonstrations on Sunday to call for their president to step down after the Supreme Court opened an investigation into allegations he endorsed the…

A bomb at a hospital in the Thai capital wounded 24 people on Monday, the third anniversary of a 2014 military coup, the government said, with the army chief blaming groups opposed to the junta.…

Venezuela possesses 5,000 Russian-made MANPADS surface-to-air weapons, according to a military document reviewed by Reuters, the largest known stockpile in Latin America and a source of concern…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned as leader of Turkey’s ruling party on Sunday, pushing back criticism that his tenure has curtailed freedoms and polarized the country as…

The Chinese government “systematically dismantled” CIA spying operations in China and killed or imprisoned up to 20 informants over a two-year period.

Quoting 10 current and former US…

Brazilian President Michel Temer on Saturday angrily challenged a recorded conversation implicating him in a corruption probe, saying he would continue as president and ask the Supreme Court to…

The last Syrian militants and their families are being taken out from the last opposition-held neighborhood of the central city of Homs, the provincial governor said.

Talal Barazi also told…

The leaders of two of Mexico’s main opposition parties on Saturday floated the possibility of joining forces in the 2018 presidential election to defeat the ruling Institutional Revolutionary…

More than 200,000 protesters took to the streets of Venezuela on Saturday, day 50 of an angry and sometimes deadly showdown with the unpopular President Nicolas Maduro.

As with many of the…

Washington announced a huge arms deal with Riyadh on Saturday, as US President Donald Trump began a foreign tour looking to leave domestic troubles behind.

At the United Nations, North Korea’s deputy ambassador, Kim In-ryong, said Pyongyang would never abandon its “nuclear deterrence for self-defense and preemptive strike capability” even if the US…

Turkish police killed two suspected self-styled Islamic State militants in a clash during a raid on an apartment in the capital Ankara overnight.

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group claimed a suicide car bombing on a highway near oilfields in Iraq’s southern Basra Province on Friday.

More than 50 people have been killed in…

US Defense Secretary James Mattis delivered a somber caution on North Korea saying any military attempts to resolve the crisis would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale”. 

An attack on an airbase in south Libya has killed 141 people, mostly soldiers loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar, a spokesman for his forces said on Friday.

It is still unclear what factors led to the current political crisis in the Czech Republic, which is yet to be resolved, Prague-based political analyst, Oskar Krejci, told Sputnik.

In an…

Eleven members of an Afghan family were killed on Friday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb while they were travelling to an engagement ceremony in the country’s volatile east.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said China threatened to go to war after he asserted the Southeast Asian nation’s sovereignty over disputed territory.

Emmanuel Macron has said France will be “uncompromising” in the fight against “terrorists” in Mali, during a short visit to the country.

France’s new president also reaffirmed his…

Brazil’s political crisis headed into a weekend dominated by protests and President Michel Temer’s attempt to secure enough allies to save himself after being accused of obstructing justice.

Dogged by controversy at home, US President Donald Trump opened a nine-day foreign trip on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, looking to shift attention from a spiraling political firestorm over his…