Russian news reports say an executive with energy holding company Inter RAO has been arrested and charged with spying for an unnamed foreign country.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to give a closely watched speech about the United Nations Human Rights Council, amid reports that Washington is preparing to withdraw from the agency.
A new poll shows that more than half of Russians want President Vladimir Putin to stay in his current post after the scheduled end of his six-year term in 2024.
Crowds of protesters including coal miners, Chernobyl cleanup workers, and Soviet Afghan war veterans have clashed with police outside the Ukrainian parliament.
The United States and human rights watchdogs have condemned Iran's execution of a Sufi man who was convicted of killing three police officers during clashes between police and a Sufi sect in February.
Saudi Arabia's national soccer team says its players are safe after an engine appeared to catch fire on their plane as it was landing in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, where they are due to play their next World Cup match.
The United States has condemned Iran's execution of a Sufi man who was convicted of killing three police officers during clashes between police and a Sufi sect in February.
The U.S. Senate has passed a major defense bill that would block the sale of U.S. F-35 fighter jets to Turkey unless it abandons a deal to buy S-400 missile defense systems from Russia.
Afghan peace activists have arrived in Kabul after trekking some 700 kilometers on foot calling for an end to Afghanistan’s nearly 17-year war.
More Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iranians sought asylum in the European Union last year, despite a sharp decrease in the total overall number of asylum applicants, according to a new EU report.
Newly published satellite photographs suggest that Russia has rebuilt a weapons storage bunker in its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, suggesting that Moscow could be considering placing nuclear weapons there, according to a U.S. think tank.
The United States has called on Russia to release dozens of people it says have been identified by rights groups as political prisoners.
Amnesty International says Iranian authorities have executed a man convicted of killing three police officers during clashes involving members of a Sufi order, despite calls to stop his execution.
World powers slightly reduced their stockpiles of nuclear warheads to 14,465 at the start of 2018, driven by cuts by United States and Russia, although modernization programs are continuing, a new report shows.
A jailed Turkish-Kurdish politician has broadcast a campaign pitch from his prison cell a week ahead of the country’s June 24 election.
Amnesty International has warned that Iranian authorities are about to execute a man convicted of killing three police officers during clashes involving members of a Sufi order.
A suicide bombing near the governor's office in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar has killed at least 10 people, officials say -- the second such bombing in the province in as many days.
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