Qatar has agreed to take a 19 percent stake in Rosneft, rescuing the Russian state oil giant after its hopes of selling a major stake to a Chinese company fell through.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has strongly criticized a ban on the Telegram messaging service that was imposed by the country's judiciary, saying his administration does not support it.
The Pentagon has launched of a new naval command to bolster the U.S. and NATO presence in the northern Atlantic Ocean, citing an increased Russian presence in those waters.
U.S. President Donald Trump says the time and place for his landmark meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been set, although he declined to reveal the details.
The Swedish Academy has announced that the Nobel Prize for literature will be not awarded this year following the biggest controversy to affect the award since its founding more than 100 years ago.
The Kremlin has hailed Czech President Milos Zeman's statement that a small amount of the type of the nerve agent Britain says was used to poison a former spy was produced in the Czech Republic, saying it undermines London's claims about the attack.
Britain's Foreign Office says a U.K. citizen reportedly arrested in Iran is not currently being detained by authorities there.
Officials in Afghanistan say a gunman has shot and killed a deputy counterterrorism official in the country’s western province of Farah.
Tehran will not renegotiate a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on May 3.
The Russian Defense Ministry says a military plane has crashed in Syria, killing two pilots aboard.
About 3,800 ancient artifacts that were illegally smuggled out of Iraq and sold to the U.S. Hobby Lobby store chain were returned on May 2.
Mike Pompeo has been sworn in as the new U.S. secretary of state, promising "tough diplomacy" to advance U.S. interests.
Many thousands of people have joined in protests across Armenia in support of opposition leader Nikol Pashinian's call for a general strike following a parliament vote that denied him the prime minister's post.
The funeral of RFE/RL journalist Sabawoon Kakar took place in Kabul on May 1, one day after he was killed in a suicide bombing.
The U.S. government's watchdog on Afghanistan says the number of Afghan security forces has decreased by nearly 11 percent during the past year as security in the country has deteriorated.
Armenia's parliament has voted 45-to-55 against opposition leader Nikol Pashinian as the country's next prime minister, leaving him eight votes short of the simple majority he needed to win the post.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed on Monday, April 30, that USA is responsible for “war, insecurity and bloodshed in the region”.
The United States has decried the killing of journalists in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan and accused the militants of trying to undermine the country's upcoming elections by attacking the "cornerstone of democracy."
The New York Times is reporting that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has given a list of questions to lawyers for President Donald Trump as part of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether Trump obstructed justice.
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