Chinese President Xi Jinping says his plan to recreate the old Silk Road is designed to increase and enhance international trade cooperation, as he bid to reassure critics of the $1 trillion infrastructure project.
Leaders from dozens of countries have begun arriving in China to attend the April 25-27 Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.
Iran's foreign minister has warned of "consequences" if the United States continues efforts to prevent Tehran from selling oil on international markets.
A report by the United Nations says U.S. and Afghan government forces killed more civilians than Taliban fighters and other militants for the first time during a three-month period since the UN began keeping records on civilian casualties in 2009.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree simplifying the procedure for people living in parts of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed separatists to obtain Russian citizenship, drawing a swift and angry response from Kyiv and criticism from the West.
Russia has launched a new, special-purpose, nuclear-powered submarine that is believed to be capable of carrying a new nuclear-capable underwater drone.
North Korea has confirmed that leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia "soon" and meet with President Vladimir Putin.
Beijing has lashed out at a U.S. decision to impose sanctions on countries that buy Iranian oil, warning that it will intensify turmoil in the Middle East and in the international energy market.
The Trump administration is poised to tell five nations, including allies Japan, South Korea and Turkey, that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. sanctions if they continue to import oil from Iran, according to the AP.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry falsely claimed on April 19 that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller "admitted" his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election did not find evidence of Russian meddling.
Two Saudi sisters, who say they fled their own country because of “oppression,” have applied for asylum in Georgia but still feared they could be reached by their family and forced back to Saudi Arabia.
The Kremlin has announced that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to visit Russia within the next 12 days.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has explained the process for redacting the special counsel's report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections -- saying no material was redacted on the basis of President Donald Trump invoking "executive privilege."
Hostility toward journalists often expressed by political leaders is putting media at risk globally, the watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its annual report published on April 18.
Fourteen people have been killed after unidentified attackers ambushed a bus in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, who is in Russia on a two-day official visit, is due to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A group of Russian veterans says a new film about Soviet troops in Afghanistan is "unpatriotic" and should be banned, while the director says it is an honest account of a disastrous conflict.
The Afghan government says it will send 250 delegates for talks with the Taliban in Qatar this week that are seen as a potential breakthrough in efforts to end the nearly 18-year war.
A raid by security forces on a militant hideout in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar has triggered a 17-hour firefight in which a police officer and at least six suspected militants were killed.
A Bahraini court has convicted 139 people on terrorism-related charges in a mass trial involving 169 defendants, and sentenced them to prison terms of between three years and life in prison.
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