North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has stressed Washington’s commitment to European security, especially in combating threats from Russia.
The Russian space agency says that a satellite that was launched from its new Vostochny Cosmodrome has failed to enter a planned orbit, another blow to Moscow's space program.
Kyrgyzstan's new president, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, has called Russia his country's "main strategic partner" but signaled that he will seek to balance ties with Moscow, China, and the West during his six-year term.
Reports from Iraq say at least 11 people have been killed and more than 20 others wounded in a gun and bombing attack southeast of the capital, Baghdad.
The Kremlin has vowed to defend Russian athletes who have been stripped of their Olympic medals, as Moscow continues to grapple with the fallout from a state-sponsored doping program documented by global investigators.
The United Nations special envoy for Syria, Steffan de Mistura, says the Syrian government has not yet confirmed its participation in the next round of peace talks in Geneva this week.
Reports from Pakistan say the authorities have detained at least nine people over the killing of a couple who had contracted a marriage without permission from their elders.
A monitor group says air strikes by Russian jets killed at least 53 civilians, including 21 children, in a village held by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in eastern Syria.
Pakistani Islamist activists say they will call off their weeks-long protests after reaching agreement with the government for the resignation of the country’s law minister, possibly bringing an end to days of deadly clashes in the capital.
Iraq's government has invited foreign energy firms to bid for the rights to explore for oil and gas in the country's border areas near Iran and Kuwait.
World athletics' governing body has maintained Russia's ban from international track and field, saying the country has not done enough to tackle doping.
Load more
