United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he is trying to convince U.S. President Donald Trump's administration of the value of investing in foreign aid and diplomacy and warned that if Washington pulled back as a global leader, other states would step up.
Russia has lifted some of the sanctions it imposed on Turkey after a Turkish military jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border in November 2015.
Several thousand people took to the streets in Morocco after dark on May 30 to demand the release of the leader of months of protests in a neglected northern region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on May 30 both dismissed allegations of Russian meddling in last year's U.S. presidential campaign as "fiction" or "fake news" created by Democrats to explain their defeat in the election.
The Russian Defense Ministry says a Russian warship and a submarine in the Mediterranean Sea have fired four cruise missiles targeting positions and equipment of the extremist group Islamic State (IS) near the Syrian city of Palmyra.
At least nine people were killed and more than 90 were wounded in a powerful explosion in the center of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on May 31, a Health Ministry official said, adding that the number of victims is likely to rise.
Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan on May 30 gunned down a close aide and relative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan militant leader who signed a peace deal with the government last year, officials said.
The White House praised the relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, just hours after the president criticized Germany on trade and defense.
A court in the Czech Republic has held an extradition hearing in the case of a Russian computer-hacking suspect at the center of a tug-of-war between Washington and Moscow.
German authorities say they have arrested a 17-year-old Syrian national suspected of planning a suicide attack in Berlin.
Two policemen were wounded when a bomb exploded in Awamiya in eastern Saudi Arabia, where many of the country's Shi'ite Muslim minority live, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump has complained on Twitter about the U.S. trade deficit with Germany, the latest salvo in a sharp exchange that began during his visit to Europe and the Middle East last week.
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