Deputies from Russia's nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) have submitted bills that would restore the country's tsarist-era national anthem, God Save The Tsar!, and the calendar the country used before the 1917 communist revolution.
The autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq has scheduled an independence referendum for September 25, officials said.
U.S. President Donald Trump has appeared to change course, urging Saudi King Salman to work for Arab unity after having appeared to side with the Saudis and other Arab states in a dispute with Qatar.
The U.S. House of Representatives late June 6 unanimously called for U.S. criminal charges against members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail who attacked protesters in Washington last month.
China is poised to start creating a network of overseas military bases after establishing a first facility in Africa, the Pentagon has said in a report that predicts that Beijing will seek to locate a base in Pakistan.
The Pentagon says the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) group has launched a strike against what it describes as pro-government forces in Syria.
U.S. President Donald Trump says that Middle Eastern leaders complained about Qatar when he demanded an end to support for radical ideology that encourages terrorism.
The United States is reviewing its participation in the UN Human Rights Council, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has told a meeting of the council in Geneva.
The ambassadors of the European Union member states decided on June 6 to prolong the bloc's investment ban against Crimea for another year, punishing Russia for its armed takeover of the Ukrainian region.
A U.S.-backed rebel alliance says it has begun a battle to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa, the extremist group Islamic State’s (IS) stronghold and self-declared capital in the country.
Russia says one of its fighter jets intercepted a U.S. bomber flying near its border over the Baltic Sea.
Afghanistan will host a multinational peace conference in Kabul on June 6, as the country reels from a wave of bombings and unrest that has left more than 100 people dead and hundreds wounded in the past week.
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