Countries have overwhelming voted to give the world's chemical weapons watchdog new powers to assign blame for attacks using banned toxic materials, in a motion backed by the West and opposed by Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told U.S. national security adviser John Bolton that his visit to Moscow gives him hope that steps can be taken to improve badly strained relations between the countries.
A top U.S. State Department official says Turkey has been warned that its purchase of F-35 stealth fighter jets is in jeopardy unless it drops a plan to buy S-400 missile defense systems from Russia.
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton is due to arrive in Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov amid expectations he will lay the ground for a July summit between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
The United States needs to "up its game" in the Arctic, which is an increasingly important region as global warming opens up new sea lanes and makes oil and mineral resources there more readily available, the U.S. defense secretary said on June 25.
The European Union on June 25 opened new chapters in the accession negotiations with Montenegro and Serbia, bringing the two countries a further step closer to joining the bloc.
The Turkish election board has declared incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan the outright winner of the country's pivotal presidential election, avoiding the need for a runoff and providing him with sweeping new powers as president.
According to early results, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party were ahead in Turkey's parliamentary and presidential elections, which are seen as a test of his grip on power after more than 15 years of increasingly authoritarian rule.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and powerful Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced they have agreed on a political coalition in an effort to form a new government in the wake of elections in May.
Saudi Arabia's top religious authority welcomed an end to a decades-old ban on female driving on June 24, hours after women started taking to the wheel as part of a liberalization drive in the conservative Muslim-majority kingdom.
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