Kyiv: Prosecutors in an area of Ukraine where Russian forces recently retreated in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive are accusing Russia of torturing civilians in one village that was...

Samarkand:  Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his Central Asian neighbours on Friday not to allow outsiders to destabilise them with "colour revolutions" and offered to set up a regional counterterrorism...

Samarkand:  Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin met for talks on boosting ties between their countries on Thursday, an encounter that follows a major setback for Moscow on...

Washington:  Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million since 2014 to try to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, the State Department alleges in...

Geneva: With weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming, the world is “heading in the wrong direction,” the United Nations says in a new report...

Geneva:  The UN labour agency estimates that some 50 million people worldwide were living in “modern slavery” - either in forced labour or marriage – at the end of last...

Berlin:  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made clear on Monday that he doesn't expect an agreement with Iran in the immediate future to restore Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers,...

New York: Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with readings of victims' names, volunteer work and other tributes 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on US soil. A tolling bell...

Washington: President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, laying a wreath at the Pentagon in a somber commemoration held under a steady rain. Sunday's ceremony...

Islamabad: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived before dawn Friday on a two-day visit aimed at expressing his solidarity with Pakistan's government and people over climate-induced floods that have killed 1,391...