United Nations: The world's problems seized the spotlight Tuesday as the UN General Assembly's yearly meeting of world leaders opened with dire assessments of a planet beset by escalating crises...

Canberra (Australia): A military exercise in Fiji involving the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand ends this week as the traditional allies counter China's growing influence in the region....

United Nations:  Warning that the world is in “great peril,” the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle...

Moscow:  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday blasted what he described as U.S. efforts to preserve its global domination, saying they are doomed to fail. Speaking while receiving credentials from...

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...