Kabul: Afghanistan's ruling Taliban announced a ban on Sunday on poppy production, even as farmers across the country began harvesting the bright red flower that produces the opium used to...

Kyiv:  Talks to stop the fighting in Ukraine resumed Friday, as another desperate attempt to rescue civilians from the encircled city of Mariupol failed and the Kremlin accused the Ukrainians...

Kyiv: A convoy of buses headed to Mariupol on Thursday in another attempt to evacuate people from the besieged port city, while Russia pressed its attacks in several parts of...

Brussels:  NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. Russia...

Kyiv: Russian forces pounded areas around Kyiv and another Ukrainian city overnight, local officials said Wednesday, just hours after Moscow pledged to scale back military operations in those places. The...

Dubai: A Saudi-led coalition battling rebels who hold Yemen's capital Sanaa began on Wednesday a unilateral cease-fire in the years-long war, even as insurgents said they rejected the proposal. The...

New York:  US markets headed higher in premarket trading on Tuesday as another round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine got underway. On Wall Street, the futures for the...

Istanbul: Turkey's foreign minister says Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have reached “a consensus and common understanding” on some issues. Mevlut Cavusoglu said the two sides made “the most meaningful progress”...

MELBOURNE: More than three weeks after Shane Warne’s death at a Thailand villa, his statue at the Melbourne Cricket Ground remains decorated with flowers, cigarettes and beer cans left by fans...

By: Yuras Karmanau Lviv:  Ukraine could declare neutrality and offer security guarantees to Russia to secure peace "without delay,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ahead of another expected round of talks...