By: Edith M. Lederer United Nations: It's almost certain that Afghanistan's Taliban rulers won't get to speak at this year's UN General Assembly meeting of world leaders. The Taliban challenged...

By: Edith M. Lederer United Nations:  Iran's new foreign minister has said that the country would return to nuclear negotiations “very soon,” but accused the Biden administration of sending contradictory...

By Mallika Sen New York:  Prime Minister Imran Khan has sought to cast Pakistan as the victim of American ungratefulness and an international double standard in his address to the...

United Nations: Racism, the climate crisis and the world's worsening divisions will take center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. chief issued a grim...

Beijing: Special envoys of China, Russia and Pakistan have met the top officials of the Taliban's interim government as well as Afghan leaders Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul...

New York: World leaders will be back at the United Nations for the first time in two years on Tuesday with a formidable agenda of escalating crises to tackle, including...

Toronto: Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party a victory in Monday's parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats failed and nearly mirrored the result...

Moscow: A gunman opened fire in a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday morning, leaving eight people dead and others wounded, according to Russia's Investigative Committee. The...

Cairo: The extremist Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings targeting Taliban vehicles in eastern Afghanistan. The claim, published late Sunday on the militant group's...

Kabul: Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who cannot be replaced by men, the interim mayor of Afghanistan's...