Kim Jong Un is committed to sending North Korean teams to the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics, IOC chief Thomas Bach said Saturday after a rare meeting with the leader of the nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang. Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, also said the IOC will...

Russia has told Britain it must send home "just over 50" more of its diplomats in a worsening standoff with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. Russia has already retaliated in kind against Britain and ejected 23 British diplomats over the...

Saudi air defense forces intercepted a missile fired by Houthi fighters in neighbouring Yemen at the southern city of Najran on Saturday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television reported. Al Arabiya gave no further details. The Houthi-run Saba news agency earlier said a ballistic missile was...

The Chinese government will spend 1.875 billion yuan ($298.92 million) to improve irrigation systems in the heavily ethnic Uighur southern part of the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday. The government has increasingly turned its...