Five countries have won uncontested elections in the U.N. General Assembly to serve two-year terms on the Security Council - Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Peru and Poland. The 193-member assembly also voted overwhelmingly Friday for the Netherlands to join the council for one year...

A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their marathon 196-day mission to the International Space Station. "All is well. The landing has taken place. Now the cosmonauts will be evacuated...

Iran has stayed within key limits on its nuclear activities imposed by a deal with world powers but is close to once again breaching a ceiling on its stock of one chemical, a quarterly report by the U.N. atomic watchdog showed on Friday. The report was the second since the January...

Iraqi forces have recaptured around half of two neighborhoods in west Mosul that are among the targets of a broad offensive against militants launched last week, officers said on Friday. Iraqi security forces are more than seven months into a massive operation to retake Mosul from ISIS,...