The world's chemical weapons watchdog said on Wednesday it has collected samples to identify the substance believed to have caused the July 8 death of a British woman in Amesbury, England, and sickened her partner. The British government had asked the Hague-based Organization for the...

South Africans along with former U.S. President Barack Obama were marking the centennial of Nelson Mandela's birth on Wednesday with acts of charity in a country still struggling with deep economic inequality 24 years after the end of white minority rule. Obama was meeting with young...

A Moscow court Wednesday extended the house arrest of renowned Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov over a controversial fraud case to Aug. 22, TASS state news agency reported. Serebrennikov is awaiting trial on charges of embezzling 133 million rubles ($2.1 million at...

Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump backed away from his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he simply misspoke when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election....