OUAGADOUGOU (AFP)-  Heavy gunfire was heard Friday near the French embassy in Ouagadougou, the capital of the Sahel state of Burkina Faso, an AFP reporter said. Witnesses said five armed men got out of a car and opened fire on passersby before heading towards the embassy....

Russia has called off strategic talks with the U.S. set for this month after a Washington delegation snubbed a meeting on cybersecurity, Moscow's ambassador to the U.S. told TASS news agency Friday. Anatoly Antonov said Washington's last-minute pullout from talks in Geneva at the end of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The U.S. State Department accused Russia on Thursday of developing destabilizing nuclear weapons in violation of its treaty obligations after Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech unveiling a new array of nuclear weapons. State Department spokeswoman...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday that elements of NATO's anti-missile system deployed in Poland, Romania and Alaska were like an "umbrella with holes in it", Russian news agencies reported. "It turns out that the anti-missile umbrella has holes in it," Interfax cited...