Any Russian private citizens fighting with pro-government forces in Syria are volunteers and the Russian Defense Ministry has nothing to do with them, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. Based on accounts from families and friends of the dead...

Venezuela's opposition has decided to push back by one day to Thursday its planned march against the new assembly which will run the country indefinitely. The demonstration, earlier set for Wednesday "will be Thursday, the day the dictatorship plans to install the fraudulent" assembly, set...

Ten Russian servicemen have been killed fighting in Syria so far this year, according to statements from the Defence Ministry. But based on accounts from families and friends of the dead and local officials, Reuters estimates the actual death toll among Russian soldiers and private...

( The New York Times )- Contaminated vaccines in a rural village in South Sudan killed 15 children last month and endangered dozens more, according to a statement from the World Health Organization, Unicef and the health ministry of South Sudan. In the remote village of Nachodokopele in...