Vitaly Naumkin, a Russian adviser to U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura, said Tuesday he still considered Geneva talks on the Syria conflict relevant. "I am sure that on Feb. 8 there will be talks in Geneva and the process focused on a political resolution will continue," Naumkin told reporters....

Russia expects to have a dialogue with the Trump administration on strategic stability, including on nuclear weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. Lavrov added to reporters that such a dialogue could cover hypersonic weapons, a U.S. missile shield in Europe, space...

British American Tobacco agreed Tuesday to pay almost $50 billion (47 billion euros) for control of U.S. firm Reynolds American, creating the world's largest listed tobacco company. BAT will purchase the 57.8-percent of Reynolds American that it does not already own, BAT said, unveiling an...

After the Soviet Union sacrificed millions of lives to help defeat Nazi Germany, it received a token of gratitude from its allies: a chunk of territory surrounding the Prussian city of Konigsberg on the Baltic Sea. Now called Kaliningrad, the isolated and highly militarized Russian enclave of...