German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Tuesday pressed his Russian counterpart to allow humanitarian relief supplies to reach people in rebel-held eastern Aleppo in Syria, members of Steinmeier's delegation said. Steinmeier spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the...

Russia plans to send 100,000 tons of wheat in humanitarian aid to Syria this year, government officials said Tuesday. A source at the agriculture ministry has said Russia has been considering sending around 100,000 tons of wheat to Syria from government stocks. "I can't say how much, but...

Embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that she would allow the National Assembly to determine her fate, signaling that she would resign over a corruption and influence-peddling scandal if lawmakers so demanded. Relinquishing her previously defiant tone, Park struck a...

(The Daily Star)- French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called on Tuesday for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been devastated by fighting. "More than ever before, we need to urgently put in...