The United States on Friday agreed with rivals Russia on China on a goal of withdrawing foreign forces from Afghanistan, a key component of a peace deal being negotiated by Washington. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy negotiating with the Taliban, met with Russian and Chinese representatives...

The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza. Arreaza has also served as the country's vice minister for the ministry for science, technology, and intermediate industries, executive vice president, and minister of the ecological mining development....

Sri Lanka Thursday lowered the death toll from the Easter suicide bombings by nearly one-third, to 253, as authorities hunted urgently for at least five more suspects and braced for the possibility of more attacks in the next few days. In rolling back the number of dead from 359, a top...

At least 1,300 mainly Cuban migrants escaped Thursday from a detention center in southern Mexico after threatening to set fire to the facility to protest against overcrowding. The escape occurred at dinner time when several inmates mutinied at the center in Tapachula, in the southern state...