Russia on Thursday freed a U.S.-Israeli woman who was jailed on drug charges after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon, the RIA news agency cited the Federal Prison Service as saying. Naama Issachar’s release came ahead of talks in Moscow on Thursday between Putin and Israeli...

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 170, the National Health Commission said Thursday. Some 7,711 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, also known as 2019-nCoV, have been reported in China. It was reported that 38 people have died...

The White House has issued a letter to former national security adviser John Bolton, seeking to block the publication of his upcoming book, CNN reported Wednesday citing sources familiar with the matter. Axios news outlet also reported that the White House had issued the letter. The reports...

Twenty-six people were killed and 32 injured when a bus and an autorickshaw collided with each other and plunged into a nearby well in India, a local police official said Wednesday. The accident happened in the western state of Maharashtra late Tuesday, Suhas Deshmukh, a local police...

Fifteen people have been killed in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in militia violence since November, a local official said Wednesday, giving a provisional toll. In the past 24 hours, "14 bodies have been found hacked to death," while a pastor was killed in a...

Amid growing concern at the spread of a new virus outbreak in China, international sports have been postponed and Olympic qualifying tournaments are being taken elsewhere. The international ski federation Wednesday canceled the first World Cup races scheduled for testing the mountain venue...

India is now capable of making Pakistan "bite the dust" in less than 10 days in any new war with its arch-rival, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. The nuclear-armed neighbours have fought three wars and last February came close to a fourth with tit-for-tat airstrikes sparked by an attack...

Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by an outbreak of a new virus that has killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 on the mainland and abroad. A Japanese flight carrying evacuees home included four people with coughs and fevers. The...

Colombia said Tuesday it would seek the extradition of a fugitive former lawmaker arrested in Venezuela, though it faces a legal conundrum as it refuses to recognize President Nicolas Maduro's government. Former Colombian congresswoman Aida Merlano was arrested by Venezuelan security forces...

Coalition forces flew sorties over the site of a crashed US military jet in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, hours after Afghan security forces trying to reach the charred wreckage clashed with Taliban insurgents. The Bombardier E-11A -- used for military communications -- went down in snowy...

Chinese authorities Tuesday said that they mobilized medical personnel to fight fatal coronavirus outbreak but it lacks necessary medical supplies. As the death toll soared to 106 with cases of people affected by the virus mounting to over 4,500, China’s National Health Commission (NHC)...

Clashes between rival armed groups in Bria, a strategic town in eastern Central African Republic, have left dozens of dead, a senior official said Tuesday. "There are about 50 dead. Some bodies were immediately buried by relatives, so it is difficult to give a precise figure," said the...

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 106, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. Some 4,515 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, also known as 2019-nCoV, had been reported in 30 provincial-level regions by the end of...

Mexican migration authorities said they have deported 2,300 Hondurans who illegally crossed over from Guatemala with a caravan heading to the United States. The "assisted return" of the Central Americans took place between January 18 and Monday, according to the interior ministry and the...

China has quarantined millions of people and urged its citizens to delay overseas travel as it scrambles to stop a deadly coronavirus epidemic from spreading further. Authorities also ordered schools and universities to remain closed on Tuesday after extending a national holiday by a week...

The Taliban said Monday it had shot down a U.S. military plane in the central Afghan province of Ghazni, killing all personnel on board. "The plane, which was on an intelligence mission, was brought down in Sado Khel area of Deh Yak district of Ghazni province," Zabihullah Mujahid, a...

A plane operated by Afghanistan's state-owned airline Ariana crashed in the country's central Ghazni province, senior Afghan officials said Monday. Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor's office in Ghazni city, said: "A Boeing plane belonging to the Ariana Afghan Airline, has...

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 80, the country's health department said Monday. According to the National Health Commission, there were 2,744 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, also known as 2019-nCoV, including 461 in...

Former national security advisor John Bolton alleges in a book draft that President Donald Trump wanted to freeze Ukrainian military aid until Kiev investigated his political rivals, The New York Times reported Sunday. Democrats quickly seized on the report to press demands that Bolton and...

Protesters threw petrol bombs on Sunday night at an empty public housing complex in Hong Kong that had been earmarked to become a temporary quarantine zone as the city battles an outbreak of the SARS-like Novel Coronavirus. Hong Kong has declared the virus that first began in central China...