Ukraine's parliament voted Thursday to extend regulations giving limited self-rule to separatist-controlled eastern regions, a prerequisite for a deal to settle the five-year conflict there. Lawmakers gave a one-year extension to the regions' "special status", which was adopted in 2014 and...

Underscoring U.S. lawmakers' continuing unhappiness with Russia, a Senate committee Wednesday advanced legislation seeking to hamper Russian energy pipelines and boosting NATO but delayed voting on a measure nicknamed the "sanctions bill from hell" that would punish Moscow for meddling in the...

Democrats warned that US President Donald Trump was on the verge of dictatorship while Republicans fiercely defended his record at the opening of a stormy, historic debate on impeachment charges Wednesday. The parties held tightly to diametrically opposed views of Trump as they weighed...

Whether Beijing and Washington reach a trade deal or not, China is already speeding up efforts to break its reliance on a country that is one of its biggest economic partners but also its biggest adversary. The effort has gained greater urgency for Beijing after more than a year and a half...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Wednesday that President Donald Trump issued a warning on election meddling to Russia's foreign minister, who said the topic never came up. The White House issued a statement after Trump's closed-door meeting Tuesday with Lavrov that said the...

As the U.S. House of Representatives moves closer to impeaching President Donald Trump, larger questions loom in the Senate, where Trump's Republican allies may not give him the extended trial he would like. Democrats who control the House unveiled formal charges Tuesday that accuse Trump...

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday rejected accusations of genocide committed against her country's Muslim Rohingya minority as "incomplete and misleading", and said the case should not be heard by the U.N.'s highest court. The Nobel Peace laureate, speaking during three days of...

Devastating bushfires that blanketed Australia’s largest city with hazardous smoke this week have heightened public anger and raised political pressure on the government to do more to battle climate change. While cooler weather eased fires and haze around Sydney on Wednesday, the previous...

Increasing tremors on a volcanic island in New Zealand on Wednesday heightened the risk of another massive eruption, preventing the recovery of bodies two days after an eruption engulfed dozens of tourists in steam and hot ash. Six people were killed in Monday’s explosion at White Island,...

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg accused political and business leaders of looking for loopholes to polish their image in the fight against climate change at a United Nations summit Wednesday. "It seems to have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes...

 India's ruling Hindu nationalists pushed for final parliamentary approval Wednesday for a law that critics say undermines the country's secular constitution by granting citizenship to non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries. Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the...

Turkey said Wednesday it would retaliate against any U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems, adding that with Britain it had agreed to speed up a joint fighter jet program to meet Turkish defense needs. U.S. lawmakers will vote - and likely pass - a defense bill later...

At least one person was killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded close to the largest US military base in Afghanistan Wednesday, damaging homes and a hospital under construction near Bagram Airfield, officials said. The attack -- which has not yet been claimed -- comes as Washington...

Six people, including a police officer, were killed in a gun battle Tuesday at a kosher supermarket in the U.S. state of New Jersey, said authorities. Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said the casualties included two suspected gunmen and three people believed to be civilians. "We...

Arms control, election security and national security are expected to be on the agenda on Tuesday when President Donald Trump meets Russia’s top diplomat, whose last White House visit was a public relations disaster for the U.S. leader. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to see...

Six migrants have died from exposure on the Greek-Turkish border in recent days, a Greek local coroner said Tuesday. Pavlos Pavlidis told reporters two women, believed to be of African origin, and six men aged between 18 and 30, were found dead between December 5 and December 8 in the Evros...

Finland's Sanna Marin, 34, was officially appointed as the country's prime minister on Tuesday, becoming the world's youngest sitting head of government. The former transport minister takes the helm of a coalition of five parties that will all be led by women, once the prime minister takes...

Kosovo prosecutors on Tuesday filed terrorism charges against an ethnic Albanian man who is accused of joining a terror group in Syria. Prosecutors said in a statement that the man, identified as V.Q., joined the Islamic State group in June 2014 together with another person who was...

A man with an illegal gun shot six people dead and wounded three more in a hospital in the eastern Czech Republic Tuesday, the prime minister and officials said. The apparent suspect later shot himself dead as police approached his car. Prime Minister Andrej Babis told Czech public...

Greece has lodged objections to the United Nations over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, a Greek government spokesman said Tuesday. Greece expelled the Libyan ambassador in response to the deal last week, infuriated at a...