North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country’s latest launch of tactical guided missiles was a warning to the United States and South Korea over their joint military drills that began this week, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. Tuesday’s missile launch, the North’s fourth...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper did not have any particular exchange on the U.S.-proposed maritime coalition in the Middle East, Japan’s top government spokesman said on Wednesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the premier and...

Russian foreign ministry called new American sanctions against Venezuela “economic terror” in a statement Tuesday. "Such steps have no legal basis either in terms of international or domestic Venezuelan law,” said ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “Obviously, the White House is driven...

A suicide car bomber targeted a police station in western Kabul on Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion that wounded at least 95 people, Afghan officials said. Violence is surging across Afghanistan even as the US and the Taliban negotiate a peace deal ahead of elections planned for...

Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said a new move by U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze all the country’s assets in the United States was an effort to “formalize a criminal economic, financial, and commercial blockade that has already started.” In a statement, the ministry said it...

The Taliban on Tuesday denounced as a sham a presidential election due next month, saying their fighters would do everything they could to block it, while urging people to stay away from rallies that could be attacked. The warning came as both the United States and the Taliban reported...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he's absolutely convinced the U.S. will remain in the military alliance and it has made no preparations for an unlikely U.S. withdrawal because doing so would send a signal that it could happen. Stoltenberg made the comments in an interview while...

China warned Hong Kong protesters Tuesday that "those who play with fire will perish by it," adding the immense strength of the central government should not be underestimated. The comments represent one of the strongest-worded warnings yet from China's central government over protests in...

China’s Ministry of Commerce confirmed Monday that Chinese companies have stopped purchasing U.S. agricultural products after President Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs. The move comes after Trump threatened to slap 10% tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports from...

Four multilateral organizations joined officials from the African Union on Monday in Rwanda’s capital Kigali for the signing of a deal to formalize their commitment to jointly working toward addressing food and nutrition security on the continent. They comprised the World Bank, the UN Food...

The U.S. on Monday designated China a “currency manipulator”, according to a statement from the Treasury secretary. “Secretary [Steve] Mnuchin, under the auspices of President Trump, has today determined that China is a Currency Manipulator,” said the statement. The statement came amid...

The United States and the Taliban have resolved differences in peace talks over U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, as well as over insurgent guarantees on cutting ties with other extremist groups, a Taliban official said Tuesday. The development came during U.S.-Taliban talks over the...

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and barred transactions with its authorities, in Washington's latest move against President Nicolas Maduro. Trump took the step "in light of the continued usurpation of power by...

North Korea continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea Tuesday while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing military exercises. North Korea's fourth round of weapons launches in less than two...

U.S. intermediate-range missiles will not be deployed in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, after the United States revealed ambitions to site missiles in the Asia-Pacific region. Officials from both governments held talks in Sydney over the weekend that ended with a...

Russia said on Monday it would take measures to defend itself if the United States stationed missiles in Asia following the collapse of a landmark arms control treaty and that it expected Japan to deploy a new U.S. missile launch system. U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday...

Seoul and Washington began annual joint military exercises on Monday, defying warnings from Pyongyang that the war games will jeopardise nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea. The drills come after Pyongyang tested a series of short-range projectiles in recent days,...

Mexico considers the El Paso massacre a "terrorist" act and is looking at legal action to extradite the gunman, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Sunday. Seven of the 20 people killed in Saturday's shooting at a Walmart store were Mexican. Mexico's attorney general was considering...

Two people were killed in a blast targeting workers for an Afghan television station and at least seven police officers died in an insider attack by Taliban loyalists on Sunday as US and Taliban negotiators met for renewed peace talks in Doha. The deadly incidents came amid surging violence...

India on Monday scrapped the special provision granted to disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir.  Speaking in the parliament, India’s interior minister Amit Shah tabled a proposed legislation “Constitution Applicable to J&K 2019” which removed Article 370 of Indian Constitution,...