Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Finnish capital Monday for a historic summit with U.S. leader Donald Trump. Putin flew to Helsinki for the summit a day after he attended the World Cup final in Moscow, and a lengthy convoy of black vehicles awaited him on the tarmac.

Eritrea's longtime president arrived Saturday in Ethiopia for his first visit in 22 years amid a dramatic diplomatic thaw between the once-bitter rivals. Thousands have turned out in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, under tight security to welcome President Isaias Afwerki, whose visit...

An Afghan official said Saturday at least 11 soldiers were killed when their checkpoint came under an attack by Insurgents in western Farah province. Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for the provincial governor, says four other soldiers were wounded in the gun battle in Bala Buluk...

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted 12 Russian military intelligence officers on charges of hacking the computer networks of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the Justice Department said. The indictment, secured by Special Counsel...

A suicide bomber killed 128 people at an election rally in southwestern Pakistan in the second election-related attack on Friday, officials said, amid growing tensions over ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return ahead of the July 25 vote. The bombing was the most deadly attack in...

At least four people were killed and over 20 injured in a suspected suicide blast in an election rally in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police and local media reported. The bomber, who acted alone, rammed his explosive-laden motorbike into a vehicle minutes after the end of an election...

The death toll from torrential rains and floods in western Japan has topped 200, the Japan Times reported on Friday.  According to the newspaper, 204 people have been confirmed dead, with dozens still missing. Search and rescue operations with more than 70,000 rescuers...

Chancellor Angela Merkel made no new pledge on Thursday to increase defense spending of Germany, despite a stark warning by the U.S. President Donald Trump.  Speaking to reporters on the second and final day of the NATO summit in Brussels, Merkel stuck to her government’s earlier...

North Korea has offered to meet an American delegation on Sunday to discuss the repatriation of remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said North Korea's Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol had agreed in...

Britain's Prince Harry and music star Elton John are joining forces to launch a "global coalition" focused on treating HIV infections in men, the singer's AIDS charity said on Thursday. The Elton John AIDS Foundation did not go into details about the plan - but said all would be...

At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed in a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan after melting snow triggered a landslide, officials said Thursday. A mountain lake in Panjshir, a province known for its snowcapped peaks north of Kabul, overflowed and sent water...

U.S. President Donald Trump went on a fresh attack against NATO allies' spending and European trade practices in a closed-door session at a NATO summit on Thursday, two sources told Reuters. NATO leaders then asked non-NATO partner countries Ukraine and Georgia to leave the room for an...

U.S. President Donald Trump traded barbs with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a tense NATO summit Wednesday after he accused Berlin of being "captive" to Russia and demanded it immediately step up defense spending. The two-day meeting in Brussels is shaping up as the alliance's most...

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Germany of being a "captive" of Russia Wednesday as Western leaders gathered in Brussels for a NATO summit where Trump wants Europeans to pay up more for their own defense. In a startling public outburst, Trump told NATO Secretary-General Jens...

The Kremlin said Tuesday that former British foreign minister Boris Johnson's contribution to U.K.-Russia relations was very modest and that Moscow was now waiting for Britain to have a political epiphany. The poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the English city of...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan Monday, promised support for President Ashraf Ghani's bid to start peace talks with the Taliban and repeated the United States itself would be willing to join the talks. The visit, coming at the end of a tour of...

The remains of 35 Srebrenica genocide victims were placed on a truck laden with flowers in the Bosnian city of Visoko on Monday morning for their final journey to a cemetery. The victims will be buried in the village of Potocari, northwest of the city of Srebrenica, on Wednesday to mark...

Morocco’s Interior Ministry on Monday denied reports about extracting the bodies of 45 African migrants, who were reported to have drowned off the country’s coast.  Media reports earlier said that 45 migrants from Sub-Saharan African countries had drowned on Sunday after their boat...

Key South Korean government figures insisted Monday that the peninsula remains committed to peace and denuclearization, despite North Korean criticism of the United States over the weekend. Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. of making a "unilateral and gangster-like" demand...

Italy's hard-line interior minister says he wants to block foreign navy ships participating in European migrant rescue missions from docking in Italian ports. Matteo Salvini, who has already closed Italian ports to aid groups that rescue migrants, says in a Facebook post Sunday that he will...