Tens of thousands of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters have gathered for a campaign rally at Moscow’s sprawling main sports complex. The crowd at the rally held two weeks before Russia’s presidential election filled the Luzhniki stadium, which has the capacity for more than...

WASHINGTON (AP)- The Secret Service says a man shot himself outside the White House, and medical personnel are on the scene. President Donald Trump is not at the White House - he's in Florida, but is set to return later Saturday. The agency says in a Twitter post that there are...

CHICAGO, United States: A university student who fatally shot his parents on his school campus in the U.S. state of Michigan was arrested without incident after an hours-long manhunt, officials said early Saturday. The episode had put the Central Michigan University campus into lockdown...

BEVERLY HILLS, United States: Viola Davis is good in a pinch. Last year's best supporting actress Oscar-winner was sipping champagne at the annual Women in Film pre-Oscar cocktail event Friday night when the organization's president, Cathy Schulman, herself an Oscar-winner for "Crash,"...

MANILA: More than 100 drug suspects have been killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police to rejoin his "war on drugs," an official said Saturday. Duterte was elected in 2016 on a promise to eradicate drugs, and launched an unprecedented campaign in which --...

(AFP) -  Insecurity in Mali "continues to rage" and is progressing toward the center of the country, according to an interim UN report. Members of Plateforme, an armed pro-government coalition, and the CMA rebel alliance, who were signatories to a 2015 peace deal, are seeing...

WASHINGTON (AP)- Citing mysterious "health attacks" in Havana, the United States said Friday it was making permanent its withdrawal of 60 percent of its diplomats from Cuba as investigations continue. Last October, the State Department ordered non-essential embassy personnel and the...

GENEVA (Reuters)- The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it had suspended its work in the Nigerian town of Rann and evacuated national and international staff after a deadly raid. Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 11 people including three aid workers...

WASHINGTON (AP)- White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is trying to explain his defense of a former aide accused of abusing two ex-wives. He says he made supportive comments before he knew of an accusation of physical abuse. Kelly told reporters Friday that the White House did not...

MOSCOW: It sounds like a thriller: nearly half a ton of cocaine was hidden in bags at the Russian Embassy's school in Buenos Aires before being loaded on a Russian government plane bound for Moscow. Yet that's exactly what happened in a recent sting run by Russia and Argentina to nab a...

A German security official says the immediate threat posed by a cyberattack on the government's secure computer network was averted soon after it was detected. Following a report by news agency dpa Wednesday, the government acknowledged its network had been infiltrated but downplayed...

BERLIN (AP)- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken with President Donald Trump about the situation in Syria and Russia's newly announced weapons systems. Merkel's office said Friday they spoke late Thursday, agreeing on the need for Syrian government forces and their Russian and...

OUAGADOUGOU (AFP)-  Heavy gunfire was heard Friday near the French embassy in Ouagadougou, the capital of the Sahel state of Burkina Faso, an AFP reporter said. Witnesses said five armed men got out of a car and opened fire on passersby before heading towards the embassy....

Russia has called off strategic talks with the U.S. set for this month after a Washington delegation snubbed a meeting on cybersecurity, Moscow's ambassador to the U.S. told TASS news agency Friday. Anatoly Antonov said Washington's last-minute pullout from talks in Geneva at the end of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The U.S. State Department accused Russia on Thursday of developing destabilizing nuclear weapons in violation of its treaty obligations after Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech unveiling a new array of nuclear weapons. State Department spokeswoman...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday that elements of NATO's anti-missile system deployed in Poland, Romania and Alaska were like an "umbrella with holes in it", Russian news agencies reported. "It turns out that the anti-missile umbrella has holes in it," Interfax cited...

Mobile phones are helping transform how relief agencies respond to humanitarian crises by enabling them to pin point where aid is needed most after hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters. At the same time, mobile apps that need just a few taps of the finger to make a donation are...

A suicide bomber killed four soldiers in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta and a gunman shot dead two policemen in a separate attack in the restive province on Wednesday, officials said. Quetta is the capital of Balochistan, a province bordering Iran and Afghanistan where police...

Murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak was probing alleged high-level political corruption linked to the Italian mafia, the news portal he worked for revealed Wednesday, as his killing sparked political fallout and fresh demonstrations in the EU state. A protest called by a conservative...

A cavernous bunker on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears roam, holds the key to 12,000 years of agriculture but also to food supplies for future generations with countries urged to deposit seed samples there. Welcome to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which turned 10...