The Russian Embassy in Washington has a new address, at least symbolically. A one-block section of Wisconsin Avenue directly in front of the embassy was officially renamed Boris Nemtsov Plaza Tuesday, in what amounts to a D.C.-sponsored effort to troll the Russian government. A former...

WASHINGTON (AP)- President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman is maintaining his innocence as he faces charges he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and directed an international money-laundering conspiracy. Paul Manafort's formal plea of not guilty came Wednesday during a...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters)- Pope Francis is studying how to speed up the handling of allegations of sexual abuse by clergy, the Vatican said Wednesday, after a high-profile case in Chile put a new spotlight on the scandal. The topic was a main point of discussion in three days of meetings...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP)- The office of Nigeria's president says police and civil defense forces are ordered to defend all schools in "liberated areas" of the northeast to avoid further attacks on schools by Boko Haram extremists. Many in Africa's most populous country are outraged by the...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Wednesday unveiled a plan to open peace talks with the Taliban, including eventually recognizing them as a political party, days after the militants called for direct negotiations with the US. The apparent openness by both sides to some form of negotiations...

It is up to Britain to bring proposals to the table if it does not wish to trigger a backstop agreement that would fully align Northern Ireland with the rules of the EU to avoid a hard border, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Wednesday. "Now it is up to the UK to bring proposals...

The United Nations has launched a 24-hour helpline for U.N. staff to speak confidentially about sexual harassment at work, and to support victims and witnesses. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said people who call will be able to speak with impartial and trained people who can...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has adopted a new strategy for how it issues tens of millions of dollars in federal family-planning grants, giving preference to groups that stress abstinence and making it harder for Planned Parenthood to do business. Major reproductive health...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he believes Americans could be witnessing the “end of a two-party system.” “I don't think either party is answering people's deepest concerns and needs,” Kasich told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl in an interview that aired today on...

President Donald Trump on Monday ripped an armed sheriff’s deputy who did not thwart a tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, earlier this month. At a meeting with state governors. Trump said Scot Peterson "choked" when confronted with the mass slaughter. "Look, what he...

U.S. President Donald Trump will host French President Manuel Macro for a state visit on April 24, the White House said on Monday. "The president and first lady will welcome President and Mrs. Macron of France to the White House on April 24," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told...

The White House said on Monday it was up to China to decide whether to do away with presidential term limits after the country's ruling Communist Party made a proposal on Sunday that would allow President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely. "That's a decision for China to make...

South Sudan is likely to return to famine within months, with 155,000 people likely to be in a catastrophic situation between May and July, a survey by a technical working group including South Sudanese and U.N. officials said Monday. The survey said 5.3 million people, 48 percent of...

At least two people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday when security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo cracked down on church-led demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila, the United Nations said. Catholic and evangelical churchgoers across Congo had meant to take...

Some 50 nationalists on Sunday disrupted a news conference in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, which was organized by a group of Buddhist monks who have been pressing the government to take action against an anti-Muslim monk. The nationalists including 20 monks barged into an apartment...

At least two people were wounded as police fired live bullets and tear gas Sunday to break up a banned protest against DR Congo President Joseph Kabila in Kisangani, the country's third largest city, an AFP reporter said. Hundreds starting marching after mass at the city's cathedral but...

KABUL (AFP)- At least 23 people, mostly soldiers, were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a series of attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest assaults on the war-torn country's beleaguered security forces. In the biggest attack, Taliban...

YANGON (AFP)- Three bombs exploded early Saturday in the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state, a cauldron of ethnic tensions roiled by insurgencies and a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya, injuring one police officer, officials said. The three blasts at separate locations around...

MOGADISHU (Reuters)- The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital late on Friday has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18, a senior government official said on Saturday. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack near the...

NEW YORK (AP) - The National Rifle Association is facing a corporate backlash as companies take a closer look at their investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre. A handful of companies have ended discount programs with the NRA...