MOSCOW: Seven candidates are lined up against Vladimir Putin in a Russian presidential election next month that he is all but guaranteed to win, extending his Kremlin term to 2024 with a fourth term in office. His competitors include a former reality TV star and a director of a fruit...

Dozens of world leaders, top defense officials and diplomats were gathering Friday in southern Germany for an influential security conference, amid growing strains between the U.S. and other NATO nations and Russia over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of Defense James...

MOSCOW- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday he denies Russia was responsible for the 'NotPetya' cyber-attack last year, after the White House Thursday joined the British government in accusing Moscow of the attack. In response to a question about the attack, he said he...

A Kenyan official says suspected al-Shabab extremists have killed three teachers in an overnight attack in the northeastern county of Wajir. North Eastern regional coordinator Mohammad Saleh says an unknown number of gunmen attacked Qarsa primary school and targeted non-Muslim teachers....

Uganda said Thursday it was widening a probe of government officials who allegedly stole aid intended for refugees to include U.N. staff, amid concern the scandal may hold up donor cash needed for the country's surging refugee population. Allegations that officials may have inflated...

HYDERABAD, India: Iran's president said Thursday that his country was ready to help promote dialogue as a way to end bloodshed in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Hassan Rouhani made the comments to a group of Muslim religious scholars in the in southern Indian city of...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Thursday tendered his resignation amid anti-government demonstrations. Speaking to local media on Thursday, Desalegn said he is also resigning as the chairman of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic party. In a...

VATICAN CITY (AP)-  The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis meets frequently with victims of sexual abuse, seeking to defuse a mounting scandal over his unbridled support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse. Spokesman Greg Burke said...

WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump will make a national address at 11 a.m. Thursday, a White House spokeswoman said, about a massacre at a Florida high school Wednesday in which a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people in one of the country's deadliest school shootings. Earlier on...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Six African nations are among the 10 worst in the world to be a child in a war zone, a new report says. The Save the Children report released Thursday looks at factors including attacks on schools, child soldier recruitment, sexual violations, killings and lack...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of civilians killed and wounded in the war in Afghanistan declined last year, but the number of deaths from airstrikes was on the rise, according to a new United Nations report released on Thursday. The total number of civilian casualties decreased...

MOSCOW: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that Internet providers in Russia had started blocking access to his website on the orders of the country's communications watchdog. Navalny said on social media that Roscomnadzor, the regulator, had said last week it would block...

Two Myanmar journalists facing up to 14 years in prison if convicted of receiving government secrets appeared for their latest court hearing in Yangon Wednesday, one day after it was announced that they had won a major press freedom award. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12...

In a small medieval Slovak town, couples are getting ready on Valentine’s Day to make a “deposit” about their romance in a place dedicated to love stories. The “Love Bank” is the main attraction of an exhibition commemorating the world’s longest love poem, “Marina” by Slovak poet Andrej...

 The U.S. director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, said Tuesday time is running out for the United States to act on the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear programs. "Decision time is becoming ever closer in terms of how we respond to this," Coats said during a hearing...

At least 46 people, including 19 women and 27 children have been freed from Boko Haram captivity after troops destroyed another hideout of the proscribed armed group in northeastern Borno state, the Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday. “[Troops] dislodged Boko Haram terrorists...

MOSCOW- Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed North Korea by phone Monday, but the discussion was not in-depth, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. He also said that Trump offered U.S. help to Russia in investigating a fatal plane crash on Sunday...

 WASHINGTON (AFP) - The citizenship hopes of 1.8 million immigrants brought to the United States as children hung in the balance Monday as Congress launched debate on the hot-button issue, with President Donald Trump eager to "make a deal" on new legislation. In offering a path to...

A British warship will sail from Australia through the disputed South China Sea next month to assert freedom of navigation rights, a senior official said Tuesday in a move likely to irk Beijing. China claims nearly all of the resource-rich waterway and has been turning reefs and islets...

It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can foot the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else. And next year it...