The United States, Russia and Jordan have reached a ceasefire and "de-escalation agreement" in southwestern Syria, one of the combat zones in a six-year-old civil war, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday. The ceasefire will go into effect on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister...

The United States, Japan and South Korea on Friday agreed to push for a quick U.N. Security Council resolution to apply new sanctions on North Korea after its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this week. Meeting at the G20 summit in Germany, U.S. President Donald...

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto underscored on Friday the importance of modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement to bring "tangible benefits" to Mexico, the United States and Canada. Trump and Pena Nieto held a bilateral meeting at the...

The U.N.'s migration agency said Friday it has suspended operations in two camps near the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul that host nearly 80,000 displaced Iraqis due to security concerns. The International Organization for Migration announced the temporary suspensions at the Qayara air strip...

Pakistan's oil and gas regulator on Friday ordered a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to pay about 257 million rupees ($2.4 million) in damages and compensation for a tanker explosion that killed more than 200 people. The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has held Shell Pakistan Ltd...

UNESCO Friday declared the Old City of Hebron a protected heritage site in a secret ballot, an issue which has triggered a new Israeli-Palestinian spat at the international body. The U.N.'s cultural arm voted 12 to three - with six abstentions - to give heritage status to Hebron in the...

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish police have detained 29 suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants in raids in Istanbul. Anadolu Agency said 22 of the militants detained Friday were foreign nationals. It didn't provide details on their nationalities. The report says they were caught in...

Leaders from the world's top economies prepared for tough talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate change and trade on Friday as a Group of 20 summit got underway in Germany amid the threat of violent protests. The meeting in the port city of Hamburg comes at a time of major shifts...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to size each other up in person for the first time on Friday in what promises to be the most highly anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Trump has said he wants to find ways to work with Putin, a goal...

France and Russia agreed on Thursday that fighting terrorism in Syria was their common objective, but pointedly avoided airing their differences over the sensitive issue of chemical weapons. France appears to be broadly aligning its foreign policy with the U.S. priorities of tackling...

Russia has asked the United States for more information after comments by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Washington was ready to discuss with Moscow no-fly zones in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday. "We have asked (for information). We haven't yet...

( The Guardian )- The top ethics watchdog in the federal government announced his resignation on Thursday, taking a parting shot at Donald Trump as he did so. Walter Shaub, head of the independent Office of Government Ethics (OGE), released a statement in which he said he would step down in...

U.N. diplomats say Russia has blocked U.N. Security Council approval of a statement that would strongly condemn North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile and renew a pledge to take "further significant measures." The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sought Thursday to steer rival sides in Cyprus peace talks to agreement on a broad range of issues that are holding back a deal to reunify the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation. Appearing for the second time at the peace talks taking place...

At least 123 members of Venezuela's armed forces have been detained since anti-government unrest began in April on charges ranging from treason and rebellion to theft and desertion, according to military documents seen by Reuters. The list of detainees, which includes officers as well as...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked sanctions against his country and called for an end to trade protectionism, in an editorial published in Germany Thursday ahead of the G20 summit. Sanctions against Russia "are not just short-sighted but go against the principles of the G20 for...

South Korean warplanes and navy ships have fired a barrage of missiles into the waters during one-day drills aimed at boosting a readiness against possible North Korean aggression. Thursday's drills off the east coast were previously scheduled but they occurred two days after North Korea...

The United States is prepared to discuss with Russia joint efforts to stabilize war-torn Syria, including no-fly zones, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday. He added the United States wanted to discuss with Russia the use of on-the-ground ceasefire observers and the...

The United States cautioned on Wednesday it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea's nuclear missile program but said it preferred global diplomatic action against Pyongyang for defying world powers by test launching a ballistic missile that could hit Alaska. U.S. Ambassador...

Russia told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that it opposed new sanctions against North Korea and that a military option was "inadmissible." "All must acknowledge that sanctions will not resolve the issue," Russian Deputy Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told an emergency council session,...