The top US military officer has pressed Afghanistan's Taliban to reduce violence in a rare meeting as outgoing President Donald Trump seeks to hasten the end of the nearly 20-year war. General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met separately with Taliban...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged world's rich nations to make stronger contributions to make coronavirus vaccine available to everyone on the planet. "It is not with vaccine nationalism that we are going to defeat the COVID, it is with international cooperation," he...

An annual Gulf Arab summit, usually held in December, will be hosted by Saudi Arabia on Jan. 5, Kuwait's foreign minister said on Thursday in remarks published on the ministry website. Sources familiar with the matter had told Reuters that the gathering would be pushed to next month while...

A city court in Moscow fined Google for 3 million rubles ($41,000) on Thursday for showing extremist, pornographic, and suicidal content in search results in Russia. This is the biggest penalty Google has ever faced in Russia. The amount was increased because, despite the previous warnings,...