Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has agreed to hand over power to an elected president, and the opposition will be allowed to take part in the Cabinet that will oversee elections, the country's new deputy prime minister said on Monday. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow with...

High-level U.S.-Russian talks on how to defuse Venezuela’s crisis ended on Tuesday with the two sides still at odds over the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro. Russia has said Maduro remains the country’s only legitimate leader whereas the United States and many other Western...

The United Nations will present a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida following talks with the government and Huthi rebels, a UN envoy said Tuesday. The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire deal reached in Sweden that...

The U.S. on Tuesday blacklisted Venezuela's state-owned gold mining company CVG Compania General de Mineria de Venezuela CA, or Minerven, in its latest effort to clamp down on the country's gold trade. Minerven President Adrian Antonio Perdomo Mata was also designated in a pair of actions...