Russia has become a world-class saver. So much gold has piled up in its central bank that Russia surpassed China last year to become the world’s fifth-largest holder of gold. The International Monetary Fund often has to badger developing nations to bulk up foreign currency reserves. Russia...

A demonstration was held outside the Chinese embassy in London on Tuesday against China’s human rights violations against the Turkic Uighur minority in the country’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, also referred to as East Turkestan.  The protest was organized by the International...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that his second summit with North Korea will take place later this month in Vietnam as he also reported headway in talks with the Taliban. Delivering his annual State of the Union address to Congress after being politically battered by a...

Last summer, Vitaliy Ustymenko was brutally attacked by two men in broad daylight in an assault he believes was linked to his work as an anti-corruption activist in Ukraine. The number of such assaults on activists has soared, analysts say, as Ukraine struggles to rein in graft five years...