Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new version of state policy in nuclear deterrence Tuesday, that allows nuclear weapons to be used to repel a conventional arms attack if it threatens the homeland. Russia's nuclear policy has a defensive character, nukes are developed to deter...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government faced a rebellion from some of its own legislators Tuesday after it summoned Members of Parliament back to London and scrapped a remote-voting system used during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Like millions of other Britons, the...

World football's governing body FIFA has asked competition organizers to use "common sense" with players who show messages of protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed in police custody in the United States. The move, which marks a change from a previous strong...

Iyad Hallak, a 32-year-old Palestinian man with autism, passed Israeli police every day to reach his special needs school in Jerusalem's Old City. Last week a police officer who believed Hallak was armed shot him dead, leaving his family searching for answers and igniting widespread grief...