The agenda of Syrian peace talks due to begin in Geneva next week will be line with a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending the conflict and will not be changed, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday. De Mistura, speaking in Rome, said the U.N. resolution 2254 was...

France's scandal-hit presidential candidate Francois Fillon came under renewed attack from within his conservative camp Wednesday ahead of planned talks with former president Nicolas Sarkozy that Fillon hopes will restore party unity. Rebel conservative lawmaker Georges Fenech said his The...

India successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit Wednesday in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space agency. Scientists who were at the launch in the southern spaceport of Sriharikota burst into applause as the head of India's Space Research...

South Korea's special prosecutor's office said on Wednesday it had expanded charges against Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee to include hiding the proceeds of a criminal act before it decided to seek a warrant for his arrest. A Seoul court said on Tuesday it would hold a hearing on Thursday to...