BEIJING, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Friday for the 2022 Winter Olympics and a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, bringing with him a deal to increase natural gas supplies to China amid rising tension with the West. Putin told Xi that...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday welcomed an offer from visiting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to mediate in Kyiv's standoff with Moscow, and Erdogan promised to do whatever he could to end the crisis peacefully. In a move likely to grate with Moscow, Zelenskiy also...

Russia accused the West on Monday of “whipping up tensions” over Ukraine and said the U.S. had brought “pure Nazis” to power in Kyiv as the U.N. Security Council held a stormy and bellicose debate on Moscow's troop buildup near its southern neighbor. U.S. Ambassador Linda...

Isaac Herzog, Israel's largely ceremonial president, on Monday met with Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum during his first official visit to the Gulf Arab nation. Earlier on Monday Herzog visited Dubai's Expo 2020 world fair, which the Houthis had previously threatened to...