. . . MOSCOW – Soon after he was first appointed prime minister back in 1999, Vladimir Putin joked to an audience of top intelligence officers...
. BANGKOK – Foreign visitors from 19 countries and territories will be required to pay an increased fee for visas on arrival from next month onward....
BANGKOK – As demonstrated by terrorist attacks in Thailand’s popular tourist spots, terrorists find ways to thwart anti-terrorism defenses. However, for leaders in Thailand who seek...
. . RIO DE JANEIRO -Michael Phelps claimed his second gold medal in one night and the 21st of his career as the United States won...
. . BEIJING – In halting televised confessions and emotional courtroom testimony, Chinese lawyers and activists held in a government crackdown have voiced the same ominous...
. . BANGKOK – The Royal Thai Police have arrested a Russian man and an Uzbekistani woman who were wanted by the US Federal Bureau of...
. . NICE – World leaders are expressing dismay, sadness and solidarity with France over the attack carried out by a French-Tunisian man who drove a...
. . ISTANBUL – Turkish investigators pored over video footage and witness statements on Wednesday after three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers opened fire and blew...
. . KIEV, Ukraine – Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned and freed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko on Wednesday after holding her for nearly two years as...
 .  . BANGKOK – Two Deputy Prime Ministers from Thailand will travel to Russia, just weeks after a visit to Bangkok by the powerful head of...
. . BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for criminally convicted asylum seekers to be deported more quickly, responding with tough language to allegations of...
. . LONDON – Emerging markets suffered their biggest fall in four months on Monday as Chinese stocks slumped by 7 percent and deteriorating relations between...
MOSCOW – Viktor Sorochenko, an official with the Interstate Aviation Committee, said the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt over the weekend broke up in...
. . MOSCOW – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow on Tuesday evening to personally thank Russia’s Vladimir Putin for his military support, in a...
. . MOSCOW – The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had bombed seven targets in Syria in overnight air raids, including a command...
. . WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has to go but the timing of his departure...
. . DAMASCUS – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has blamed Europe’s refugee crisis on Western support for “terrorists”, as people fleeing his country’s civil war stream...
. . MOSCOW – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday called on world powers to help arm the Syrian army, describing it as the most...
NEW YORK – Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s U.N. ambassador, has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have established an international criminal tribunal to investigate...
STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s military reported Tuesday it is examining video that shipwreck hunters Ocean X diver, say shows the remains of a Russian submarine off the...