Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Dec 29 (AFP/APP): Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists in the war-torn east of the country are expected Sunday to swap dozens of prisoners in a frontline operation that
Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): Nine people died Friday when a passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, the government said. The Central Asian country's emergencies
Washington, Dec 21 (AFP/APP): President Donald Trump on Friday signed off on US sanctions against companies building a Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany that Congress fears will give the
United Nations, United States, Dec 18 (AFP/APP): Russia and China on Monday proposed easing sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea, in response to steps the North takes towards denuclearization. The proposal,
Washington, Dec 13 (AFP/APP): The United States tested a medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday, the second test in four months of an offensive missile that would have been banned by
Paris, Dec 9 (AFP/APP): Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris for summit talks Monday seen as a critical opportunity to take steps to end
Moscow, Dec 9 (AFP/APP): As Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky meet for the first time on Monday, many wonder what Moscow's long-term goal is in strife-torn
Washington, Dec 9 (AFP/APP): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will welcome his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday -- the Russian's first visit to Washington since a controversial 2017
Moscow, Dec 8 (AFP/APP): When Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky meet on Monday it will be an encounter between two very different presidents -- one an establishment strongman with years
AlBara, Syria, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): Syrian regime and Russian air strikes on Saturday killed 12 civilians, half of them children, in the country's last major opposition bastion, a Britain-based monitor