Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius has been appointed as a short-term prime minister following the resignation of Gintautas Paluckas and his government.
Šadžius took up the post on Monday and will serve as…

Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius has been appointed as a short-term prime minister following the resignation of Gintautas Paluckas and his government.
Šadžius took up the post on Monday and will serve as…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and the Philippines announced an upgraded strategic partnership Tuesday that they said will deepen trade, defense and maritime cooperation between the two nations.
The countries announced the agreement after bilateral…


Dismembered human remains found last week in an abandoned house in Mexico’s violence-wracked Guanajuato state belong to a total of 32 victims, prosecutors said Monday.
The state prosecutor’s office said 15 people had been positively…

Evghenia Gutul, the head of Moldova’s autonomous Gagauzia region, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Aug. 5 over illegal funding of the now-banned pro-Russian Shor Party, Moldovan news outlet NewsMaker reported.
A Chisinau court ruled that…

Donald Trump’s latest White House renovation plans were the punchline on Monday’s “Tonight Show.”
Host Jimmy Fallon mocked the president’s penchant for upgrades with a spoof promo for “Extreme Makeover: White House Edition,” zeroing…

Following their first meeting in Geneva in 1985, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a historic joint statement stating their shared belief that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
The…

The governor of the Kamchatka region has called for the mayor of a closed military town to resign over what he described as an inadequate response to last week’s powerful earthquake off the coast of the far-flung peninsula.
A…

Moscow Slams US Demands on India as Unlawful Threats
The White House escalated tensions with India by threatening major tariff hikes over New Delhi’s continued imports of Russian oil, prompting backlash from Moscow and a firm…