MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to 5 1/2…
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to 5 1/2…

Even before Donald Trump’s tariff turmoil, it was hard to discern a clear China strategy. With decisions depending largely on presidential whim, his foreign-policy advisers seemed to have split into warring tribes. To use a shorthand common in…

The European Union and Britain on Tuesday pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to ease suffering in Sudan, on the second anniversary of the country’s civil war.
Tens of thousands of people have died, 14 million people have been displaced…

The war in Ukraine looks set to escalate again. Sunday’s deadly Russian rocket attack on the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine has made it more challenging than ever to find common ground between the two sides, to form the basis of a ceasefire…
The IDF thwarted an attempt to smuggle weapons from Egypt into Israel, the military stated on Tuesday.
IDF surveillance detected a drone attempting to smuggle weapons from Egypt into Israeli territory. The drone was downed by…

Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has announced Iran must totally eliminate its nuclear programme, seeming to reverse the policy he had articulated on Fox News only 12 hours earlier that would have allowed Iran to enrich uranium at a…

The Jordanian security services said Tuesday that they had arrested 16 people they accused of plotting threats to national security involving weapons, explosives and plans to manufacture drones and train combatants, both domestically and abroad.
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A recent medical mission from Germany likely saved Mohammed Qanbat’s life.
The 55-year-old from the Syrian city of Hama had open-heart surgery in April. The procedure rarely undertaken in Syria these days because the health system deteriorated…