Chinese and United States negotiators have made "important progress" in their latest round of trade talks, according China's state media, as US President Donald Trump said he would soon meet his Chinese counterpart to try to

Zonguldak, Turkey - The Turkish coal-mining town of Zonguldak seems an unlikely place to meet a man who says he's a Chinese spy, but it's here where Yusuf Amat arranged to meet us. Sitting

The Mongolian parliament this week voted to oust House Speaker Miyegombyn Enkhbold, in an unprecedented move capping a tumultuous two months in the country's politics involving multiple corruption scandals, protests and party infighting. At

On a foggy Thursday morning on February 1, 1979, a chartered Air France flight from Paris roared through Mehrabad airport near central Tehran, carrying Iran's most revered spiritual figure. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an outspoken

DUBAI: Pope Francis said he was looking to write a new page in the history of relations between religions with his visit to the UAE from Sunday. “I am happy ... to write on

HAJJIN, Syria: In the former militant bastion of Hajjin in eastern Syria, 50-year-old Khaled Abed shouts at the top of his lungs amid the rubble, asking why he cannot go home. The US-backed Syrian

LONDON: The United Nation's Yemen envoy warned Thursday that he was deeply concerened about "recent hostilities" in Yemen where a precarious regional truce is under increasing pressure. Martin Griffiths did not specify which hostilities, but the

The US special envoy for North Korea laid out an extensive list of demands for North Korean denuclearisation on Thursday that was likely to anger Pyongyang, even as President Donald Trump said the date

Guatemala City - Beatriz Gonzalez was standing a few feet away from the ashes of a ceremonial fire on Thursday. Thirty-nine years ago, the fire was in the Spanish Embassy, located at the same Guatemala

Ugandan authorities have seized 750 pieces of ivory and thousands of pangolin scales being smuggled from neighboring South Sudan in one of the largest seizures of wildlife contraband in the East African country. The ivory