China on Tuesday defended as "lawful" its detention of government critics ahead of this week's 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Dozens of activists have been detained or placed under house arrest in the lead-up to the June 3-4 ...

KYIV — Ukrainian government forces battled pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine not far from the Russian border Monday, as Russia called for the creation of "humanitarian corridors" to allow residents of the region to escape the violence. A spokesman ...

President Barack Obama embarks on a four-day trip to Europe this week. He leaves Washington Monday night for stops in Poland, Belgium and France. The U.S. leader's trip to Europe comes at a time when Russia has made threatening moves on Ukraine.

BANGKOK — A soldier smiles awkwardly as a woman hands him a flower and kisses his cheek. Farmers hold signs praising Thailand's military and a song plays out on radio stations urging love, peace and unity. This is a slice of the daily staple of ...

MOSCOW — The American confrontation with Russia over Ukraine has caused relations between Moscow and Washington to plummet to the lowest level in a generation. American school children singing the Star Spangled Banner in the ballroom of Spaso ...

Chinese authorities used a public rally in the violence-hit region of Xinjiang to sentence 55 people on charges including terrorism. The official Xinhua news agency said 7,000 locals and officials witnessed the mass sentencing Tuesday at a stadium in ...

President Barack Obama says 9,800 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after this year, but all could be withdrawn if Afghan leaders do not sign a joint security agreement. The president laid out his plans Tuesday for withdrawing U.S. troops from ...

KYIV — As the uprising in eastern Ukraine intensifies, the Russian government's involvement is becoming harder to deny, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine said Tuesday. Interview With US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt's remarks, in an exclusive ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that sanctions imposed on his country over its involvement in Ukraine were counterproductive and did not correspond to international law. Speaking to a group of Western journalists at the St. Petersburg ...

A Chinese court has found a former mining tycoon guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. The Xianning Intermediate People's Court in central Hubei province announced on Friday that Liu Han and his younger brother Liu Wei were guilty of organizing ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to postpone a referendum on secession set for Sunday. Speaking to reporters Wednesday after meeting in Moscow with the head of the Organization for Security and ...

Hundreds of people are feared dead after militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, setting fire to homes and businesses and shooting residents as they tried to escape. Local officials say suspected Boko Haram militants stormed the remote town of ...

At least three people have been killed after a pair of explosions rocked the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Saturday. Investigators say an explosive device detonated near a bus stop, leaving three people dead and several others wounded. The second blast ...

Workers around the world took to the streets Thursday to mark International Workers Day, also known as May Day, with marches and calls for higher pay and better working conditions. In Istanbul, Turkey, police used tear gas and water cannons against ...

State-run Chinese media say a terrorist attack on a railway station in western Xinjiang province has killed three people and wounded 79. Police say the attackers slashed people with knives and set off a bomb apparently between the station exit and a bus stop ...

Hundreds of pro-Russian separatists overran more Ukrainian government buildings near the Russian border Tuesday, seizing a prosecutor's office in Luhansk and attacking a police station with clubs and automatic weapons. Local authorities say police did ...

The United Nations' human rights chief says South Sudan's president, Salva Kiir, and rebel leader Riek Machar do not appear concerned about a possible famine in the country. Navi Pillay told reporters in Juba Wednesday that she was "appalled" after ...

Gunmen stormed Libya's parliament, firing shots, and causing lawmakers to suspend a vote for the country's new prime minister. Libyan officials say the armed men broke into the building housing Libya's General National Congress in Tripoli Tuesday and ...

Gunmen stormed Libya's parliament, firing shots, and causing lawmakers to suspend a vote for the country's new prime minister. Libyan officials say the armed men broke into the building housing Libya's General National Congress in Tripoli Tuesday and ...

... — Pro-Russian separatists have freed one of the eight European observers being detained in the eastern Ukraine city of Slaviansk on Sunday evening. The Swedish observer was escorted to an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ...