U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened their second summit with handshakes and warm words about the prospects for their meeting.
Elaborately decorated vehicles are common across Pakistan. The "truck art" features political leaders, animals, or landscapes, and has even captured attention abroad, with galleries showcasing the work.
When soldiers without insignia on their green uniforms seized control of Crimea in 2014, top Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin repeatedly denied that they were Russian... until, a year later, Putin started boasting that actually they were.
A quarter of the seats in Afghanistan's parliament must be held by women. Those who run for office say it is still a man's world, as women face harassment on the campaign trail.
A major U.S. investor in Russia is potentially facing a long jail sentence after being arrested on financial fraud charges. It's the latest case to shock an already wary foreign investment community in Moscow.
For the first time in more than 40 years Russia has a steam-powered rail route.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States not discount the power of his country's weapons. In his annual state-of-the-nation address on February 20, Putin said that he wanted friendly relations with Washington but any serious threats to Russia's security would be reciprocated.
Pakistan sent fighter jets to greet the plane of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman ahead of a high-profile visit on February 17. After arrival in Islamabad, the prince said Saudi Arabia had signed investment agreements totaling more than $20 billion with Pakistan.
Thirty years ago on February 15, the last Soviet soldiers left Afghanistan after a disastrous operation to prop up a Marxist regime. It set off a chain of events still being felt today.
He went 12 rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, but now he's fighting poverty. Dutch boxing legend Rudie Lubbers is living in a freezing van in Bulgaria.
French citizens who joined Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have now resurfaced among the Yellow Vest protesters in Paris.
A Kyrgyz fashion designer invited women who have endured forced marriages or domestic abuse to appear in a fashion show inspired by great female figures in history. The event was part of a campaign meant to shed light on the illegal but persistent practice of bride kidnapping.
Russian police have detained a 31-year-old man after a painting was stolen from a Moscow gallery in broad daylight.
A 28-year-old Belarusian escort who said she had evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election appears to have rowed back from her claims, in her first interview since being released from detention in Moscow. Anastasia Vashukevich, also known as Nastya Rybka, gained global notoriety and spent nearly a year in a Thai prison after saying she had recordings of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska discussing the election on his yacht in 2016.
The Russian Army held a parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad, today's St. Petersburg. More than 2,500 troops and 100 vehicles took part in the January 27 event.
A Russian prosecutor has asked a court to sentence a Danish man to 6 1/2 years in prison for being a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the U.S.-based Christian denomination. Forty-six-year-old Dennis Christensen was detained in May 2017.
Opposition supporters clashed with the police in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, after parliamentary speaker Juan Guaido declared himself acting president in a January 23 rally.
Two commercial ships operating under the Tanzanian flag caught fire in the Kerch Strait off the coast of Crimea. At least 10 crew members were killed and 10 others were missing a day after the January 21 incident.
A Moscow court denied release on bail for Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia on an espionage charge. After the bail hearing on January 22, Whelan's attorney suggested his client was the victim of a setup.
At least 65 members of Afghan security forces were killed when Taliban insurgents attacked a military compound in Maidan Shahr, the capital of Afghanistan's Maidan Wardak province.
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