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High-stakes talks between oil-producing countries in Qatar aimed at trying to boost global oil prices by capping production have ended without agreement.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has asked Russia’s foreign minister for help in getting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop violating the cease-fire there.
Rescue efforts were under way in southwestern Japan on April 16 after two powerful earthquakes hit the area, killing at least 39 people.
Thousands protested peacefully in the Macedonian capital for a fourth night as parliament called for snap parliamentary elections in a bid to end a deepening political crisis linked to a wiretapping scandal.
A Russian judge who agreed to accept a lawsuit filed against Russian President Vladimir Putin has abruptly resigned.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has sought to deflect implicit criticism from Russia's president after Vladimir Putin suggested some regional leaders in Russia were "hunt[ing] for enemies of the nation among opposition figures."
Russia has denounced the U.S. State Department's latest human rights report, which harshly criticizes the Kremlin's expansionism in Ukraine and record on civil liberties.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he will visit an American aircraft carrier in the disputed South China Sea on April 15, a move almost certain to further anger China, which denounced U.S.-Philippine military cooperation in the region.
The United States and South Korea say North Korea appears to have failed in an attempt to launch a missile on April 15, likely to mark the birthday of its founding president.
Japanese officials say least nine people were killed after a powerful earthquake struck the south of the country on April 14, sparking fires and injuring hundreds of others as rescue workers searched through the night for people possibly trapped in rubble.
Antigovernment protests continued for the third consecutive night in Macedonia's capital on April 14 following President Gjorge Ivanov's decision this week to halt prosecutions of officials linked to a wiretapping scandal.
The White House says U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged new Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman to quickly implement reforms in a telephone call after Ukraine's parliament approved the new premier on April 14.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has called on Iran to temporarily halt executions for drug offenses until parliament debates a new law to end the mandatory death penalty for such crimes.
Ukraine's parliament has approved Volodymyr Hroysman as prime minister in the biggest government shake-up since a 2014 uprising brought in a pro-Western leadership.
A new U.S. State Department report says Afghanistan's most pressing human rights problems stem from "widespread violence," including indiscriminate attacks on civilians by armed insurgent groups and "torture and abuse of detainees by government forces."
The U.S. State Department says in a new report that the world faces a "global governance crisis" as both governments and nonstate actors increasingly infringe on human rights.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has asked the country's lead domestic spy agency to launch an investigation after state television accused him of serving as a secret operative for the West.
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