U.S. and Cuban officials held diplomatic discussions in Washington, D.C. on Friday, and it has been described as an "open, honest, and sometimes challenging" meeting.
The United States and Cuba held a second round of diplomatic talks in Washington, D.C. on Friday in effort to normalize relations between the two countries after decades of a frozen relationship.
Cuban representatives made their way to Foggy Bottom on Friday for the second round of talks with their U.S. counterparts. The goal of the meeting is to pave the way for the openings of a U.S. Embassy in Havana and a Cuban Embassy in Washington.
The United States has no "monopoly" on nuclear weapons, the mouthpiece of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party warned on Friday as Pyongyang stepped up its rhetoric ahead of the annual joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.
Assailants in Bangladesh brutally murdered a prominent American blogger who championed liberal secular writing. Avijit Roy was hacked to death with machetes; he had allegedly received threats from Islamists.
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro recently ordered to arrest Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma, several opposition leaders and senior Venezuelan Air Force officers.
The missionary, part of the Free Methodist Church, was kidnapped Monday. Her captors demand $150,000 for her safe return but police is working to bring her back.
A German nurse has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing s to killing everal patients with overdoses of heart medication simply because he found it challenging trying to revive them.
Iranian forces attacked a replica of a U.S. aircraft carrier during nationally televised large-scale naval drills on Wednesday. More than a dozen speedboats were involved in what the Associated Press dubbed a "show of force" near the strategically important entrance of the Persian Gulf.
Priceless artifacts in city of Mosul are the newest victims of the brutal rule ISIS has imposed in Iraq's north. The terrorist group used sledgehammers and drills to smash several large statues, one of which dated to the 7th century B.C.
South Korea decriminalized adultery on Thursday after the country's Constitutional Court struck down a 62-year-old law that made marital infidelity punishable by up to two years in prison.
Arab ambassadors in the United States have rejected Benjamin Netanyahu's invitation to attend his March 3 speech before the U.S. Congress. The Israeli prime minister had charged Ron Dermer, the Jewish state's top diplomat in Washington, with reaching out to his Arab counterparts.
Walking tipsy along the streets of Spain’s Gothic Quarter might be a thing of the past as Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic plans to introduce breathalyzser tests for pedestrians.
Residents of Vernon, British Columbia witnessed a rare weather phenomena on Sunday, Feb. 22, which looked like a science fiction movie scene. An elongated cloud formation, known as a "hole punch cloud" or a "fall streak," appeared above the southern region of the province in the early morning. Residents posted pictures on social media that went viral and had people buzzing with speculation.
A measles outbreak in Europe sparked a step up in vaccination campaigns throughout the region after over 22,000 people were infected by the contagious disease since 2014. The World Health Organization in Europe called for more effective measles vaccination campaigns as the outbreak persists.
