The White House said Thursday that “a small peacekeeping group of about 200” U.S. troops will stay in Syria beyond the planned withdrawal of American forces this spring.

More from WPR: What the Quagmires in Afghanistan and Syria Reveal About America’s Strategic Culture

When President Trump meets North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, next week in Vietnam, his advisers hope to hammer out a road map for ridding the reclusive state of its nuclear weapons. But Trump appears more tantalized, at least for now, by declaring an end to seven decades of war on the Korean Peninsula.

U.S. and Chinese negotiators are trying to resolve a long-running dispute between semiconductor rivals Micron Technology and Fujian Jinhua as part of a larger trade agreement between the world’s two largest economies, according to people briefed on the negotiations.

More from WPR: A U.S.-China Trade Deal Is Coming, but How Big Will It Be?

A Moscow court on Friday extended by three months the custody of Paul Whelan, an American citizen charged with espionage, meaning he will stay behind bars through late May.

Russian and U.S. special representatives for Afghan reconciliation met Friday in the Turkish capital Ankara.

More from WPR: How Serious Is a Renewed Push for Peace Talks in Afghanistan?

The five heavily armed Americans arrested in Haiti earlier this week are back on their home soil and won’t be facing any criminal charges in the United States—a decision already causing outrage among some Haitian leaders.

The U.S. may be the world’s leading power, but its foreign policy has become contorted, and essentially overtaken, by the toxic court politics of Trump.

He has put forward a foreign policy vision that pits democratic peoples everywhere against illiberalism at home and abroad.

At the U.S.-North Korea summit, the host may be the biggest winner.

As the deadline approaches for the withdrawal of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria, America’s closest European allies have turned down a Trump administration request to fill the gap with their own troops, according to U.S. and foreign officials.

More from WPR: The Many Self-Delusions Behind the Breakup in Trans-Atlantic Relations

The American ambassador to Germany plans to lead what his embassy said Wednesday was a new and “specific push” to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.

President Trump said Wednesday the United States would not re-admit an American-born woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State and now wants to come home.

More from WPR: Trump Is Wrong, ISIS Isn’t Defeated. But It Poses a Limited Threat

A group of Americans arrested in Haiti driving around Port-au-Prince with an arsenal of weapons arrived back in the United States Wednesday night after failing to show up for their first court appearance before the Haitian justice system.

The United States and three Central American nations on Wednesday announced an effort to combat trafficking of people to the U.S.-Mexico border, days after U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, citing large-scale unlawful immigration.

More from WPR: What Life Is Really Like on Mexico’s Migrant Trail

The United States said on Thursday that Russia had failed to grant its diplomats access to detained U.S. national Michael Calvey a week after the founder of Baring Vostok private equity group was detained in Moscow.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned that the United States would not be able to partner with or share information with countries that adopt Huawei systems, citing security concerns.

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Afghan Taliban leaders said on Thursday that their new political chief will not be attending peace talks with U.S. envoys due to take place in Qatar next week.

More from WPR: How Serious Is a Renewed Push for Peace Talks in Afghanistan?

How can Congress avoid getting sidelined on foreign policy? There’s only one right answer.

Is the Trump administration deliberately searching for a casus belli for direct military confrontation with Iran? After the Trump administration’s strange Warsaw meeting on the Middle East and its less than impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference, key European officials were left scratching their heads.

More from WPR: Animosity Between Iran and Europe Could Derail Efforts to Save the Nuclear Deal

Washington must undo the damage it has created and work to support democracy.

More from WPR: Kabila Is Finally Departing, but Congo’s Future Is as Uncertain as Ever

U.S. prosecutors announced last week that a former Air Force intelligence specialist defected to Iran, and charged her with espionage for allegedly sharing sensitive national security information with the Tehran regime. The revelation has reopened an uncomfortable conversation about treason. It is also raising questions about the murky world of Americans who cooperate with the Iranian regime.

U.S. and North Korean special envoys are to meet in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, to make final preparations for a second summit next week between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

U.S. efforts to transfer control of Citgo Petroleum Corp. to Venezuela’s opposition leaders have hit a snag, potentially undermining Washington’s appetite to protect the Houston-based company from creditors, according to people familiar with the matter.

More from WPR: Reviving Venezuela’s Oil Industry Is Easier Said Than Done

A Thai court ruled Wednesday that a Russian man who allegedly was part of a gang that stole millions of dollars online from bank accounts can be extradited to the United States to stand trial, but the suspect could end up in Russia anyway.

Heightened tensions in Venezuela left one woman dead and a dozen injured near the border with Brazil on Friday, marking the first deadly clash related to the opposition’s plan to deliver humanitarian aid that President Nicolas Maduro has vowed not to accept.

More from WPR: Could Trump, of All People, Bring Down Maduro and the Chavista Regime?

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Thursday he would resume dialogue with opposition leaders who are calling for early elections after nearly a year grappling with one of the country’s worst crises since a civil war four decades ago.

More from WPR: Nicaragua’s Crisis Shows No Signs of Abating

Mexico’s Senate on Thursday approved President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s plan to create a new national guard, a central plank of the government’s strategy to subdue gang violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the past decade.

More from WPR: AMLO Promised a New Approach to Mexico’s Security Crisis. Is He Delivering?

The five heavily armed Americans arrested in Haiti earlier this week are back on their home soil and won’t be facing any criminal charges in the United States—a decision already causing outrage among some Haitian leaders.

For the first time since the 1959 Revolution, Cuban voters on Sunday may express significant dissent, when they go to the polls to ratify a new constitution that institutes modest economic changes while maintaining the one-party system.

More from WPR: Sixty Years After the Revolution, Is a ‘New Cuba’ Emerging?

The International Monetary Fund and other development banks will bail out Ecuador as the South American nation struggles with weak economic growth and deficits.

Now that even Japan and Switzerland—two countries that rarely pick a fight with anybody—have joined the nearly 50 nations that recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president, an overwhelming majority of world democracies are supporting the restoration of democracy in Venezuela. The big exception is Mexico. That’s unfortunate, and should draw greater international criticism.

More from WPR: Venezuela’s New Opposition Leader Launches a Bold Gambit to Unseat Maduro

I had thought that by escaping from the Chinese regime, I had guaranteed my boy a safe and beautiful environment in Canada, with all the opportunities he could want and need. Yet, last week at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, when I made a presentation about the dire situation of our people, I realized that the shadow of the nightmare we experienced so many years ago had followed me and my son to our adopted country.

A group of Americans arrested in Haiti driving around Port-au-Prince with an arsenal of weapons arrived back in the United States Wednesday night after failing to show up for their first court appearance before the Haitian justice system.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido plans to head to the Colombian border in a convoy of vehicles on Thursday to receive humanitarian aid for his crisis-stricken nation, despite the objection of increasingly isolated President Nicolas Maduro.

More from WPR: International Intrigue Over Venezuela’s Gold Could Help Decide Maduro’s Fate

A community activist fighting against a plan to build a gas pipeline through his central Mexico town was killed Wednesday, three days before a scheduled public referendum on the energy generation project.

The United States and three Central American nations on Wednesday announced an effort to combat trafficking of people to the U.S.-Mexico border, days after U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, citing large-scale unlawful immigration.

More from WPR: What Life Is Really Like on Mexico’s Migrant Trail

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong and President of Argentina Mauricio Macri witnessed the signing of some cooperation documents between Vietnamese and Argentine ministries and agencies following their talks in Hanoi on Feb. 20.

Mexican federal auditors say they have found $167 million in mismanagement and questionable expenses at a now-cancelled project to build a new Mexico City airport.

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Jaun Guaido is the antithesis of the central figures of chavismo. He’s not a grandiloquent speaker, instead focusing on the day-to-day issues facing the Venezuelan people, and he has successfully established a sort of mantra with three objectives that must be pursued with urgency: the cessation of an illegitimate regime, a transitional government and free elections.

More from WPR: Venezuela’s New Opposition Leader Launches a Bold Gambit to Unseat Maduro

Argentine president Mauricio Macri started an official State visit to Vietnam on Wednesday to deepen the bilateral strategic partnership.

U.S. efforts to transfer control of Citgo Petroleum Corp. to Venezuela’s opposition leaders have hit a snag, potentially undermining Washington’s appetite to protect the Houston-based company from creditors, according to people familiar with the matter.

More from WPR: Reviving Venezuela’s Oil Industry Is Easier Said Than Done

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro delivered the new project for the country’s social security reform in Congress on Wednesday morning.

More from WPR: Bolsonaro Could Realize His Critics’ Worst Fears—and His Supporters’ High Hopes

British lawmaker Ian Austin resigned from the opposition Labour Party on Friday, the ninth person to do so this week, saying it was “broken” and had been taken over by the “hard left.”

More from WPR: Why Britain’s Labour Party Is Locked Into a Broken Strategy on Brexit

A Moscow court on Friday extended by three months the custody of Paul Whelan, an American citizen charged with espionage, meaning he will stay behind bars through late May.

Dublin has published a mammoth package of emergency laws to confront a no-deal Brexit, warning that failure in the talks would lead to a “lose, lose, lose” scenario for Britain, the EU and Ireland.

More from WPR: Why Negotiating Brexit Is So Hard

Thousands of Slovaks rallied to mark the first anniversary of the killing of an investigative reporter and his fiancee on Thursday and to protest what they see as a lack of government action against the sleaze he wrote about.

More from WPR: Why Press Freedom in Slovakia Is More Complicated Than It Looks

Thousands of protesters supporting Albania’s opposition surrounded the parliament building Thursday and demanded the government step down, claiming it’s corrupt and has links to organized crime.

Greek authorities are scrambling to house almost 4,000 people crammed into an overflowing migrant camp in Samos, as aid groups warn of a “humanitarian disaster” on one of Europe’s forgotten frontlines.

French troops fighting Islamist militants in Mali have killed a one of the Sahel region’s leading jihadists, France’s defense minister said on Friday.

In the tiny nation’s parliamentary elections, voters will choose representatives. They will also choose a future aligned with Europe or one aligned with Russia.

If there remained any doubt that Facebook’s business practices intentionally compromise users’ privacy and recklessly undermine democratic norms, it was put to rest on Monday, when the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British House of Commons issued a hundred-and-eight-page report, incongruously titled “Disinformation and ‘fake news.’”

The United States said on Thursday that Russia had failed to grant its diplomats access to detained U.S. national Michael Calvey a week after the founder of Baring Vostok private equity group was detained in Moscow.

German police are searching 16 homes of alleged Islamic extremists in central and western Germany.

The Trump administration has spent a year trying to convince America’s allies in Europe that the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is a grave threat to their national security and should not be allowed any role in developing new wireless networks.

Portugal’s minority Socialist government of Prime Minister Antonio Costa on Wednesday survived an opposition motion of no confidence lodged over a recent wave of public sector strikes.

Britain’s talk of deploying a warship in the Pacific has complicated its relationship with China, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Thursday.

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The French government will adopt an international organization’s definition of anti-Semitism and propose a law to reduce hate speech from being circulated online, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday.

Is the Trump administration deliberately searching for a casus belli for direct military confrontation with Iran? After the Trump administration’s strange Warsaw meeting on the Middle East and its less than impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference, key European officials were left scratching their heads.

More from WPR: Animosity Between Iran and Europe Could Derail Efforts to Save the Nuclear Deal

Britain stripped a teenager who traveled to join Islamic State of her citizenship on security grounds, triggering a row over the ramifications of leaving a 19-year-old mother with a jihadist fighter’s child to fend for herself in a war zone.

French senators urged an investigation into three top aides to President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, saying there was reason to believe they had withheld information from an official inquiry into a scandal involving Macron’s former bodyguard.

More from WPR: Will a Scandal and the Yellow Vest Crackdown Trip Up France’s Macron?

The European Commission is greatly concerned about the latest changes to Romanian judicial legislation through a government emergency decree and will ask Bucharest to explain itself, the Commission said on Wednesday.

More from WPR: Invoking Trump-Like Rhetoric, Romania’s Leaders Chip Away at Independent Institutions

India plans to buy 21 MiG-29 jet fighters and possibly more from Russia, the RIA news agency cited the deputy director of Russia’s federal service for military-technical cooperation as saying on Wednesday.

A Kenyan court Friday postponed a ruling on whether to decriminalize same sex relationships, disappointing many in the country’s LGBT community.

More from WPR: A Kenyan Director Made History at Cannes, but Kenyans Still Can’t Watch Her Film

Displaced people in northeast Nigeria have told the BBC they were transported through a dangerous conflict zone ahead of the country’s elections in an operation agreed by the main political parties.

More from WPR: He Fell Short on His Promises, but Nigeria’s Buhari Can Still Expect a Second Term

French troops fighting Islamist militants in Mali have killed a one of the Sahel region’s leading jihadists, France’s defense minister said on Friday.

Israel opened its first embassy in Rwanda on Friday, offering support to the East Africa nation from health to education and agriculture, as well as communication technology including cybersecurity.

An official in the central Nigerian state of Benue says 16 people have been killed in an attack apparently staged by herdsmen.

More from WPR: Herders vs. Farmers: Nigeria’s Other Security Crisis

An international rights group on Thursday accused Congolese police of summarily executing at least 27 people, some of whom were bound, strangled and mutilated in a crackdown on gangs in the capital Kinshasa last year.

A Sudanese opposition party says more than 10 opposition leaders have been arrested ahead of the latest day of protests urging President Omar al-Bashir to resign.

More from WPR: Can Bashir, a Brutal Survivor, Ride Out the Growing Wave of Protests in Sudan?

Twenty-eight-year-old Phelix Kasanda is one of thousands of gay Kenyans hoping judges will strike down a colonial-era law punishing consensual same-sex relationships by 14 years in jail. Same-sex relationships are illegal in more than 70 countries, almost half of them in Africa, where homosexuality is broadly taboo and persecution is rife.

More from WPR: A Kenyan Director Made History at Cannes, but Kenyans Still Can’t Watch Her Film

South Sudan’s rival armed groups are forcefully recruiting civilians, including child soldiers, violating a fragile peace deal signed five months ago.

More from WPR: Is Time Already Running Out for South Sudan’s New Peace Deal?

An official in Burundi says the withdrawal of 1,000 Burundian soldiers from the African Union regional force in Somalia has begun.

Despite a peace agreement, mass atrocities continue in South Sudan, driven partly by fights over control of oil, and foreign oil companies may be complicit in war crimes, a United Nations panel said on Wednesday.

New leader has freed political prisoners and plans economic opening. But will liberalization spin out of control?

More from WPR: In a Bold Experiment, Ethiopia’s Abiy Aims to Put Citizenship Over Ethnicity

Washington must undo the damage it has created and work to support democracy.

More from WPR: Kabila Is Finally Departing, but Congo’s Future Is as Uncertain as Ever

Zimbabwe, without its own currency for a decade, took steps to address its worsening economic crisis by allowing its surrogate currency, bond notes, and electronic funds to float freely against other major currencies, abandoning an official but artificial parity with the dollar.

More from WPR: The Mask Slips to Reveal the Grim Reality of Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe

The White House said Thursday that “a small peacekeeping group of about 200” U.S. troops will stay in Syria beyond the planned withdrawal of American forces this spring.

More from WPR: What the Quagmires in Afghanistan and Syria Reveal About America’s Strategic Culture

Saudi Arabia on Friday signed a wide-ranging set of agreements on energy and trade with China, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accelerated efforts to court an economic power that offers a potential counterweight to the U.S.

The U.S.’s main ally in the fight against Islamic State welcomed President Trump’s decision to leave U.S. troops in Syria, a change in American plans that the Syrian Kurds have lobbied for ever since the withdrawal announcement.

More from WPR: Trump Is Wrong, ISIS Isn’t Defeated. But It Poses a Limited Threat

The Iranian navy launched “large-scale” drills in the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman in a show of its maritime force amid escalating tensions with the United States in the region.

More from WPR: Pre-Emptively Striking Iran Would Be One of the Worst Blunders in American History

Israel opened its first embassy in Rwanda on Friday, offering support to the East Africa nation from health to education and agriculture, as well as communication technology including cybersecurity.

Hamas officials said a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed and at least 30 others injured by live fire as thousands of Palestinians rioted along the Gaza border on Friday, throwing rocks and explosive devices at Israeli soldiers and trying to breach the fence.

As the deadline approaches for the withdrawal of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria, America’s closest European allies have turned down a Trump administration request to fill the gap with their own troops, according to U.S. and foreign officials.

More from WPR: The Many Self-Delusions Behind the Breakup in Trans-Atlantic Relations

Israel’s two leading centrist candidates for prime minister, Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, have joined forces to try to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu, the right-wing leader who has led the country for a decade, in a move that instantly makes the April 9 elections far more competitive.

More from WPR: Gantz’s Rise in Israel Complicates Netanyahu’s Easy Path to Re-Election

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in China on Thursday on the latest stop of a sweep through Asia that seeks to boost relations with the kingdom’s neighbors amid frictions with the West.

Hackers based in Iran and implicated in attacks on the U.S. and Western allies were behind a computer breach of Australia’s Parliament and political parties, a U.S. cyber research company alleged.

U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, an Iraqi security official said Thursday, marking the biggest repatriation from Syria of captured militants so far.

More from WPR: As the Threat of ISIS Recedes, Iraq Looks to Its Neighbors to Spur a Recovery

Leaders from Algeria’s diverse opposition parties have failed to agree on a joint candidate to face incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the April 18 presidential election.

Eastern-based Libyan military forces have taken control of the 70,000 barrel per day southwestern El Feel oilfield, their spokesman said on Thursday.

U.S. prosecutors announced last week that a former Air Force intelligence specialist defected to Iran, and charged her with espionage for allegedly sharing sensitive national security information with the Tehran regime. The revelation has reopened an uncomfortable conversation about treason. It is also raising questions about the murky world of Americans who cooperate with the Iranian regime.

Rather than rushing to punish Hezbollah, the United States should be shoring up the country’s new government to avoid state collapse.

Britain stripped a teenager who traveled to join Islamic State of her citizenship on security grounds, triggering a row over the ramifications of leaving a 19-year-old mother with a jihadist fighter’s child to fend for herself in a war zone.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forged an election alliance with a far-right party on Wednesday that could give followers of the late anti-Arab rabbi, Meir Kahane, a stronger voice in Israeli politics.

More from WPR: Gantz’s Rise in Israel Complicates Netanyahu’s Easy Path to Re-Election

A committee within Jordan’s Parliament called for the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador from the country in response to the latest measures taken by the Israeli army in occupied East Jerusalem.

The United Arab Emirates has eased a ban on the shipping of goods between it and Qatar, enforced under a political and economic boycott of Doha, according to port circulars and an industry source.

More from WPR: What Does Disarray in the Gulf Mean for the GCC?

When President Trump meets North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, next week in Vietnam, his advisers hope to hammer out a road map for ridding the reclusive state of its nuclear weapons. But Trump appears more tantalized, at least for now, by declaring an end to seven decades of war on the Korean Peninsula.

U.S. and Chinese negotiators are trying to resolve a long-running dispute between semiconductor rivals Micron Technology and Fujian Jinhua as part of a larger trade agreement between the world’s two largest economies, according to people briefed on the negotiations.

More from WPR: A U.S.-China Trade Deal Is Coming, but How Big Will It Be?

Saudi Arabia on Friday signed a wide-ranging set of agreements on energy and trade with China, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accelerated efforts to court an economic power that offers a potential counterweight to the U.S.

India vowed Thursday to cut back on water flowing through its rivers to arid Pakistan, a threat it has made before but now seems more determined to carry out in the wake of a suicide bomb attack last week for which India has blamed Pakistan.

More from WPR: ‘He Didn’t Fear Anything’: The Lure of Militancy in India’s Kashmir Valley

Some of the fiercest Muslim rebel commanders in the southern Philippines were sworn in Friday as administrators of a new Muslim autonomous region in a delicate milestone to settle one of Asia’s longest-raging rebellions.

More from WPR: With Autonomy in the Southern Philippines, Muslim Rebels Must Learn How to Govern

Forgot to pay a fine in China? Then forget about buying an airline ticket. Would-be air travelers were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million times last year under a controversial “social credit” system the ruling Communist Party says will improve public behavior.

Russian and U.S. special representatives for Afghan reconciliation met Friday in the Turkish capital Ankara.

More from WPR: How Serious Is a Renewed Push for Peace Talks in Afghanistan?

Customs at China’s northern port of Dalian has banned imports of Australian coal and will cap overall coal imports from all sources for 2019 at 12 million tons, an official at Dalian Port Group has told Reuters.

I had thought that by escaping from the Chinese regime, I had guaranteed my boy a safe and beautiful environment in Canada, with all the opportunities he could want and need. Yet, last week at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, when I made a presentation about the dire situation of our people, I realized that the shadow of the nightmare we experienced so many years ago had followed me and my son to our adopted country.

At the U.S.-North Korea summit, the host may be the biggest winner.

The Trump administration has spent a year trying to convince America’s allies in Europe that the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is a grave threat to their national security and should not be allowed any role in developing new wireless networks.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in China on Thursday on the latest stop of a sweep through Asia that seeks to boost relations with the kingdom’s neighbors amid frictions with the West.

Hackers based in Iran and implicated in attacks on the U.S. and Western allies were behind a computer breach of Australia’s Parliament and political parties, a U.S. cyber research company alleged.

A British national who worked as a media adviser to former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is facing two counts of money laundering charges over $3.5 million that was allegedly linked to his former boss, a government prosecutor said Thursday.

Taiwan on Thursday proposed a draft law to allow same-sex marriage in Asia’s first such bill, but the legislation was criticized by rights activists and conservative groups amid a heated debate over marriage equality.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned that the United States would not be able to partner with or share information with countries that adopt Huawei systems, citing security concerns.

More from WPR: A Chinese Executive’s Arrest Could Open a New Front in the ‘High-Tech Trade War’

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong and President of Argentina Mauricio Macri witnessed the signing of some cooperation documents between Vietnamese and Argentine ministries and agencies following their talks in Hanoi on Feb. 20.

Britain’s talk of deploying a warship in the Pacific has complicated its relationship with China, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Thursday.

More from WPR: Brinkmanship in South China Sea Highlights Larger Struggle for Military Primacy

Afghan Taliban leaders said on Thursday that their new political chief will not be attending peace talks with U.S. envoys due to take place in Qatar next week.

More from WPR: How Serious Is a Renewed Push for Peace Talks in Afghanistan?

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Thursday that the government should resign after what he said was a failure to raise real incomes, boost jobs and improve living standards.

More from WPR: Is Kazakhstan Preparing for a Post-Nazarbayev Era?

For many overseas Chinese, the popularity and multifunctionality of WeChat have made apps popular outside of China unnecessary. But what are the implications of the Chinese diaspora’s heavy reliance on WeChat for information and communication?

Aung San Suu Kyi has more power over the military than you think.

U.S. and North Korean special envoys are to meet in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, to make final preparations for a second summit next week between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Argentine president Mauricio Macri started an official State visit to Vietnam on Wednesday to deepen the bilateral strategic partnership.

A former top Chinese general has been given a life sentence for taking and distributing bribes and possessing a large amount of property whose origins he could not account for.

India plans to buy 21 MiG-29 jet fighters and possibly more from Russia, the RIA news agency cited the deputy director of Russia’s federal service for military-technical cooperation as saying on Wednesday.

A Thai court ruled Wednesday that a Russian man who allegedly was part of a gang that stole millions of dollars online from bank accounts can be extradited to the United States to stand trial, but the suspect could end up in Russia anyway.