Cheeky North Korea has sent a nine-page letter to the U.S. demanding it stops the ‘hostile nuclear threats’ towards the rogue state and its despotic leader.
Canada's defense minister says the country is looking at buying 18 Boeing Super Hornet jet fighters on an interim basis and will hold an open competition to buy more planes in the months ahead.
The international chemical weapons watchdog says Russia has offered to provide samples linked to alleged chemical weapon use in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
An international aid group has warned of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen's western city of Taiz, saying that corpses litter the streets and civilians are trapped.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they are investigating a group of Texas Rangers prospects who reportedly posted an image on social media showing a sexual assault on an underage teammate.
Estonia's head of state has appointed a new center-left government that pledges to keep the NATO member's foreign and security policy unchanged amid allegations that a key coalition member has links to Russia.
A Canadian man involved in an alleged plot to commit mass-murder at a mall on Canada's Atlantic coast has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.
Germany's top security official says the country's domestic spy agency has started monitoring the so-called Reich Citizens' Movement, whose members have shown an increasing tendency toward violence.
More than 1,000 police officers, some dressed as Santa Claus, have staged a noisy protest in the Romanian capital demanding they be allowed to retire at 60.
Germany stopped disability payments to only several dozen Nazi war crimes suspects despite passing a law that was expected to remove payments to tens of thousands.
Bosnia's state prosecution says a Croatian woman wanted in Bosnia for war crimes she allegedly committed against Serbs during the 1992-95 war has been extradited from the United States.