At least 20 Indian troops were killed Tuesday in a clash with Chinese soldiers in Kashmir, marking the first deadly confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in the disputed border area in 45 years.
Swiss authorities are looking for the owner of $190,000 worth of gold bars that were apparently left behind on a train last year, according to a report.
The brother of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan-- who was sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in Russia on charges of espionage-- is urging the U.S. government to "find a way to have him freed," after what he says was a "set up" and a "sham trial."
It is coming up on nine years since Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi was assassinated, splintering the North African nation into a protracted conflict of contested rulers and warring militias.
A Pennsylvania man who claimed to be a Christian missionary and went to Africa to open an orphanage pleaded guilty Monday to sexually molesting four underage girls -- two as young as 11 years old -- whom he told to call him "dad."
The U.S. Air Force pilot who died Monday after his F-15C Eagle crashed into the North Sea off the coast of England during a training exercise had just arrived there in February, his unit says.
The wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been hospitalized with double pneumonia after contracting the new coronavirus, joining the ranks of several first ladies around the world who got infected with COVID-19 earlier this year.
A German court began hearing the case Tuesday against two far-right extremists accused of killing a regional politician whose execution-style slaying shocked the country last year.
A local politician in Germany died after he was struck by lightning Saturday while taking a reported bathroom break as a severe storm slammed the region.
At least three Indian soldiers were killed during a "violent faceoff" with Chinese troops in the Himalayas on Monday night, according to the Indian army.
South Korea said Tuesday that North Korea’s military demolished an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border, only days after the Hermit Kingdom threatened a "tragic scene" at the site.
The brother of a Michigan man, who once served in the Marines, deployed twice to Iraq and was sentenced Monday by a Russian court to 16 years of hard labor, is pleading for his release, urging President Trump on Monday to get involved to negotiate his release, as the Russian government floats the idea of a prisoner swap for an arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death."
The U.S. government made it clear in March that it would not cooperate with an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. military and intelligence personnel in Afghanistan, and late last week, the Trump administration doubled-down on its stance by issuing an executive order that paves the way for ICC employees and their families to be barred from entry to the United States, and slapped with economic sanctions.
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday said it would hold a debate on “systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests” amid global demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd in the U.S.
China and North Korea are ramping up their nuclear weapon arsenals while world superpowers like the U.S. and Russia are drawing them down, a report says.
Relatives of a Saudi Arabian princess, who has purportedly remained imprisoned for over a year after trying to fly to Europe for routine medical care, are now fearing the worst about her health, claiming that they have not been able to get in contact with her two months.