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CNN's Jim Sciutto explains the geopolitical conflict in the South China Sea.

CNN's Jim Sciutto explains the geopolitical conflict in the South China Sea.

An international tribunal in the Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines Tuesday, concluding that there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within South China Sea areas falling within the '"nine-dash line."

At a time when most OPEC countries are ramping up oil output, Venezuela produced just 2.15 million barrels of crude oil per day in June, according to S&P Global Platts estimates. That's the weakest pace since February 2003, Platts said.

As the Russia-NATO Council gets ready to meet Wednesday in Brussels for only the second time in two years, many are pessimistic over the possibility of real progress as tensions between the two entities have been rising in recent days.

The four-star commander of the U.S. Central Command got an unexpected, up close and personal look Monday at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy when a U.S. Navy warship he was on was approached by five armed Iranian craft in the Arabian Gulf.

Almost 70 years after it was created, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is faced with a growing challenge, one that loomed large over the group's summit meeting last week: Russia's increasing assertiveness and military power.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries produced nearly 32.9 million barrels of oil a day in June, according to its monthly statistical bulletin.

Given Kachepa was trafficked to the U.S. and exploited as part of a boys' choir. But he was eventually rescued and found a brighter future.

A panel of five experts in maritime law has handed down their final decision in a case that will have major, lasting implications for one of the world's biggest potential flashpoints -- the South China Sea.

Again and again, Vietnamese fisherman, Le Tan, keeps finding trouble out at sea.

China will add to the growing gloom hanging over the world economy when it posts its weakest growth in seven years on Friday.

Reema Al Banna didn't always have her eyes set on fashion.

Last Saturday, a glimmer of hope landed in the Turkish beach resort of Antalya. The first convoy of Russian tourists in eight months stepped off an airliner to an extra helping of Turkish hospitality.

Things have been going Theresa May's way lately. As a Remainer, she was on the losing side of the EU Referendum vote. But then she became the first of David Cameron's team to announce her bid to succeed him as Prime Minister and soon most of her rivals self-combusted.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who arrived in Baghdad Monday, announced the U.S. is sending 560 additional troops to Iraq as part of the stepped-up fight against ISIS.

The United States is evacuating non-emergency staff from its embassy in South Sudan as bloody violence in the capital spirals, leaving scores of people dead, including two Chinese U.N. peacekeepers.

Theresa May is not a mother -- her opponent made that clear, to her own demise -- but you may be wondering who exactly is this conservative politician tapped to lead post-Brexit Great Britain.

She is the last one standing for a job no one else seems to want.

North Korea said Monday it has decided to close its only direct diplomatic link with Washington, a move made days after the United States slapped sanctions on the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, and other officials over human rights abuses.