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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday required European allies to take back 800 Islamic State (IS) militants arrested in Syria after the U.S.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert withdrew herself from consideration for the nomination of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN), the department said in a statement on Saturday.
The deputy director-general of China's Department of Consular Affairs Chen Xiongfeng Friday called in the Spanish envoy in Beijing to raise the issue of the freezing of bank accounts of Chinese citizens in Spain without prior notice.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza confirmed Saturday that he has participated in two meetings with U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams to address the two countries' relationship.
Facts have shown and will continue to prove that the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative creates opportunities and benefits for all countries and serves the common interests of humanity, a senior Chinese official said here Saturday.
China hopes that the United States and Russia will return to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a senior Chinese official said here Saturday.
Senior Chinese official Yang Jiechi said here on Saturday that China and Germany should maintain strategic resolve and the steady and healthy development of bilateral relations in the face of today's complicated world.
China has called for upholding international cooperation and multilateralism as the global governance system is facing challenges and uncertainties.
Three months after the "Yellow Vests" movement began, discontent people were staging further rallies and protests on Saturday across French cities for the 14th straight weekend of action against French President Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms.
Egypt plans to make its new administrative capital the first cashless city in the country as part of the country's plans to support financial inclusion, Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat said on Saturday.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions on five Venezuelan officials, the latest move to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai held in Chiang Mai Saturday strategic consultations and exchanged in-depth views on the South China Sea issue.
A delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) arrived in Hanoi on Saturday, ahead of the planned second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, reported Yonhap.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed on Friday a national emergency to expand the U.S.-Mexico border wall and push for his signature campaign promise.
China and the United States held the sixth round of high-level economic and trade consultations in Beijing from Thursday to Friday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who were here for a new round of China-U.S. high-level economic and trade consultations, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, saying "important progress for the current stage" was made after the two-day talks.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who were here for a new round of China-U.S. high-level economic and trade consultations, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held talks Friday at the inter-Korean liaison office in the DPRK's border town of Kaesong, according to local media reports citing Seoul's unification ministry.
U.S. lawmakers' attempt to impose sanctions on Russian energy projects and banks was "racketeering," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday night passed a legislation on spending and border security to avert another government shutdown, hours after the bill was approved by the Senate.
The death toll of a suicide attack targeting paramilitary troopers belonging to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday has risen to 40, officials said.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives Thursday passed a spending bill that funds new barriers for the U.S.-Mexico border a day before a midnight Friday deadline, avoiding another U.S. government shutdown.
The Venezuela issue can only be resolved by its people and the government led by President Nicolas Maduro is advancing negotiations with the opposition party, the country's ambassador to Beijing said on Thursday.
Beijing on Thursday criticized Washington for creating an excuse to increase military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region by playing up China's so-called militarization of the South China Sea.
Britain's leading business trade body has demanded greater clarity from the government on its plans in the event the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without a deal on March 29.
Russia is ready to join mediation efforts to help end the Venezuelan crisis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
Two UN agencies Thursday called on states and regional organizations to take urgent actions to ensure no child is born, or remains, stateless in Europe.
A total of six Islamic State (IS) militants and a police officer were killed on Thursday in separate incidents in Iraq's north-central province of Salahudin, a provincial police source said.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed William Barr, President Donald Trump's nominee, to become the next attorney general.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Thursday wrapped up this year's first ministerial meeting over arms control, burden-sharing and European defence etc, as tensions resulting from Washington and Moscow's disputes over who violated a Cold War era arms-control treaty loom large.
