Syrian president Bashar Assad has denied reports that his government is targeting hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
Syrian opposition activists and international relief agencies have said...
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously agreed that Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next UN Secretary-General.
Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has appointed the head of the country's state-controlled nuclear corporation as his new domestic policy strategist.
Mr Putin's decree names Rosatom...
People boarded up beach homes, schools closed and officials ordered evacuations along the East Coast as Hurricane Matthew tore through the Bahamas and took...
Democrat Tim Kaine aggressively challenged Republican Mike Pence over a long list of Donald Trump's controversial positions and statements in the only vice presidential...
