Germany Refuses to Join US Naval Mission in Strait of Hormuz

Germany Refuses to Join US Naval Mission in Strait of Hormuz

Germany has rejected the U.S. call to join an international mission to protect maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. The...

Hungary Defends Transit of Russian Military Goods to Serbia

Hungary Defends Transit of Russian Military Goods to Serbia

Inspecting 10 newly arrived Russian armored vehicles at a Serbian Army base in Nis, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic thanked Russian...

Demise of US-Russian Nuclear Treaty Triggers Warnings

Demise of US-Russian Nuclear Treaty Triggers Warnings

In December 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan hosted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the White House for a ceremony that...

Russian Hospital Says Tests Exclude Navalny Poisoning

Russian Hospital Says Tests Exclude Navalny Poisoning

The head of a Russian medical center says laboratory tests performed on unspecified biomaterial taken from opposition politician Aleksei Navalny...

Boris Johnson in Belfast as Brexit Woes Weigh on UK Economy

Boris Johnson in Belfast as Brexit Woes Weigh on UK Economy

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met political leaders Wednesday in Northern Ireland, where he faces a doubly difficult challenge: restoring...

Huawei Remains No. 2 Smartphone Seller Despite US Sanctions

Huawei Remains No. 2 Smartphone Seller Despite US Sanctions

Huawei remained the No. 2 global smartphone vendor in the past quarter despite tough U.S. sanctions imposed on the Chinese...

Sagging Growth, Inflation Build Case for Europe Rate Cut

Sagging Growth, Inflation Build Case for Europe Rate Cut

Inflation and growth have sagged in the eurozone, official figures showed Wednesday, bolstering the case for the European Central Bank...

Teens From Around the Globe Solve Problems at Google Competition

Teens From Around the Globe Solve Problems at Google Competition

When Celestine Wenardy, a 16-year-old teenager from Indonesia, learned that diabetes was a “silent killer” in her country, she wondered...

Teens From Around the Globe Compete at Google

Teens From Around the Globe Compete at Google

Teenagers from around the world were on Google’s campus this week to compete in a science competition. Their projects brought...

A Blockchain Remedy for Handwritten Prescriptions

A Blockchain Remedy for Handwritten Prescriptions

Doctors’ scrawls and scribbles are notoriously hard to read. Electronic prescriptions remedy the problem but around the world and especially...

Turkish Security Council Mulls Syrian Operation, Despite Washington’s Warnings

Turkish Security Council Mulls Syrian Operation, Despite Washington’s Warnings

Turkey’s National Security Council met Tuesday to decide whether to launch a military offensive into Syria against the YPG Kurdish...

US Presidential Envoy Sent to Sweden for A$AP Rocky’s Trial

US Presidential Envoy Sent to Sweden for A$AP Rocky’s Trial

American rapper A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty to assault as his trial in Sweden opened Tuesday, a month after a...

Russian Court Rejects Kremlin Critic Navalny’s Early Release Appeal

Russian Court Rejects Kremlin Critic Navalny’s Early Release Appeal

A court in Moscow rejected jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s appeal for early release on health grounds on Tuesday, after...

Minister: Trump Argument for French Wine Tariffs ‘Absurd’

Minister: Trump Argument for French Wine Tariffs ‘Absurd’

France’s agriculture minister on Tuesday slammed US President Donald Trump’s argument behind threatened tariffs on French wines as “absurd” and...

US Asks Germany to Help Secure Strait of Hormuz

US Asks Germany to Help Secure Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. has officially asked Germany to help secure the strategic Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Iran in...

Navalny, Awaiting Appeal, Shares Suspicions He May Have Been Poisoned

Navalny, Awaiting Appeal, Shares Suspicions He May Have Been Poisoned

Russian opposition activist Aleksei Navalny says he shares the suspicions of his lawyer and doctor that he may have been...

US Rapper A$AP Rocky Pleads Not Guilty in Swedish Assault Case

US Rapper A$AP Rocky Pleads Not Guilty in Swedish Assault Case

U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a charge of assault on the first day of a...

After Moon Landing Anniversary, NASA Aims Beyond Earth Orbit

After Moon Landing Anniversary, NASA Aims Beyond Earth Orbit

What looks like an unusual giant orange metal canister, rising high above the windy and humid Alabama landscape, has some...

Rights Groups Condemn Excessive Use of Force Against Protesters in Russia

Rights Groups Condemn Excessive Use of Force Against Protesters in Russia

Human rights groups have condemned excessive use of force by the police on Saturday against protesters demanding free elections in...

After Anniversary, NASA Aims Beyond Earth Orbit

After Anniversary, NASA Aims Beyond Earth Orbit

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing celebrated the crowning achievement in crewed space flight, but also reminded...

Sputnik Drops Journalists after Interview with Erdogan Rival

Sputnik Drops Journalists after Interview with Erdogan Rival

The Russian-financed Sputnik language service in Turkey canceled a radio program after the show’s three Turkish journalists interviewed a prominent...

Turkey Accused of Forcible Deportation of Syrian Refugees

Turkey Accused of Forcible Deportation of Syrian Refugees

An international human rights group is accusing Turkey of forcibly deporting Syrians to their war-torn country. Ankara denies the accusation...