Russia has begun cutting oil output within the framework of last year's agreement among major producers to limit supply and bolster global prices, a source familiar with the course of the agreement told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
Turkish forces have eliminated 19 Daesh militants over the past 24 hours as part of the Euphrates Shield operation near the town of Al Bab in northern Syria, the Turkish General Staff said Tuesday.
According to the Russian envoy to the UN, certain members of the UNSC are still fomenting the conflict in Syria.
India is keeping its date with the launch of Scorpene submarines despite the leakage of most of its primary data. This may be due China's naval wooing of India's neighbors.
Leaders from India have hesitated to visit Israel because of its attachment to the Palestinian cause. Modi broke the taboo and a flurry of visits indicates he will be the first Indian PM to visit Israel.
The highly successful community from Iran has renounced its age-old tradition of sky burial because of the strain in the symbiotic relationship between vultures and the dead whose corpses they eat.
That's what a "deep sleep" looks like!
Southern Philippines were struck by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said Tuesday.
US Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work may be kept on in his current position for three to six months under the incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump, media reported.
A Palestinian man has been killed by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) after attempting to attack Israeli soldiers with a knife, local media said Tuesday.
An unknown man attacked a producer of the RT Ruptly video news service during a rally of the local branch of anti-immigrant and anti-Islam movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) in Germany's Leipzig, media reported on Tuesday.
South Korea rejected US and Japanese proposal to conduct joint military exercises aimed at countering North Korea’s submarines, Japanese media reported Tuesday, citing sources.
Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said she planed to travel the US territory of Guam on Thursday in order to see the newest Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in a search of better defense capabilities against the North Korean nuclear threat.
UN Security Council condemns the recent terrorist attack in Egypt's Sinai and calls for bringing those responsible to justice, the Council said in a press statement on Monday.
Representatives of Iran and the P5+1 group of international mediators, comprising Russia, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany, will meet in the Austrian capital to discuss the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) implementation and the recent US Congress' decision to extend sanctions against Tehran.
The collapse of a suspension bridge in central Colombia resulted in death of 11 people.
The US move to send more tanks, armored vehicles and 3,500 troops to Eastern Europe to deter alleged Russian aggression may instead encourage small countries to try and provoke conflicts between Washington and Moscow, US analysts told Sputnik.
A man from Pomona in the US state of California has turned himself in to the Los Angeles Police Department for trespassing and altering the famous Hollywood sign on the outskirts of the city to read "HOLLYWeeD" on New Year's Day, the local media reported Tuesday.
National Development and Reform Commission Chair Xu Shaoshi said that China’s annual GDP growth rate in 2016 is likely amount to some 6.7 percent according to the preliminary results.
German prosecutors have closed their investigation into the crash of a Germanwings passenger aircraft in the French Alps nearly two years ago.
The man, suspected of injuring the US consulate employee in Mexican Guadalajara was sent to the United States, local El Universal newspaper reported Tuesday.
The US National Guard and other security forces are preparing for the upcoming inauguration of President Donald Trump, amid hints of possible unrest.
The opposition-led National Assembly of Venezuela does not have the authority to dismiss President Nicolas Maduro from office, the state’s Supreme Court said.
The Department of Defense said that a US weapons manufacturer won a contract totalling nearly half a billion dollars to produce surveillance drones for Special Operations Command.
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for US secretary of state Rex Tillerson will face intense questioning in confirmation hearings this week regarding his potential policy towards Russia, former diplomat and adviser to Senate Republican leaders Jim Jatras told Sputnik.