President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia and Philippines "many promising areas of interest" to cooperate on, adding that the package of documents to develop dilateral ties will be signed on Wednesday.
Britian's Theresa May has alerted military units to support armed police after meeting in the COBRA emergency room earlier on Tuesday with senior military leaders.
In spite of a campaign promise to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to a location in the hotly contested city of Jerusalem, US President Donald Trump has departed from his visit to the country with no mention of the shift.
Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Liu Jieyi called on Tuesday for a dialogue with Pyongyang over its nuclear program without setting preconditions, saying it is the only way to settle the Korean peninsula issue.
A high-level North Korean detector has ominously claimed that the DPRK military has hundreds and hundreds of attack drones capable of carrying biological and chemical agents to attack Seoul within a single hour.
A North German man admitted in a court hearing Monday that he was trying to kill his ex-girlfriend in November 2016 by dragging her behind his car with a rope around her neck, all while their young son sat inside the vehicle.
A man carrying a knife has been detained in the UK city of Birmingham during a candlelight vigil devoted to the victims of the deadly Manchester terror attack that claimed lives of at least 22 people and injured another 120 people.
UAE Energy Minister Suhail Mohamed Faraj Mazrouei said Tuesday he is optimistic about the talks of members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) regarding the issue of oil output cuts amid good compliance with the oil curtailment deal.
A delegation of German lawmakers, including the Bundestag's Vice President Claudia Roth, canceled on Tuesday their visit to Turkey, which was scheduled for this week, for unknown reasons, local media reported.
Canada is reviewing its participation in international anti-terrorism operations, including those against Daesh terror group (banned in Russia) and in Afghanistan, Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan told reporters on Tuesday.
During his testimony before the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, former CIA Director John Brennan said that the true danger to the integrity of US intelligence comes from leaks of classified information to the media, not Trump sharing information with allies.
Obama's CIA Director John Brennan took part in the hearing on the Russia-Trump alleged ties on Tuesday, saying that there is no evidence in the case and that he believes the leaks of classified information to the press are "appalling."
US Senator Rand Paul plans to force a vote on the $110 billion dollar arms deal to Saudi Arabia announced by President Donald Trump during his visit to the country over the weekend, an aide to Paul said on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the head of Japan’s Self Defense Forces said that North Korea has reached a “new stage” in its effort to build a long-range nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching the US mainland, and that Pyongyang’s threats require close collaboration between the US, Japan and South Korea.
Just a day after Melania Trump sent the twittersphere into a frenzy for slapping President Trump’s hand away in Israel, the first lady is back at it -- this time the rebuff took place in Rome.
Moscow is concerned over the escalation of the conflict in Libya and urges all the parties to the internal conflict to refrain from the use of force, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
The 70-year-old Governor of the State of Iowa, Terry Branstad, has been approved as the new US ambassador to China by a member majority vote in the US Senate from both Republicans and Democrats. Sputnik takes a look at how the new diplomat will affect bilateral relations.
In a rare bit of good news for privacy activists in the United States, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a legal challenge to the massive global surveillance architecture of the NSA may proceed, amid claims that the agency routinely invades the privacy rights of citizens while trampling on the laws of the US Constitution.
Donald Trump's 2018 budget means that ordinary Americans and US allies overseas will have to tighten their belts. However, before turning the ambitious plan into reality the US administration will have to get Congress's approval, RIA Novosti contributor Igor Gashkov noted.
The United States' media coverage of the Lavrov-Trump on May 10 was an example of "medieval bigotry," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Monday’s attack in the north west UK city of Manchester is barbaric and cowardly, and the people responsible must be brought to justice, the UN Security Council said in a statement on Tuesday.
The $603 billion budget proposed by US President Donald Trump for the Defense Department for fiscal year 2018 is not enough, Senator John McCain said in a statement on Tuesday.
Reporters Without Borders in a statement on Tuesday condemned Ukraine's decision to ban Russian social networks because it undermines freedom of expression.
Albania to launch an investigation into those suspect of having ties to the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, Albanian Chief Prosecutor Adriatik Llala said Tuesday.
On Sunday, McCain criticized Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's recent visit to the White House, calling him "nothing but a propagandist" and a "stooge" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that Lavrov "had no business in the Oval Office."