North Korea, China and Japan take a series of confidence-building steps in an attempt to cement an improvement in relations after last week's Singapore summit.
Ambassador Nikki Haley said the U.S. will exit the U.N. Human Rights Council after failing to see significant enthusiasm to reform the organization, and MercyCorps calls for ending the Trump Administration's 'zero tolerance' immigration policy.
Despite President Trump's claims, a lot stands between North Korea's current economy and “the highest level of future development," explains AEI economist Nicholas Eberstadt.
After a glimpse of a diplomatic breakthrough, nationalists Macedonia and Greece dig into hard-line positions on a 'naming issue' that's driven them apart for decades.
What exactly did President Trump and Kim Jong Un agree to in Singapore? It's hard to know for certain.
Facing possible diplomatic impasse in Singapore, the U.S. considers 'unique' security guarantees aimed at making North Korea comfortable with denuclearization.
A team of Indian entrepreneurs wins the $1 million Women's Safety XPrize for building a discreet device capable of sending emergency alerts and location info if a woman is attacked.
India pledges to eliminate single-use plastic by 2022, part of a major United Nations-led campaign to cut down on global plastic waste.
The U.N. condemns new U.S. immigration policies leading to migrant children being detained apart from their parents, and Guatemala digs out from a severe volcanic eruption.
On the one year anniversary of President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, Republican Mayor Jim Brainard of Carmel, Indiana makes the conservative case for sticking with the deal.
A whirlwind week in European politics sees new governments in Italy and Spain, and the E.U. pledges a tough response to American steel and aluminum tariffs.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continues meetings with a top North Korean diplomat in New York, and the U.S. is set to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the E.U., Canada and Mexico.
A top North Korean diplomat heads to New York for meetings with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Ukraine fakes the death of a Russian journalist to help catch his assassin.
Dutch investigators pin blame on the Russian army for the shoot-down of MH17, Israel authorizes more settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the IAEA says Iran remains in compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal.
The World Health Organization says the coming weeks will be key in determining whether an Ebola outbreak in the Congo turns into a regional health crisis.
Russia's parliament passes a watered down counter-sanctions bill targeting the U.S., and North Korea prepares to demolish a nuclear test site in a ceremony for foreign reporters.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro secures another six years in office in a widely-criticized election in which two top opposition candidates were banned.
The UN's top human rights officials disputes Israel's claim that it sought to minimize deaths during clashes at the Gaza border on Monday.
French President Emmanuel Macron concedes European businesses will have the final say about doing business with Iran, and a new Ebola outbreak reaches a major city in central Africa.
European leaders seek to limit the impact of threatened US sanctions if businesses keep doing business with Iran.
The US blocks a UN Security Council resolution that called for an investigation into the deaths of least 60 Palestinians on Monday.
US officials join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open the American embassy in Jerusalem, and the World Health Organization launches a campaign to eliminate trans fats worldwide.
Russia backs off a plan to send advanced missile systems to Syria, and France's finance minister says the country won't be a US 'vassal' when it comes to setting policy with Iran.
American hostages return from North Korea, Malaysia's new 92-year-old prime minister and Israel strikes targets in Syria once again.
World leaders respond with concern to Trump's pullout of the Iran nuclear deal, and Kim Jong Un tells China it will pursue "phased" denuclearization in talks with the US.