The political battle over control of Venezuela has turned to a $1.8 billion stack of gold bars sitting in the Bank of England’s vault in London, where a judge is expected to decide soon on who has the rightful claim to the bullion.
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Chinese prosecutors charged two detained Canadians with spying Friday in an apparent bid to step up pressure on Canada to drop a U.S. extradition request for a Huawei executive under house arrest in Vancouver.
Read moreEuropean countries are slamming the Trump administration’s withdrawal from negotiations over a major tax on big tech companies.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North blew up a liaison office to ramp up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration.
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An Arab Israeli diplomat once deployed abroad to counter Israel’s critics says he was beaten by security guards at Jerusalem’s central bus station last week in what he believes was a case of ethnic profiling.
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North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a choreographed display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
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After more than a year of thinly veiled threats to pull U.S. troops out of Germany unless Berlin increases its defense spending, President Trump appears to be proceeding with a hardball approach, planning to cut the U.S. military contingent by more than 25%.
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A Russian court on Monday sentenced a U.S. businessman to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a sentence that he and his brother rejected as political.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iran mistakenly told the shah in 1953 that Britain’s newly enthroned Queen Elizabeth II backed a plan to overthrow the country’s elected prime minister and America maintained the fiction even after realizing the error, historians now say.
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The U.S. government’s failure to condemn a consulate worker’s sentencing Thursday speaks volumes. ‘I wouldn’t work for us,’ one Turkey expert said.
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North Korea said it was cutting off all communication channels with South Korea on Tuesday, a move experts say could signal Pyongyang has grown frustrated that Seoul has failed to revive lucrative inter-Korean economic projects and persuade the United States to ease sanctions.
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The Czech Republic has expelled two Russian diplomats after a Russian embassy employee spread false information about a planned poison attack on three Prague politicians, officials said on Friday.
Read morePresident Trump said Saturday he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations he’d planned to hold this month despite the coronavirus pandemic. And he said he plans to invite Russia, Australia, South Korea and India as he again advocated for the group’s expansion.
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No longer considering the territory autonomous from China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that the United States will work toward stripping Hong Kong of special diplomatic status.
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President Trump announced Thursday the U.S. will soon exit a treaty that allows more than 30 nations to fly over each other’s territory with sensors that can detect military equipment.
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President Donald Trump is threatening to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization unless it makes major improvements in the next 30 days.
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China on Friday urged the United States to meet it halfway and strengthen cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic after President Trump threatened to sever bilateral ties.
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China hit back Wednesday at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claims that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, saying he “doesn’t have any” evidence.
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The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said Monday that it has received no evidence from the U.S. government to back up allegations by President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the coronavirus could have originated at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Read moreU.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.
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