Heating up. South Koreaās military said North Korea fired about 80 artillery rounds into a maritime buffer zone overnight. On Friday, South Korea scrambled...
Deal is off. Russia announced over the weekend that it was suspending its participation in a U.N.-backed deal that facilitated the transport of Ukrainian...
Congress closes. The Chinese Communist Party concluded its 20th National Congress on Sunday. On the closing day, Xi Jinping was given an unprecedented third...
Summit in Yerevan. The heads of government of the Eurasian Economic Union (Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) met on Friday in Yerevan. They...
Quad cooperation. Australia and Japan will sign a defense agreement this weekend, strengthening military cooperation between the two allies. The deal is expected to...
Spheres of influence. Meetings continue at the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. The latest highlights: Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited...
Persistent inflation. U.S. consumer prices accelerated on a monthly basis in September, defying expectations of a continued slowdown. The consumer price index rose 0.4...
Russian retaliation. Russiaās Ministry of Defense announced a massive strike on targets related to Ukraineās military command, communications and energy infrastructure following the strike...
Renewed fighting. Armeniaās Foreign Ministry accused Azerbaijanās armed forces of opening fire on Wednesday toward the Armenian border and killing three people. The ministry...
Escalation. Referendums were held last week in the nominally Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to see if residents there wanted to...