Vladimir Putin landed in China on Tuesday to a warm welcome from his “dear friend” President Xi Jinping, but he arrived with the heavy burden of a war he increasingly seems unable to win.

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday that the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is seeking a warrant for his arrest in what he called “a declaration of war.”

Israeli authorities are issuing Palestinians demolition orders in East Jerusalem at an accelerated rate since Israel launched war with Iran, human rights groups and U.N. experts say.

Health officials reported more than 130 suspected deaths and 513 cases, a sharp rise since the outbreak was first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Major Russian air, sea and land military drills were underway with Belarus to practice deploying nuclear force in the event of an "aggression threat."

After a month stranded, a ship's Filipino crew voted under mounting pressure to risk the perilous six-hour journey, made treacherous by mines and Iranian attacks.

A bomb outside a Defense Ministry building in the Syrian capital has killed one soldier and wounded about a dozen other people. The Defense Ministry reported that soldiers discovered a bomb in the

Rescuers found four Italian divers' bodies deep inside a Maldives underwater cave days after they vanished during a dive far beyond recreational limits.