Russia’s domestic security agency says it has arrested a U.S. citizen on espionage charges.

Russian emergency officials say that at least four people have died after sections of an apartment building collapsed after an apparent gas explosion in the Ural Mountains region.

Maria Sharapova returned to competitive tennis with a 6-2, 7-6 (3) win against Timea Bacsinszky in the first round of Shenzhen Open on Monday.

Driven from office by scandal, former South African president Jacob Zuma plans to record music in 2019.

A Pakistani official says Indian troops have fired across the two countries’ line of control in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing a woman and wounding three people.

Iran confirmed Monday that a delegation of the Taliban visited Tehran and discussed efforts to bring a negotiated end to Afghanistan’s 17-year war.

A court in Bahrain has upheld a five-year prison sentence against prominent activist Nabeel Rajab over tweets alleging torture at a prison in his country and criticism of the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

Congo’s election officials are counting votes Monday in a presidential election that the opposition and observers say has had numerous irregularities.

Romanian officials have slammed European Union officials for treating it as 'a second-rate' country as it prepares to take over the EU’s rotating presidency on Tuesday.

Suspected Muslim militants remotely detonated a bomb near the entrance of a mall in the southern Philippines on Monday as people did last-minute shopping ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations, killing at least two and wounding nearly 30, officials said.