Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps

President Joe Biden is calling for Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes and says he’ll seek more sanctions against Russia after what he described as “outrageous” acts of atrocity around Kyiv

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the South Korean defense minister a “scum-like guy” for talking about preemptive strikes on the North and warned the South may face “a serious threat.”

The European Union will seek China’s assurances that it won’t assist Russia in circumventing economic sanctions leveled over the invasion of Ukraine at an annual summit Friday

Asian stock markets are lower after Chinese manufacturing weakened and Russian shelling around Ukraine’s capital jolted hopes of progress in peace talks

The Russian ruble has bounced back to almost its full value since before the West imposed economic sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine

The White House says U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by advisers about his military's poor performance in Ukraine

China's ambitions for Afghanistan's stability and economic development under the Taliban will be seen at meetings it is hosting starting Wednesday

President Joe Biden says he is making “no apologies” and won't be “walking anything back” after his weekend comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.”