Japan says it won’t send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has endorsed Hong Kong's first legislative elections held under new laws ensuring that only “patriots” loyal to Beijing could run as candidates

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam is visiting with top Chinese leaders in Beijing to report on the territory's first legislative elections held under new laws ensuring that only “patriots” loyal to Beijing could run as candidates

A senior Russian diplomat says that Moscow may take unspecified new measures to ensure its security if the U.S. and its allies continue to take provocative action and ignore its demand for guarantees precluding NATO’s expansion to Ukraine

North Korea is commemorating the 10th anniversary of former leader Kim Jong Il's death with calls for greater public loyalty toward his son and current leader Kim Jong Un, who is facing pandemic-related hardships and long-dormant nuclear diplomacy with the U.S. North Korean state newspapers published articles Friday venerating the late leader

The Kremlin says Russia has submitted draft documents outlining security arrangements it wants to negotiate with the United States and its NATO allies

U.S. sports leagues are seeing rapidly increasing COVID-19 outbreaks with dozens of players in health and safety protocols, amid an ongoing surge by the delta variant of the coronavirus and rising cases of the highly transmissible omicron mutation

Russia has vetoed a first-of-its-kind U.N. Security Council resolution casting climate change as a threat to international peace and security