The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine made a rare acknowledgment of the pressures they are under from Ukrainian offensives to retake southern and eastern areas that Moscow claims to have annexed just weeks ago.
An American citizen has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, tortured and sentenced to 16 years in prison over tweets he sent while in the United States, his son said Tuesday.
In what a Swedish newspaper described as the first publicly released footage of damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Europe, film from a private drone appeared to show a gaping rupture in one pipe.
Three police officers in Ukraine's capital shot down a drone on Monday, but officials are warning citizens not to try it themselves.
French cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty on Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group so that a plant in Syria could remain open, a case that the U.S. Justice Department described as the first of its kind.
An Iranian female competitive climber left South Korea on Tuesday after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation's mandatory headscarf covering, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside of Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian officials and could face arrest back home, which Tehran quickly denied.
Gasoline, diesel and kerosene not only fuel Haiti's economy — they're also at the heart of its civil conflict.
