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Joe Biden makes his first trip to Brussels as U.S. president this week to meet with other leaders from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and to discuss defense priorities, such as China, an increasingly hostile Russia and the threats posed by climate...

Responding to concerns raised over potential human rights violations in Xinjiang, China called the scrutiny "lies, rumours and baseless accusations."

Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2018, a Gulfstream jet carrying a team of Saudi assassins on its way to Istanbul made a quick stopover in Cairo. The purpose: to pick up a lethal dose of “illegal” narcotics that was injected a few hours later into...

Biden is attending his first NATO meeting as president, aiming to build bridges after Trump berated allies as 'deadbeats' and belittled the alliance.