A senior Russian military official was shot in Moscow early Friday and has been hospitalized, authorities said.

A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others, officials said, a rare bombing in Pakistan's capital as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks across the country.

The European Commission is weighing energy, financial services and trade sanctions against Russia as the Ukraine war enters its fifth year.

The investigation began when police uncovered a murder plot involving a corrections management employee who was targeted by mobsters, an official said.

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds to each family of 21 coal miners killed in 1949.

If nothing replaces the New START nuclear arms treaty, security analysts see a more dangerous environment with a higher risk of miscalculation.

Iran and the United States held indirect talks in Oman on Friday, negotiations that appeared to return to the starting point on how to approach discussions over Tehran’s nuclear program. But for the first time,

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy former media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday following his conviction in December under a Beijing-imposed national security law