NEWTIMES

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has held a session

Explicit anti-Kremlin protests are a new phenomenon in Armenia and come amid a wave of instability in the Southern Caucasus, which is flanked by Russia, Iran and Turkey.

Turkey, as always, supports the territorial integrity of Iraq.

Japan will renew oil imports from the United States after US Congress lifted a 40-year export ban last month, Japanese media reported Tuesday, according to Sputnik News.

According to reports, earlier Iraqi Air Force raid on an Islamic State convoy in the western province of Anbar wounded al-Baghdadi and killed three of his deputies

Killings only included if name of victim, date and location of death are known; 'Extremely high rate of killings' reflects 'drastically deteriorating pattern,' UN human rights commissioner says.

The State Council, China's cabinet, is currently deliberating a major aircraft engine research and development project, sources revealed Thursday.

Gaza is calm today, with last night’s ceasefire holding into daylight. Despite a few overnight strikes into Israel the truce appears to be holding, although our reporter says air-raid sirens could be heard on the Israeli side of the border at times.

Xi Jinping led the new Politburo Standing Committee out onto the stage at the National People’s Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, signalling his elevation to the top of China’s ruling Communist Party and the man set to lead the country for the next ten years

A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 15 in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war and an invasion of the enclave