BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first state visit to the United States in September, China said on Wednesday, after both countries’ leaders laid out possible areas of friction in a telephone call. U.S. President Barack Obama called for “swift work” by China to narrow differences on cyber issues, the White […]

Greece and the OECD agreed on Wednesday to work together on reforms to the Greek economy, but Athens insisted it would not let outsiders decide what policies it should adopt. Speaking ahead of a meeting of euro zone finance ministers in Brussels, where Greece will present a demand for an end to its international bailout […]

The top Republican and Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday called for $1 billion in lethal defensive aid to Ukraine as Congress increased pressure on President Barack Obama to help …

Greece’s new government is confronting its eurozone creditors head on at an emergency meeting Wednesday, where Athens will seek to ease its bailout conditions in the face of strong resistance from its …

After the plague pandemic during the Middle Ages, the plague became less of a problem, but Yersinia pestis—the bacterium that causes the plague—still results in occasional outbreaks. Outbreaks have occurred in the recent past in India and Africa, and …

I see the world working together to end the Ebola pandemic. I see work to achieve a peaceful resolution to the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program. I see cooperation to reach an ambitious global agreement on climate change, and to curb the strife in …

Violence against women (VAW) is a pandemic, by any measure, and the repeated failures on the part of nations to provide meaningful recourse for victims of entrenched gender violence has led to growing calls by national and transnational actors alike …

“Clearly, terrorism and the target we are of terrorists and Americans are of terrorists at home and abroad is something that the president should not equate with the focus we should have on global climate change or pandemic disease,” Sen. Roy Blunt, R …

And there were concerns the epidemic could become a pandemic if it escaped West Africa and made its way to Europe, Asia, or the United States. “Bodies lying in the street…gangs threatening to burn down hospitals. I believe this disease has the …

Kicking off at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas mid-May, the group will stop at the legendary Greek Theater in Los Angeles as well as make major festival appearances at Sasquatch Festival in Washington state and Governor's Ball in New York—the last stop on …