The stalled operation, code-named “M&Ms,” sought to isolate Russian elites and force Vladimir Putin to negotiate a truce.

The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington.

The suspected launch on Thursday comes a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy.

A Hong Kong court is set to deliver its verdict for two former organizers of the city’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on Friday

Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been transferred to a hospital from prison after an order from the country’s top court, according to a statement by his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned 15 people involved in a network allegedly shipping cocaine from Ecuador through Mexico to the U.S. The operation uses Ecuador-based fishing vessels to transfer cocaine

Critics in the small West African nation say their government has not said why it agreed to one of the largest U.S. deportation deals, who the deportees are, or how they will be handled.

The State Department has accused China of wrongfully detaining a U.S. citizen on spying charges and called for his release Thursday. The detained scholar, Min Zin, traveled to Yunnan Province, which borders Myanmar,