Pence said the President-elect is making sure that "we intend to be fully engaged in the region and fully engaged with both nations to advance peace and security."

US vice President Joe Biden has said that he would contest for the post of president in the 2020 US presidential elections.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will be contesting in the upcoming French presidential elections as a Socialist nominee for which he’ll resign from the PM’s post today.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has successfully made first close dive and crossed through the plane of Saturn's rings on Sunday.

Using satellite imagery processed in Google Earth Engine, researchers at Stanford University in the US determined that conflict in Syria caused agricultural irrigation and reservoir storage to decrease by nearly 50 per cent compared to prewar conditions.

"We have never believed and we should not believe that we must develop our economy in isolation from the global economy. The Russian economy has already become an integral part of the global one and it should develop this way," Putin said

South Sudan has seen continuous fighting since its civil war broke out in December 2013. The more than 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers are already in the country.

US President-elect Donald Trump is already seen to have differences with the outgoing Barack Obama administration over the China Policy.

On Monday night a gas explosion occurred at a mine in central China's Hubei province after which 11 Chinese coal miners are being trapped underground.

Recently President Barack Obama blocked the Chinese purchase of a German maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment stating it as a security risk.

The meeting will be an opportunity for the two leaders to "review our joint efforts over the past four years to strengthen the US-Japan alliance, including our close cooperation on a number of security, economic, and global challenges," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.

Brandy Vela shot herself through the chest in front of her stunned family members at their Texas home with a gun which her family members begged her to put down. Brandy, who was a high school senior, had sent her family a text message before shooting herself that read, "I love you so much, please remember that, and I'm sorry for everything." Her pa

The small city is holding a huge funeral to honour its team, Chapecoense Real -- an unsung club having a fairytale season until the plane flying it to the biggest match in its history ran out of fuel and smashed into the mountains outside Medellin on Monday night.

The latest death toll is an increase by 19 over the figure announced by officials a day after the attack, which targeted Shiite pilgrims.

Iran said that the Congress’s decision to renew US sanctions is a violation of their last year’s nuclear deal also said the US sanctions legislation "does exist but its effect has been currently neutralised by the US president".