MOSCOW, Jan 30: More than a week into a standoff with the opposition, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday that he is willing to negotiate.

LOS ANGELES, July 22: A woman was shot and killed when a gunman ran into a busy Los Angeles supermarket where he held dozens of people hostage for about three hours Saturday before handcuffing himself and surrendering to police. No hostages were seriously hurt.

US president Donald Trump’s decision to go ahead and impose 25 per cent tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports is the latest salvo in the four-month standoff the country’s been having with its key trade partners.

ST. PETERSBURG, Mar 17: Russia’s government is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further measures in retaliation in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain.

KATHMANDU, Jan 4: Even a month after the conclusion of the provincial elections, the formation of provincial government in Province 2 still remains uncertain as the two biggest Madhes-based parties in the race for chief minister have yet to start formal discussion on power-sharing.

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday flew into South Korea, the closest he has come to the frontlines of the nuclear standoff with North Korea, saying a solution must be found to the security threat posed by Pyongyang.

SEOUL, August 21: U.S. and South Korean troops kicked off their annual drills Monday that come after President Donald Trump and North Korea exchanged warlike rhetoric in the wake of the North’s two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month.

NEW DELHI, July 25: It was the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan that sounded the alarm: Chinese soldiers had arrived with bulldozers and excavators, and were building a high-mountain road near India's border — in an area the two nuclear-armed Asian giants have disputed for decades.

Himalayan border standoff

Players in Qatar-Saudi standoff

Infographics: Players in Qatar-Saudi standoff

MOSCOW, June 10: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told Qatar on Saturday of its concern over Arab nations cutting ties with the Gulf state and called for talks to solve the crisis.