Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday told local media that the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is unchangeable, saying the new treaty will promote strategic stability between Russia and the United States if put into force.

International observers have voiced different views on Belarus' presidential election, with the majority saying the Sunday vote was legitimate, free and democratic, but others disagreed.

Police responded to two false bomb alarms in New York and at nearby Newark airport Monday as jitters grew over security during the busy end-of-year holiday season.

North Korea Monday forswore retaliation against a South Korean live-fire drill and held out an olive branch over its nuclear drive, raising hopes for an easing to the region's worst crisis in years.

The UN Security Council on Sunday failed to reach a consensus on the crisis of the Korean Peninsula after eight hours of closed-door consultations, due to the gaps among the council members, diplomats said here.

Thousands of Thailand's "Red Shirts" gathered in Bangkok Sunday to mark seven months since a deadly military crackdown on their anti-government protest.

Hundreds of Christmas travellers faced a third day stranded at London's Heathrow airport Monday as arctic conditions sparked fresh flight delays and cancellations.

Cuban health authorities introduced the first vaccine to treat advanced lung cancer in all of the country's clinics, a health official said here Thursday.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution to lift the Saddam-era sanctions against Iraq, which was imposed in 1991.

A total of 38 people were killed and 50 others were wounded in a suicide attack in southeastern Iran on Wednesday, the local satellite Press TV reported.

Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi has won a vote of confidence in the Senate but must now face a second vote in the lower house.

French police on Monday arrested a young man who had taken some 20 kindergarten kids hostage in an eastern city before releasing all of them.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he was deeply worried by North Korea's capacity to enrich uranium which could be used to make nuclear weapons.

The WTO on Monday rejected China's complaint against punitive US tariffs on Chinese tyres, a landmark ruling on safeguards invoked by Washington against disruptive imports from the Asian giant.

A winter storm brought snow and bone-chilling wind to Chicago Sunday morning, causing more than 1, 000 flights to be canceled, according to local media.