South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has arrived in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, on a landmark visit and to attend a three-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

North Korean's Kim Jong Un greeted Moon Jae-in with hugs and smiles on Tuesday as the South Korean president arrived in Pyongyang to discuss faltering talks on denuclearization and the prospect of officially ending the Korean War.

UN member-states on Friday agreed on a global plan to step up the fight against tuberculosis, the world's number one killer among infectious diseases, settling a row with the US over access to cheap drugs.

Mayors, governors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors and celebrities delivered a double-edged message on Friday at the close of a climate summit in San Francisco: Global warming is making the planet unlivable — but we know how to fix it.

Presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey issued a joint statement and emphasized their strong and continued commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and highlighted that they should be respected by all.

It is the world's number one killer among infectious diseases, but tuberculosis has been eclipsed by HIV/AIDS as a focus of global attention and donor funding.

Russian Presidential Office Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday the Russian, Iranian and Turkish heads of state are expected to meet in Tehran in the first ten days of September.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "at an early date", the North's state media reported Wednesday, amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula.

North and South Korea agreed on Monday to hold a summit in the North in September, another step toward boosting cooperation between the old rivals.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani plans to visit Kazakhstan on Saturday to participate in the Caspian Sea Summit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he had invited US President Donald Trump to Moscow and that both he and Trump were ready for further summits, but that conditions needed to be right for a meeting to take place.

Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a historic summit on Monday vowing their determination to forge a reset of troubled relations between the world's greatest nuclear powers.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in the Chinese capital of Beijing for talks with President Xi Jinping and is likely to brief President Xi on his summit last week with US President Donald Trump.

International Desk

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have arrived in Singapore, two days ahead of a much-anticipated summit that could ultimately resolve a persisting crisis in the Korean Peninsula over the North’s controversial nuclear and ballistic missile programs.