China said on Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz is a vital corridor for international trade in goods and energy, and that maintaining security, stability and unimpeded passage in the area serves the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Vilma Jää enrolled at the Sibelius Academy to study folk music she never expected to end up playing a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas. Kaija Saariaho ...

India on Wednesday welcomed the two-week ceasefire agreement reached between Iran, the United States and Israel, reiterating its long-standing call for de-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy to end the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian by telephone. She conveyed Japan's stance that quick de-escalation of the situation is most important, ...

Albany Mayor Dorcey Applyrs’ decision to hire a lobbying firm to represent the city at the state Capitol is appropriate only in the sense that it was finalized near the start of baseball season, ...

• Follow the latest updates on the war with Iran here. All US ships, aircraft, weapons, military personnel will remain “in place, in and around, Iran” until a full agreement is reached, US President ...

ALBANY — U.S. Rep. Paul D. Tonko is among multiple congressional Democrats calling for President Donald J. Trump to be impeached for what he described in a Tuesday news release as “genocidal talk from ...

Officials in Sunday’s Warriors-Rockets game missed two calls that should have gone Golden State’s way, the league announced Monday. The NBA highlighted these blown calls in the last two minute report ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of ...

Lauren Price defended her unified welterweight world championships against Stephanie Pineiro Aquino in Cardiff. Price, an Olympic gold medallist, retained her WBA, IBF and WBC titles by unanimous ...

Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender ...