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Appearing on MSNBC’s “Way Too Early,” foreign relations expert Richard Haass noted reports coming out of Ukraine that Russian soldiers are sabotaging their own vehicles because they don’t want to take part in the invasion is a bad omen for

With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history. Dhaka muslin was stitched from threads so fine that popular folklore in

As talks to revive Iran nuclear agreement in home stretch, Chris Murphy says US doesn’t have luxury of bringing back conditions under which accord was signed due to Trump pull-out

Around 700 athletes are competing in this year’s events, which run through March 13. Here’s what to expect and how to watch. (Image credit: Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Russian forces reportedly seized control of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant on Friday shortly after a fire broke out at the facility, intensifying global fears of a massive and unprecedented radioactive disaster. “Fallout doesn’t respect borders. This would be an

The Cold War rivals have grown much closer in recent years. But China’s ties to Russia are now becoming a bigger liability than Beijing expected. (Image credit: Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

The United States has returned a set of illegally obtained artifacts, including a skull from the Parisian catacombs and golden ingots from an Atlantic shipwreck, to their rightful owner — the French state. The prized objects, which also included an

Blast in northwestern city of Peshawar wounds some 65 others, many of them critically; gunmen opened fire on worshippers before detonating device; no claim of responsibility

Ukrainian delegation escapes war zone to make it to games in four-day journey; athletes from Belarus also banned

The Japanese government and local companies are sticking with their Russian energy deals, defying a pullout led by Western companies.