By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Inflation in crisis-prone Argentina accelerated more than expected and for a fifth straight month in January, the country's statistics agency said Tuesday, a closely watched report whose outdated methodology in recent days ...

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow will observe the limits of the last nuclear arms pact with the United States that expired last week as long as it sees that Washington is doing the same, Russia's top diplomat said Wednesday. The New START treaty expired Feb. 5, ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States are weighing holding a second round of talks over Tehran's nuclear program after Israel launched a 12-day war on the country in June and the Islamic Republic carried out a bloody crackdown on ...

By JULHAS ALAM, SHEIKH SAALIQ and AL EMRUN GARJON Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — When Tarique Rahman, the son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh, returned to the country in December after 17 years of self-imposed exile, he declared to his supporters: "I have a ...

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The father of a U.S.-based activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities was convicted Wednesday for attempting to deal with his daughter's financial assets in the city, in the first court case of its kind brought under a homegrown national ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top Iranian security official traveled on Tuesday to Oman, the Mideast sultanate now mediating talks between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program aimed at halting a possible American ...