Moscow was ready to normalize dialogue with Washington, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister stated, if Washington would abandon confrontational approach with Moscow.
The UK would have to continue providing funds for long-term programs to the EU until 2020, even after the country leaves the bloc earlier, EU Budget Commisson revealed.
A Japan's foreign ministry spokesman welcomed tougher UN sanctions on North Korea after its missile tests and stressed more pressure on Pyongyang, rather than dialogue.
The Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel said on Sunday that the city plans to sue the Trump Administration the following day over a threat to withhold certain grant funds.
Carla del Ponte, a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, is to resign due to lack of political support in the Syrian conflict from the UN Security Council.
On Sunday, the US Vice President Mike Pence rejected as "disgraceful and offensive" a report made by The New York Times that claimed he would run for the US presidency in 2020.
The Social Democrats rejected spending 2% of Germany's GDP on NATO defence, thus criticising the Merkel-led CDU/CSU alliance on obeying the US demands.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the US was ready to continue its dialogue with Russia on complex matters, even despite weakened bilateral relations.
The revenues of Suez Canal, the fastest European-Asian shipping route, rose to $446.3M in July, thus amounting to $2.94B in the first half of 2017.
The Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara explained on Sunday that the country plans to shut down local operations of Al-Jazeera due to its alleged support of terrorism.
The government of the German state of Lower Saxony dismissed on Sunday allegations that its Premier Stephan Weil had softened his stance towards Volkswagen.
Having been sworn in for his second term as the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani accused the US of attempting to undermine the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
China's e-commerce firm Alibaba and France's luxury company Kering announced they would work together to fight against intellectual property rights infringement.
Local police reported on Sunday afternoon that seventy seven Chinese telephone fraud suspects had been repatriated from Fiji.
On Sunday, Myanmar denied allegations of committing crimes against humanity during a clampdown against Rohingya Muslims back in 2016.
Israeli authorities offered asylum to a Turkey-based blogger of Iranian descent who is believed to be forcibly deported to Iran, where she could be at risk for working for an Israeli news agency.
The senior Xinjiang official Zhang Jinbiao was removed from his position following a probe that revealed he had not been doing enough to fight extremism.
Venezuela's new pro-government assembly has fired the country's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega over alleged "commission of serious misconduct".
According to sources familiar with the matter, at least seven people have been killed by an unknown suicide bomber in the town of Amchide, northern Cameroon.
Hassan Rouhani was sworn in as the Iranian President for the second term and pledged to continue constructive interactive with the international community.
The Chinese Foreign Minister told his North Korean counterpart that Pyongyang had to stop carrying out nuclear and missile tests, hours after new sanctions were adopted by the UN.
Japan marked the 72nd anniversary of the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima. The city's Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged nuclear states, as well as Japan, to join the nuclear weapon ban treaty adopted by the UN.
Foreign ministers from the ASEAN and China approved the Code of Conduct framework in the South China Sea, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.
The US President Donald Trump expressed appreciation to Russia and China for support in approval of the resolution of a sanctions regime against North Korea by the UN Security Council.