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A train is ready on the station during the handover ceremony of the high-speed rail project in Vientiane, Laos, connecting the city with Kunming, China, on Dec. 3, 2021.

With U.S. focused on defense, China's trade and infrastructure sweep Southeast Asia

The Biden administration hopes to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia but lags far behind China, which has already built up major trade ties, as well as roads and a high-speed rail.

In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks with Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu as she arrives in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, despite threats from Beijing of serious consequences, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China in 25 years.

Pelosi has landed in Taiwan. Here's why that's a big deal

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making an unannounced, but widely anticipated, stop in Taiwan. The move is expected to increase already heightened tensions between the U.S. and China.

Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 23, 2022.

U.S. promises new aid to Ukraine in fight against Russia

U.S. officials say Washington had approved a $165 million sale of ammunition for Ukraine's war effort, along with more than $300 million in foreign military financing.

Demonstrators wave Ukraine national flags as they gather in central Kyiv on Oct. 6, 2019, to protest broader autonomy for separatist territories, part of a plan to end a war with Russian-backed fighters. Protesters chanted "No to surrender!", with some holding placards critical of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the crowd, which police said had swelled to around 10,000 people.

Russia's at war with Ukraine. Here's how we got here

Since breaking from the Soviet Union, Ukraine has wavered between the influences of Moscow and the West, surviving scandal and conflict with its democracy intact. Now it faces an existential threat.

Russian demonstrators hold anti-American posters outside the U.S. Embassy in 2015. From the 1960s through the 1980s, the U.S. said the Soviet Union beamed microwave signals at the U.S. Embassy in an attempt to collect intelligence.

Long before Havana Syndrome, the U.S. reported microwaves beamed at an embassy

In the 1970s and '80s, U.S. officials routinely referred to the Soviet use of microwave radiation against the American Embassy in Moscow. The Soviets were believed to be seeking intelligence.

Smoke and flame rise near a military building after an apparent Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa as world leaders decried the start of an Russian invasion that could cause massive casualties and topple Ukraine's democratically elected government.

Archive: Ukraine live updates from February to March

This is an archive of the Ukraine live updates blog from February to March.

President Biden and China's Xi set to have their 1st formal meeting as leaders

Monday night, President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will hold a virtual summit. It will be their first formal meeting since Biden became president.

People inspect the rubble of a residential building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday.

Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens, Topple Buildings In Gaza City

The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 42 people died Sunday and more than 50 people were wounded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were continuing at "full force."

People protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine at a demonstration in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday.

World leaders fine-tune punitive measures against Russia

A growing number of world leaders are preparing responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine that include both sanctions and humanitarian aid.

This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says a test launch of a hypersonic missile on Tuesday in North Korea.

U.S. hits North Korean officials with sanctions after missile test

The U.S. is also proposing U.N. sanctions in response to North Korea's six ballistic missile launches since September, each of which it says "were in violation of UN Security Council resolutions."

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