Russia called on Wednesday for international aid to support Kabul, as it hosted the Taliban at a major international conference on Afghanistan for the first time since the group took power in August. Pakistan, China, Iran, India and former Soviet Central Asian states joined Taliban officials at the Moscow meeting. ...
North Korea successfully tested a “new type” of submarine-launched ballistic missile, state media reported early Wednesday. The device had “lots of advanced control guidance technologies,” the official Korean Central News Agency said, adding the missile was fired from the same vessel that the North used in its first submarine-launched ballistic ...