A senior US State Department official has said that Kashmir is a “direct issue” between India and Pakistan and the US has no interest in “asserting” itself between the two countries on the affair.

The leader of Moldova’s pro-European ruling party is blunt about the stakes in Sunday’s tense parliamentary election: a continued path toward the European Union or a country brought back under Russia’s orbit.

A man convicted of killing a gas station clerk is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama, one of two executions scheduled in the United States on Thursday.

Progress for wind projects in the UK and Taiwan have bucked the trend of an expected drop in offshore wind turbine generator awards this year.