Deputy US Secretary of State and envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun ended two days of talks with Japanese counterparts on a path toward resuming dialogue with Pyongyang and leveraging the US-Japan alliance to maintain security throughout the Indo-Pacific region, the State Department said in a readout of the visit on Friday

Russia is open to multilateral arms control talks, but the composition of countries involved should be balanced, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday

China is urging the United States to respond to Russia's offer of extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a briefing on Friday

Russian and US experts on space will meet at the end of July as part of a working group in Vienna, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday

Risks of a nuclear confrontation have been rising lately, as the United States has given up on strategic stability as a term, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday