Bangladesh and nations in Southeast Asia are welcoming the Group of Seven’s new answer to China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, saying it will be another source for financing their burgeoning infrastructure needs. But because the U.S.-led Build Back Better World Partnership (B3W) initiative is scant in details, officials of …

Russian forces said they fired warning shots Wednesday at a British Royal Navy destroyer taking part in a U.S.-led naval exercise in the Black Sea near Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the action was taken because the HMS Defender entered 3 kilometers …

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed they brought down two U.S.-made drones this week over central Marib province, the scene of heavy fighting between the Iran-backed rebels and forces loyal to the internationally recognized government. The U.S. military said it wasn’t aware of any lost drones in the Mideast and added that …