A Moscow court has sentenced a former US diplomat to 14 years in prison for "large-scale" cannabis smuggling, the latest American to be caught up in Russia's legal system.

The diplomat -- described as the defence attache in an earlier report -- departed Islamabad late on Monday, a senior Pakistani government official said.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed the prospect of talks with North Korea as a waste of time a day after his own secretary of state said the United States was maintaining open lines of communication ...

Protesters dragged a wounded police officer out of an ambulance and killed him yesterday in an area of southern Nepal...