Politics

(AFP) - President Donald Trump closed out a packed week at the White House after hosting a string of eager-to-please guests, and generating the usual eye-popping menu of news items....

(AFP) - China on Friday vowed to take "all necessary countermeasures" after US President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports -- a...

(AFP) - Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump met Friday to sign a deal on sharing Ukraine's mineral riches and discuss a peace deal with Russia, despite the US president recently...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump's abrupt pivot to Russia will remould Moscow's ties with China but is unlikely to prise apart its flourishing partnership with Beijing, analysts say. Since...

(AFP) - Five former US defense secretaries on Thursday addressed a letter to lawmakers denouncing as "reckless" the recent firings of senior Pentagon officials by President Donald Trump. Trump this...

(AFP) - From one day to the next Jose Maximino Amaya lost everything: his car, household goods, and the proximity of his three children, from whom he was separated when...

(AFP) - US president Andrew Jackson famously reacted to an unfavorable ruling by the Supreme Court chief justice with the defiant rejoinder: "John Marshall has made his decision, now let...

(AFP) - For a man charged with masterminding an attempted coup and banned from public office, Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro appears remarkably serene about his political future. As...

Washington (AFP) - Hundreds of scientists and experts have been fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a leading US agency responsible for weather forecasting, climate analysis, marine...

(AFP) - Mexico on Thursday extradited some of its most notorious imprisoned drug lords to the United States in a bid to avert sweeping tariffs, including a cartel kingpin wanted...