Politics

Republicans dropped conservative hard-liner Jim Jordan as their nominee to lead the US House of Representatives in a secret ballot Friday after he failed to secure victory on the floor...

Joe Biden heads to the Middle East on potentially the riskiest trip of his presidency Tuesday, aiming to thread the needle between supporting Israel against Hamas, averting catastrophe in Gaza...

Republicans inched Tuesday toward appointing a new speaker of the US House of Representatives, with support coalescing around a fierce Donald Trump partisan to fill a void that has paralyzed...

Former president Donald Trump returned to his New York civil fraud trial on Tuesday and complained about a partial gag order imposed on him by a judge in a separate...

Beijing (AFP) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed his "dear friend" Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing on Tuesday, kicking off a multilateral summit overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war. Beijing...

Moscow (AFP) - Russian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to revoke Moscow's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, moving closer to abandoning a landmark agreement that outlaws the testing...

Nicosia (AFP) - A first group of evacuees from Israel arrived in Cyprus on Tuesday aboard a US-chartered cruise ship as the island's authorities announced plans for a twice-daily ferry...

Shanghai (AFP) - China will this week weigh into the Israel-Hamas war by sending its special envoy to the Middle East, after the United States asked it to use its...

US President Joe Biden will pay a solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday following the Hamas attacks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced, as he cited progress persuading the US...

US President Joe Biden will visit Israel Wednesday in a show of "ironclad" support as Washington tries to prevent the escalating war against Hamas in Gaza from spilling into a...