Politics

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - When the United States suddenly moved to dismantle its foreign aid system earlier this year, the UN's landmine safety and removal project in Nigeria braced for...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is "not allowed" to run for a third term, acknowledging the limits laid out in the US Constitution. Trump and his supporters...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump voiced optimism Wednesday on the eve of crunch trade talks with China's Xi Jinping, while also announcing that a deal with South Korea was...

(AFP) - The US Federal Reserve is almost certain to cut interest rates for a second straight meeting on Wednesday, and could also shed light on what it will do...

(AFP) - While the American military blows up boats it claims are transporting drugs from Venezuela, observers say tankers shipping Venezuelan oil in violation of a US embargo continue to...

(AFP) - The White House has fired all six members of an independent federal agency that reviews construction work in Washington, US media reported Tuesday, as President Donald Trump pushes...

(AFP) - Trinidad and Tobago, in a deepening diplomatic row with Caracas over US military activity in the Caribbean, was on Tuesday mulling a "mass deportation" of undocumented migrants --...

Aboard Air Force One (AFP) - US President Donald Trump headed Wednesday for South Korea, where a key meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping could produce a truce in the...

(AFP) - A 65-year-old man convicted of raping and murdering his neighbor was executed by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday. Norman Grim had dropped appeals against his death sentence...

Lagos (AFP) - The US consulate in Lagos has revoked the visa of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said Tuesday. "I want to assure the consulate