Politics

(AFP) - Solar and wind farms generated more electricity than coal for the first time on record this year, but US and Chinese policy shifts are slowing growth, putting a...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Noisy TV commercials were banned in California on Monday, with a new law that demands pitchmen turn the volume down. Viewers in the United...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump said Monday he would be "happy" to negotiate a deal on health programs with Democrats, but demanded the federal government first be re-opened, as a...

(AFP) - UNESCO executives voted Monday to make an Egyptian ex-antiquities minister the UN culture body's next leader, as it grapples with accusations of anti-Israel bias that prompted the United...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump threatened Monday to use emergency powers against rebellion to deploy more troops into Democratic-led US cities, intensifying his rhetoric as his attempts to mobilize the...

(AFP) - President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that Venezuela foiled a false flag operation by what he called local terrorists to plant explosives at the US embassy in Caracas and...

(AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a challenge by a Christian therapist to a Colorado law that bans "conversion therapy" for minors who are questioning their...

(AFP) - Delegations from Hamas and Israel on Monday began indirect talks in Egypt on ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza, with US President Donald Trump judging that the...

Geneva (AFP) - The United Nations refugee agency has shed nearly 5,000 jobs this year following swingeing cuts in international aid, its chief said Monday, decrying the "disastrous" political choices...

(AFP) - Venezuela said Monday it had foiled a "false flag operation" by suspected right-wing extremists to plant explosives at the US embassy in Caracas in the midst of a...