Politics

(AFP) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, hoping to avoid one of the US president's infamous ambushes amid discord over Ukraine and...

(AFP) - The US trade deficit more than halved in April as President Donald Trump's global tariffs reversed an import surge that preceded the new duties. The White House is...

(AFP) - The Trump administration intends to pull some $4 billion in federal funding from California's long-delayed high-speed rail project, transportation officials say. The announcement Wednesday by the Department of...

(AFP) - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Thursday that NATO allies were close to a deal on spending ahead of a summit later this month, in a bid...

Tehran (AFP) - A year out from kick-off, Iranian football fans are watching their World Cup dream slip away after a US travel ban barred them from entering the land...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Social media outlet Reddit filed a lawsuit Wednesday against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing the startup of illegally scraping millions of user comments to...

(AFP) - US defence chief Pete Hegseth on Thursday pushed NATO to agree a deal on increasing military spending that could satisfy President Donald Trump at a summit this month....

Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - US defence chief Pete Hegseth will seek on Thursday to drive home a deal on ramping up NATO defence spending that can satisfy President Donald Trump...

(AFP) - A Ukrainian military officer told the United States on Wednesday that Russian forces are preparing major advances into next year, including aiming to cut off Black Sea access,...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump ramped up his campaign against top US universities Wednesday, banning visas for all foreign students coming to attend Harvard and threatening to strip Columbia of...