Politics

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Thursday delayed some tariffs targeting Canada and Mexico, leading Ottawa to halt an upcoming wave of countermeasures -- offering a reprieve to...

(AFP) - California Governor Gavin Newsom expressed opposition Wednesday to transgender women competing in women's sports, becoming the highest profile Democrat to break from the party's stance on trans rights....

(AFP) - EU leaders rallied around Ukraine and agreed to boost the bloc's defences at a crisis summit Thursday, as Washington said talks with Kyiv were back on track to...

(AFP) - Unprecedented direct talks between the US and Hamas are a sign of dysfunction in fraught negotiations to prolong a truce in Gaza, analysts said Thursday. Washington revealed it...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump boasts he has brought illegal border crossings into the United States to record lows, but experts say the reasons for the drop go beyond his...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump responded Thursday to growing criticism over unprecedented cuts to the US government overseen by his billionaire advisor Elon Musk, saying they should be carefully targeted....

(AFP) - President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order instructing his newly confirmed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the department she now leads, US media has...

(AFP) - The US House of Representatives censured Texas Democrat Al Green on Thursday after he was thrown out of the chamber for repeatedly interrupting President Donald Trump's address to...

Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump said this week that Japan and South Korea were looking to work with the United States on a "gigantic" natural gas pipeline in Alaska. Here's what we know about the...

(AFP) - Volodymyr Zelensky thanked EU leaders Thursday for standing by Ukraine's side, as the bloc held crisis talks on confronting US President Donald Trump's pivot away from Kyiv and...