Politics

(AFP) - Ending aid to Ukraine would mark a rupture of US leadership and a fracturing of NATO, warned experts including former secretary of state Hillary Clinton who raised the...

(AFP) - US senators cleared a first hurdle Thursday to a sweeping foreign aid package -- including a $60 billion lifeline for Ukraine -- although opposition from right-wing allies of...

Kumasi (Ghana) (AFP) - A California museum on Thursday returned seven royal artefacts to Ghana’s traditional Ashanti king to commemorate his silver jubilee in the first planned handovers of Ashanti...

(AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that the country's banking system is "well-capitalized" even as some banks face stresses stemming from the commercial real estate sector. Yellen...

San Francisco (AFP) - US regulators on Thursday declared scam "robocalls" made using voices created with artificial intelligence (AI) as illegal. The phenomenon gained attention last month when a robocall...

(AFP) - US senators scrambled Thursday to salvage a multi-billion-dollar aid package for embattled Ukraine that was hanging by a thread as Republican resistance deadlocked negotiations. Ahead of a crucial...

(AFP) - Israel's armed forces stepped up air strikes on Gaza's far-southern Rafah on Thursday as fears of ground fighting grew among the more than one million Palestinians crowded into...

(AFP) - US President Joe Biden will host Jordan's King Abdullah II in Washington on Monday for talks on resolving the Israel-Hamas conflict, the White House said. The meeting comes...

(AFP) - Ukraine urged the West on Wednesday to speed up and increase deliveries of artillery shells after a new Russian missile attack on Kyiv and other regions killed four...

(AFP) - US President Joe Biden has confused a European leader with a dead predecessor for the second time in a week, telling a campaign event he met Helmut Kohl...