Politics

(AFP) - Republicans in the US Senate on Wednesday blocked a bill recognizing a legal right to contraception, introduced as part of a Democratic effort to highlight threats to reproductive...

Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticised the West's delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine, arguing Moscow could arm other countries with similar weapons to attack...

(AFP) - A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday froze all proceedings in the election interference case against former US president Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the southern state. Trump,...

(AFP) - Joe Biden is looking to convince voters of his leadership credentials with a striking flurry of major announcements on Gaza, Ukraine and the Mexican border, analysts say. In...

New York (AFP) - New York dropped  a controversial plan Wednesday that would have charged drivers to enter central Manhattan, amid criticism that it would hit businesses and poorer motorists...

(AFP) - Donald Trump is now a felon. Here's what that means for the rights of the former US president -- the first ever convicted of a crime -- as...

(AFP) - Jurors at Hunter Biden's trial for allegedly buying a handgun while using crack cocaine heard testimony Wednesday from his ex-wife who recalled finding a crack pipe in their...

Saint-Lô (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hailed the "spirit of sacrifice" of the soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazi occupation, as he prepared to join US...

(AFP) - With his claims that he is a political prisoner and that his enemies want him dead, Donald Trump's campaign mail-outs have begun to read as much like the...

Paris (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Wednesday began a state visit to France marking 80 years since the World War II D-Day landings, with a new war shadowing...