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Hundreds of refugees being held at a remote Papua New Guinea detention camp will be moved by October despite uncertainty ...

John McCain, the Arizona senator and former Republican presidential candidate, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. A brain tumor known ...

Facing a crisis in Venezuela, US President Donald Trump has threatened to inflict "swift and strong" economic sanctions unless President ...

Veteran US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, has been diagnosed with ...

The United States and China have agreed to cooperate on reducing the trade deficit in the first round of economic ...

The Central Intelligence Agency is shutting down its program to support rebels fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Washington ...

President Donald Trump made a last-ditch bid to salvage a central campaign pledge Wednesday, deploying a mix of threats and ...

Negotiations on reworking North America's landmark free trade pact will begin next month in Washington, US officials announced Wednesday. The ...

Five UN peacekeepers' bases in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to close at the end of July, the UN ...

Saudi Arabia's national carrier said a US ban on laptops and tablets in the cabins of its US-bound planes had ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Tehran would "respond appropriately" to new US sanctions but that Iran remained committed ...

Donald Trump's first six months in the White House have been a riot of scandal, chaos and outrage that -- ...

After riding a wave of anti-trade feeling to the White House, the Trump administration is taking a more traditional approach ...

Global stock markets were pressured Tuesday by worries about President Donald Trump's agenda after a proposed health care reform measure ...

An angry President Donald Trump railed Tuesday against dissenters in his party who dashed his months-long effort to dismantle Barack ...

The US slapped fresh sanctions on Iran Tuesday over its ballistic missile program, just hours after Washington admitted the Islamic ...

Iran's parliament voted Tuesday to urgently work towards increasing funds for the country's missile programme and Revolutionary Guards in response ...

Donald Trump backed away from a campaign promise to scrap a major nuclear security deal with Iran on Tuesday, with ...

Two more US Republican senators announced their opposition Monday to their party's efforts to revamp Obamacare, derailing the controversial legislation ...

Iran is receiving "contradictory signals" from the US administration about the fate of the nuclear deal but Foreign Minister Mohammad ...