Turkey is following the aftermath of the killing of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad with great concern because it seems like this tension will not end here, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Sunday. 'Killing a high-ranking commander of a country, a state, would not b…

The USTR said in an official notice that on 1 September, US Customs and Border Protection agency will begin collecting a 15 per cent tariff on a portion of the list that contains over $US125 billion of targeted goods from China, including smartwatches, Bluetooth headphones, flat-panel television…

The move, by the opposition Labour party, creates a large parliamentary majority against oil exploration in the sensitive offshore area, illustrating growing opposition to the polluting fossil fuel, which has made the country one of the world’s most affluent.Labour’s opposition, announced by its…

Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Donald Trump's D.C. hotel within a month of Trump's election in 2016.

Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Donald Trump's D.C. hotel within a month of Trump's el…

Trump bellicosity and a volatile global economy has spurred the ditching of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency. China is eager the Yuan to replace it.

In January, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce Pakistan’s commitment to fighting terrorism. Twenty-four hours later,…

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to allow children to stay with parents caught crossing the border illegally -- moving to stop the family separations that have triggered a national outcry and political crisis for Republicans.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he would be signing an executive order later Wednesday that would end the process of separating children from families after they are

Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents.

The president suggested Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy was responsible for rising crime and causing Germans to turn against their leaders.

After criticism of the policy, Donald Trump blamed the Democrats for the "horrible law".

He added: “We’re ready to adapt and we’re ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads. It probably will, it possibly will. It could be at a very small level, or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens we’re totally prepared.”

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Aditya Singh and his wife Poonam first moved to the the outskirts of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan after he quit his job in civil services back in 1998. After they fell in love with the landscape, they moved onto a nearby property so they could fulfill their dream of being closer to…

But since Trump became president, the US has been pushing for the withdrawal from global agreements – such as the Paris climate accord – creating new tension between him and other world leaders, nations, and global institutions, particularly in the West.

Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign…

As a wall goes up alongside a slum area containing 2,000 people, one resident asks: "Why are they hiding us poor people?"

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Dr Iain Staffell of Imperial College London, the lead author of the Electric Insights report, said: “In the past decade, we’ve seen unprecedented changes in Britain’s power system, which has transformed at a speed never seen before.

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Mousavi appeared to be referring to the Electoral College, the archaic system the U.S. uses to elect its president every four years. Two of the last three presidents—George W. Bush and Donald Trump—have lost the popular vote yet won the presidential election thanks to the Electoral College.

Mass melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was a major cause of high sea levels during a period known as the Last Interglacial (129,000-116,000 years ago), an international team of scientists led by UNSW’s Chris Turney has found. The research was published today in Proceedings of the National …

Paul Parker told Channel Ten’s The Project on Sunday that he was chastised by the RFS for directing the expletive toward Scott Morrison and that he had been booted from the organisation, contrary to reports from the time that he had been stood down due to exhaustion.

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Xu Zhiyong, a former law lecturer and founder of the social campaign New Citizens Movement, was taken away by police on Saturday evening while he was seeking refuge at the home of a lawyer in the southern city of Guangzhou, activists Ye Du and Hua Ze said.

His host Yang Bin, her husband …

Even after the acquittal of the president, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is pursuing allegations of corruption in Ukraine. This past week, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department would "carefully scrutinize" what Giuliani finds. Last July, President Trump made the phone call to Uk…

Transcripts of two FBI officials closed-door congressional interviews reveal agency officials were looking into President Trump's relationship with Russia.

In the chaotic aftermath at the FBI following Director James Comey's firing, a half-dozen senior FBI officials huddled to set in mot…

President Donald Trump's assertions about the U.S.-China agreement to pause tariff escalations that emerged over the weekend do not appear to match the White House's official description of the agreement.

Following the conclusion of the G-20 summit in Argentina, the U.S. leader described…

Multiple Chinese warships shadowed the two US vessels during the transit in a move certain to anger Beijing.

The USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Antietam conducted a routine transit on Monday to demonstrate US commitment "to a free and open Indo-Pacific", Commander Nate Christensen, deputy spo…

Aliaga, Turkey (CNN)A Turkish court has freed US pastor Andrew Brunson two years after he was detained, charged with helping to plot a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The case had soured relations between Turkey and the United States, heightened by President Donald Trump's d…

ATLANTA (AP) — Casey Cagle and Brian Kemp have run to the Trumpian right as they try to win Georgia Republicans’ nomination for governor in a Tuesday runoff.

The administration unveiled the short-term bailout for tariff-hit farmers hours after President Trump proclaimed on Twitter: "Tariffs are the greatest!"

Robert Driscoll, the lawyer for accused Russian spy Maria Butina, took aim at the Department of Justice on Sunday, telling Fox News exclusively that investigators charged her on technicalities after a lengthy surveillance operation because they didn't want to have to follow her to South Dakota.<…

President Donald Trump seeks damage control a day after his much criticized news conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

The vote on the compromise bill was postponed to Friday amid member confusion about its content.

The government said on Friday that 1,995 children were separated from 1,940 adults at the U.S.-Mexico border between April 19 and May 31, as the Trump administration implements stricter border enforcement policies.