This year's U.N. gathering of world leaders put an immediate spotlight Tuesday on deep differences on tackling crises from North Korea to global warming: France's president urged world leaders to work together, while America's emphasized nations' own sovereignty. And U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the threat of a nuclear attack ...
The federal government Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year's presidential election. The ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May, trying on Friday to reassure business and reset the tone of stalled exit negotiations with ...
Iran will strengthen its missile capabilities and not seek any country's permission, President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday, rejecting demands from U.S. President Donald Trump. Rouhani spoke at a military parade where an Iranian news agency said one of the weapons on display was a ...
Focus A subtle diplomat like Talleyrand, Donald Trump is not. The U.S. president, in his first foray at the U.N. General Assembly, derided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "rocket man ... on a suicide mission" and delivered an unabashed defense of nationalism at ...
The United States sees value in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia, despite Washington's concerns about Moscow's track record on arms control and other issues, senior U.S. officials said Friday. The remarks by the Trump administration officials, speaking to reporters on ...
Sen. John McCain on Friday declared his opposition to the GOP's last-ditch effort to repeal and replace "Obamacare," dealing a likely death blow to the legislation and, perhaps, to the Republican Party's years of vows to kill the program. It was the second time ...
Kenya's electoral commission on Thursday postponed a rerun of the presidential vote to Oct. 26, giving itself nine extra days to fix problems that had caused the first poll to be annulled. The decision came a day after the Supreme Court issued a detailed judgment ...
Donald Trump doesn't embody Western values in the way that previous presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama did, according to Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the U.S. who now heads the Munich Security Conference. "We are losing that symbol of ...
Abolishing militant hideouts in Pakistan is critical to establishing peace in neighboring Afghanistan, the Afghan leader said Thursday before meeting President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Neither Trump nor Afghan President Ashraf Ghani mentioned Pakistan when they appeared publicly together ...
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of investigators is seeking information from the White House related to Michael Flynn's stint as national security adviser and about the response to a meeting with a Russian lawyer that was attended by President Donald Trump's oldest son, The ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aiming to tighten an economic noose around North Korea, days after he threatened to "totally destroy" the country if forced to defend the United States or its allies. The new order enables the U.S. to sanction individual ...
Russia on Thursday issued a stern warning to U.S. forces and their allies in Syria, saying it has deployed Russian special forces alongside Syrian government troops in the battle for the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province and that Moscow would retaliate if the Russians come ...
In the middle of Donald Trump's presidential run, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he was willing to provide "private briefings" about the campaign to a Russian billionaire the U.S. government considers close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Manafort's offer was memorialized in an email exchange ...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya minority amounted to "genocide. France will work with other members of the U.N. Security Council for a condemnation of "this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing," Macron said in an interview with the ...
