Politics & Government News

12:59 PM on Tuesday, June 2

President Donald Trump on Monday adjusted tariffs on some steel, aluminum and copper imports, lowering some tariffs on farming equipment and extending tariffs on other equipment

11:54 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Two of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed militias say they will start handing in their weapons to authorities

11:23 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Zimbabwe’s justice minister has introduced a constitutional amendment bill to extend the tenure of the country's 83-year-old president and change the election process

11:01 AM on Tuesday, June 2

10:00 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Senegal's ousted Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko says his party will not join the new government, escalating tensions with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye

9:57 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Prosecutors have detailed how the estranged husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon embezzled more than 400,000 pounds from the Scottish National Party

9:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

The British government is sticking to its net-zero goal despite global conflicts affecting energy supplies

8:38 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Cambodia has filed for compulsory conciliation under a U.N. maritime law agreement to resolve a sea border dispute with Thailand

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5:34 AM on Tuesday, June 2

A bear has injured four people in a Japanese residential area in the latest case of attacks by the animals in the region

4:45 AM on Tuesday, June 2

The European Union has agreed on a major overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to increase deportations and establish detention centers abroad

3:45 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility

3:04 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark’s prime minister by leading a center-left coalition of four parties

7:33 PM on Monday, June 1

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is failing Jewish Canadians and the community is being brutally targeted by hate

4:12 PM on Monday, June 1

President Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to move forward with a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said Monday

7:45 AM on Monday, June 1

Pro-Trump lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella has taken the lead in Colombia’s presidential race after the first round of elections over the weekend

7:22 AM on Monday, June 1

India says it will continue engaging with Myanmar after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with the leader of the neighboring country’s military-backed government

Sunday, May 31

Tough-on-crime outsider Abelardo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia’s presidential race in the first round of voting Sunday night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election