A US government shutdown is increasingly likely as Democratic Senators refuse to approve the DHS funding bill, following the fatal shooting of a second US citizen by federal agents in Minneapolis. Key...
Venezuela released about 100 detainees classified as political prisoners, pressured by the Trump administration. Despite this, the interim government denies having political prisoners, claiming the de...
US President Donald Trump addressed economic leaders in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, before answering questions. He addressed Greenland, Iran, NATO and the US economy...
Friday marks the fifth day since the last demonstrations in Tehran, FRANCE 24 correspondent Siavosh Ghazi reported from the Iranian capital. He said the news agency Tasnim, which is linked to the Revo...
Protests continue in the US after a second American citizen was killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis. ICE, created in 2002, has been heavily utilized under President Trump’s administration, wit...
The parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who was shot dead by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, issued a written statement decrying top Trump administration officials who suggested the...
South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...
As President Zelensky says today that peace talks are progressing and that a U.S. security guarantee is “100 percent there,” awaiting only formal approval from President Trump, there has so far been n...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s military purge has intensified sharply, with the party now investigating the last two top military officials who had survived earlier crackdowns. The vice chair of the Cent...
US President Donald Trump touched down in a tense Davos on Wednesday to give an "America First" speech that will push his world-shaking bid to seize control of Greenland. Trump's claims over the Danis...
NATO chief Mark Rutte said Wednesday "thoughtful diplomacy" was needed to deal with tensions over Greenland, as President Donald Trump headed to Davos pushing US claims on the territory. Rutte has sou...
European leaders drew a clear line over Greenland Tuesday, vowing an "unflinching" response to Washington's threats even as US President Donald Trump said he was ready to hold a meeting in Davos about...
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This month, a telling scene unfolded in Addis Ababa. The African Union and China held their ninth strategic dialogue in the Ethiopian capital and launched the 2026 China-Africa Year of People-to-Peopl...
US President Donald Trump's actions during his first year back in office have been "faster and more shocking than we even expected". That's the view of US domestic and foreign policy specialist Laurie...
In addition to women’s rights protests in 2022, experts believe that the protests currently happening in Iran represent the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its founding in 1979. While ...
Greenland’s prime minister said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as US President Do...
As US President Donald Trump’s tariff increases have roiled global markets and strained America’s alliances in recent months, China has been pursuing the opposite strategy: keeping import duties low a...
Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White...
The administration of US President Donald Trump is halting visa processing for people from more than 70 countries, the US State Department has confirmed to the Post. “The State Department is pausing i...