politics

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday became Japan’s first leader to visit the Australian city of Darwin since it was bombed by Japanese forces during World War Two, underlining the strength of their crucial alliance

A new dispute has erupted between the United States and its European allies over core defense and political issues in the backdrop of the landmark 100th anniversary of the end of First World War

While Brussels choreographs the first withdrawal of a sovereign state from the EU, May must now try to get the deal approved by her cabinet and, in the toughest test of all, by parliament

Bulgaria, which lies on one of the main migratory routes from the Middle East to western Europe, says it is already taking steps to stop illegal migration and protect the EU’s external borders

World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will gather in Paris on Sunday to commemorate the armistice of November 11, 1918

Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives and although the Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate, the White House will have to negotiate in several issues or face the risk of gridlock during the next two years

The party already faced challenges in trying to grow beyond its base of middle-class Trump supporters, white men, and evangelicals. It has lost ground among women, suburban voters, voters with college degrees, while showing little ability to win over young and minority voters

Lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election, promising to clean up politics, shrink the state, and crack down on crime, in a dramatic swing away from the left in the world’s fourth-largest democracy

Sahle-Work Zewde replaces Mulatu Teshome Wirtu, who tendered his resignation to parliament earlier on Wednesday

With the country deeply polarized under President Donald Trump, the packages brought a new level of tension to November 6 political contests that will decide whether Democrats can challenge the majorities now held by Trump’s Republicans in Congress