Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday set sail for New York, heading for a UN summit on a zero-emissions yacht skippered by a member of Monaco’s ruling family.

Disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein has committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on charges that he trafficked girls as young as 14 for sex, US news media reported yesterday.

President Donald Trump said Friday that fellow Republicans will set aside resistance to restricting access to firearms by supporting background checks for people buying weapons in the wake of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to resume denuclearization talks after US-South Korean war games end.

President Donald Trump yesterday said he has received a “very beautiful letter” on Thursday from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and added that he could have another meeting with him.

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticised US treatment of migrants during a visit to Guatemala, and raised doubts about whether the Central American country could cope with a migration deal agreed with the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Joseph Maguire, the current chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become

President Donald Trump said yesterday he was not ready to finalize a trade deal with Beijing and signaled he might cancel talks set for September, raising the stakes in the intensifying US-China trade war.

US officials said that some 680 undocumented migrants were detained in a major series of raids Wednesday at food processing plants in the southeastern United States, part of President Donald Trump’s announced crackdown on illegal immigration.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday downplayed North Korea’s latest missile launches, saying they won’t alter the prospects for negotiations on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons.

Chinese media outlet Global Times reports that Huawei will launch the first commercial devices powered by its in-house operating system this year.

A quarter of the world’s people are just a few dry spells away from facing dangerous water shortages, a US think tank warned

Nations must work together to stop lone wolf attackers, who take inspiration from each other, Nato’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg

President Donald Trump yesterday called for urgent action to prevent gun violence and said all Americans must “condemn racism,

The US and the Taliban were thrashing out elements of a deal to bring a close to Afghanistan’s 18-year conflict at the second day of

A man armed with a rifle opens fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, killing 20 people and wounding 26 others as panicked shoppers and employees scurried for cover before the gunman surrendered to police at the scene.

President Donald Trump on Friday dropped his choice of John Ratcliffe to be US spy chief after questions arose about the

A majority of Democrats in the US House of Representatives now favor launching impeachment proceedings against Republican President

President Donald Trump drops his choice of John Ratcliffe to be US spy chief after questions arose about the congressman's lack of experience and possible exaggerations in his resume, marking the latest upheaval over a top national security post.

America’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo yesterday implored Southeast Asian nations to trust in US values, delivering a withering takedown of Chinese-style development, comments Beijing later swatted away as “meaningless”.