The United States says it is tightening the distribution of visas to Myanmar and Laos after both countries refused to accept their citizens deported from the country.

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court, a decision likely to cement a rightward tilt on the top judicial body with momentous implications for American society.

A New York man who said he was Donald Trump's personal driver for more than 20 years sued the US president's company yesterday, claiming he was not paid for thousands of hours of overtime.

US President Donald Trump said yesterday he has "confidence" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will honor the denuclearization

Two United States warships entered the Taiwan Strait on Saturday at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday shrugged off North Korean accusations of "gangster-like" behaviour and said sanctions

Bolivia is to build an underwater museum in its sacred Lake Titicaca, the culture minister says.

The death toll in a week-long eastern Canadian heat wave has reached 54, officials said on Friday. Most of the victims linked to the

North Korea slammed the United States for making "rapacious" demands during critical denuclearisation talks yesterday, after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had earlier described them as "productive".

A former journalist breaks her silence to stand by her allegation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau groped her nearly two decades ago, when he was not politically involved.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will allow protesters to fly a blimp over parliament portraying Donald Trump as an orange, snarling baby during the US president's upcoming visit, Khan's office says on Thursday.

US Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who had been lauded by US President Donald Trump for his aggressive efforts to roll back environmental regulations, resigns yesterday under heavy fire for a series of ethics-related controversies.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday left Washington bound for Pyongyang and his latest round of talks with Kim Jong Un on North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

The US Navy stands ready to ensure free navigation and the flow of commerce, the US military's Central Command said yesterday, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned they would block oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary.

The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded an extensive set of guidelines put in place under President Barack Obama that had

Republican US senators met with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a rare visit to Moscow yesterday ahead of a summit between the countries' presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

The FBI has arrested a man who it said planned to bomb Cleveland's Fourth of July celebrations and then stand by and watch "it go

White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he believed the bulk of North Korea's weapons programmes could be

It had been nearly two months since Buena Ventura Martin Godinez has seen her 7-year-old daughter after the frightened young mother was separated from her family trying to cross from Mexico into the US.

Anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sweeps to victory in Mexico's presidential election, in a political sea change driven by voters' anger over endemic corruption and brutal violence.