Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the American government of manufacturing a crisis in an attempt to start a war in South America, in an interview broadcast on Monday.

US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un hold a second summit this week with no real expectation of a final deal on ridding the North of nuclear weapons but hope raised yesterday for an official peace on the peninsula at long last.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday expressed confidence that embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's "days are numbered," amid a violent impasse over humanitarian aid.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he is nominating Kelly Craft, his envoy to Canada, to be the next US ambassador to the United

A California couple pleads guilty to torture and years of abuse that included shackling some of their 13 children to beds and starving them to the point they stopped growing.

China and Russia yesterday said they were against forcefully sending "so-called humanitarian assistance" to Venezuela, warning it could spark conflict in the crisis-torn country.

Russian investigators yesterday formally charged US investor Michael Calvey with fraud following his controversial arrest, his lawyer said.

US police arrests a TV actor charged with lying to authorities about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack on the streets of Chicago.

A statue depicting the famous scene of a sailor kissing a woman in New York's Times Square as people celebrate the end of World War II has been vandalised with red spray paint spelling out #MeToo.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that while he hoped his next meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would yield much progress, he was also in "no rush" for results.

Venezuela's military said Tuesday it was on alert at its frontiers following threats by US President Donald Trump and suspended air and sea links with the island of Curacao ahead of a planned aid shipment.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on India and Pakistan to take immediate steps to defuse tensions and offered to help broker a solution if both sides agree.

As the summit frenzy shakes Hanoi, hairdresser Le Tuan Duong joins in, offering free Trump or Kim hairstyles to about a dozen customers.

Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday launched his second bid for the White House, taking direct aim at Donald Trump in an announcement that calls the US president a "pathological liar."

US President Donald Trump on Monday urged Venezuela's military to accept opposition leader Juan Guaido's amnesty offer, or stand to "lose everything," as a crisis deepened over President Nicolas Maduro's refusal to let in desperately needed humanitarian aid.

President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort faces up to 24 years in prison after being found to have violated his plea

A US man being fired from his job shot dead five co-workers at a factory on the outskirts of Chicago and wounded five police officers

Democratic lawmakers, states and others mulling legal challenges to President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underlined the need for different foreign policy approaches to Iran and North Korea in comments published Thursday, describing Tehran as more "destabilising" than Pyongyang.

A month into Venezuela's high-stakes political crisis, President Nicolas Maduro revealed in an AP interview that his government held secret talks with the Trump administration and predicted he would survive an unprecedented global campaign to force his resignation.