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The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded an extensive set of guidelines put in place under President Barack Obama that had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

Thousands of demonstrators marched in cities across the United States on Saturday against President Donald Trump's hardline

Fed up with corruption and violence, Mexicans will elect their next president, deciding whether to believe in the change promised by the anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the heavy favorite.

The US ambassador to Estonia is resigning, reportedly in frustration at remarks made by President Donald Trump about America's

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would raise the issue of alleged Russian meddling in US elections during his planned

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to announce his nominee to replace retiring US Supreme Court Justice Anthony

When they met in April at the White House, President Donald Trump suggested to his French counterpart that France should quit the

More than 120,000 civilians have been uprooted by a Syrian army offensive in the southwest since it began last week, a war monitor said yesterday, and a senior UN official warned of catastrophe as they risked being trapped between warring sides.

A gunman fired through a glass door at a newspaper in the Maryland capital of Annapolis and sprayed the newsroom with gunfire, killing at least five people and injuring several others, authorities say.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday secured a historic chance to shift the US Supreme Court decisively to the

The US Democratic Party was rocked to its core Tuesday as establishment congressman Joe Crowley -- seen as a potential

A US judge has blocked the Trump administration from separating immigrant parents and children at the US-Mexico border, and

A judge in California orders US border authorities to reunite separated families within 30 days, setting a hard deadline in a process that has so far yielded uncertainty about when children might again see their parents.

Parents who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States with their children will not face prosecution for the time being because the government is running short of space to house them, officials said on Monday.