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President Donald Trump boasted on Tuesday night about corporate job expansion and military cost-savings that actually took root under his predecessor and gave a one-sided account of the costs and benefits to the economy from immigration — ignoring the ups...

An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 17.5 degrees Celsius (63.5° Fahrenheit), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.

A police sharpshooter accidentally fired his weapon during a speech by French President Francois Hollande and two people were slightly injured, the top official of France's Charente region has said.

Former Republican president George W Bush offered a tacit criticism of his successor Donald Trump on Monday, in rare public comments regarding politics and the media.

The Democratic Party elected Tom Perez chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He is the first Latino to lead the party, which is demoralized and divided by an election campaign that resulted in Donald Trump becoming President of the United States...

The epicentre of the second earthquake was near Swanra in western Nepal, while the epicentre of first lied near Salu in central Nepal, The Himalayan Times reported.

The US Customs and Border Protection has said that it plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, signaling that he is aggressively pursuing plans to erect "a great wall" along the 2,000-mi...

US President Donald Trump criticized the FBI on Friday for failing to stop leaks of national security information to the media and directed the agency to find those who pass on classified information.

President Donald Trump's White House barred several major US media outlets from a daily press briefing on Friday, raising accusations of favoritism.

Turkish-backed rebels have seized the centre of al-Bab town from Islamic State, Turkish state media and rebels said on Thursday, in a boost to Ankara's drive to defeat the militant group in northern Syria.

Ocean scientists will pick 50 coral reefs worldwide to test ways to limit damage from climate change, pollution and over-fishing that threatens to wipe out 90 percent of all reefs by 2050, according to a plan launched on Thursday.

The Trump administration has ended federal protections for transgender students that instructed schools to allow them to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities.

Lal said the General Assembly is the “closest thing” to a global parliament that mankind has been able to achieve so far but the role and authority of the Assembly is being “progressively undermined” by the “expansive role and activism of the Security Cou...

The US government on Wednesday issued a sweeping set of orders that implement President Donald Trump's plan to increase immigration enforcement, placing the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation.

The bodies of 74 migrants have been found washed up on a beach near the western Libyan city of Zawiya, a Red Crescent spokesman said on Tuesday.

The March 2016 shooting in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron was caught on video and spread widely online.