US
15 Aug 2017
Demonstrators toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier in North Carolina on Monday, two days after violence erupted during a protest by white nationalists against the planned removal of another Confederate monument.
15 Aug 2017
Several hundred angry protesters demonstrated outside Trump Tower in New York on Monday, denouncing US President Donald Trump before his first visit...
14 Aug 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday ordered his armed forces to carry out a national exercise next week in reaction to a threat of possible US military action voiced by President Donald Trump.
14 Aug 2017
US President Donald Trump was to meet with top law enforcement aides on Monday as criticism mounted over his failure to explicitly condemn a rally by white supremacists in Virginia which ended in bloodshed.
14 Aug 2017
The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest Saturday in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups.
13 Aug 2017
The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest Saturday in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups.
13 Aug 2017
Two US soldiers were killed and five wounded in northern Iraq on Sunday during "combat operations", a statement from the American military said.
13 Aug 2017
CIA director Mike Pompeo offered assurances Sunday there was "nothing imminent" in the US standoff with nuclear-armed North Korea but said he wouldn't be surprised if Pyongyang conducted another missile test.
13 Aug 2017
Iran's parliament on Sunday approved more than half a billion dollars in funding for the country's missile programme and foreign operations of the elite Revolutionary Guards in response to US sanctions.
12 Aug 2017
President Donald Trump on Saturday reassured Guam it was secure amid mounting regional tensions, vowing that American military forces "stand ready" to safeguard the US Pacific island territory against a belligerent North Korea.
12 Aug 2017
US President Donald Trump's threat of considering military force in Venezuela is "craziness," the South American country's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said Friday.
10 Aug 2017
US President Donald Trump doubled down on his warnings to North Korea Thursday, saying his threat to rain "fire and fury" on it maybe "wasn't tough enough."