A US court issues a warrant for the seizure of an Iranian tanker that British Royal Marines had seized last month in Gibraltar, a court document shows.

A man put to death in the US state of Tennessee on Thursday for murdering a woman and her daughter chose in his final hours to be

Six police officers were shot and wounded in the US city of Philadelphia on Wednesday during an hours-long incident that began when police tried to execute a narcotics warrant, the Philadelphia Police Department said.

The United States applies to seize an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar, halting its expected release at the last minute and preventing a possible swap for British-flagged tanker held by Iran.

The US public’s opinion of China has plummeted amid a surge in strategic and trade tensions in recent years, the Pew Research Center

President Donald Trump has seen the future and it is oil. And plastic. Where most environmental scientists and most US allies fear that overuse of fossil fuels is driving the planet into crisis, the US president sees only opportunity.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday set sail for New York, heading for a UN summit on a zero-emissions yacht skippered by a member of Monaco’s ruling family.

Disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein has committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on charges that he trafficked girls as young as 14 for sex, US news media reported yesterday.

President Donald Trump said Friday that fellow Republicans will set aside resistance to restricting access to firearms by supporting background checks for people buying weapons in the wake of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to resume denuclearization talks after US-South Korean war games end.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Joseph Maguire, the current chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become

President Donald Trump said yesterday he was not ready to finalize a trade deal with Beijing and signaled he might cancel talks set for September, raising the stakes in the intensifying US-China trade war.

President Donald Trump yesterday said he has received a “very beautiful letter” on Thursday from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and added that he could have another meeting with him.

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticised US treatment of migrants during a visit to Guatemala, and raised doubts about whether the Central American country could cope with a migration deal agreed with the Trump administration.

US officials said that some 680 undocumented migrants were detained in a major series of raids Wednesday at food processing plants in the southeastern United States, part of President Donald Trump’s announced crackdown on illegal immigration.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday downplayed North Korea’s latest missile launches, saying they won’t alter the prospects for negotiations on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons.

Chinese media outlet Global Times reports that Huawei will launch the first commercial devices powered by its in-house operating system this year.

A quarter of the world’s people are just a few dry spells away from facing dangerous water shortages, a US think tank warned

Nations must work together to stop lone wolf attackers, who take inspiration from each other, Nato’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg

President Donald Trump yesterday called for urgent action to prevent gun violence and said all Americans must “condemn racism,