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,

The US and the Taliban were thrashing out elements of a deal to bring a close to Afghanistan’s 18-year conflict at the second day of

A man armed with a rifle opens fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, killing 20 people and wounding 26 others as panicked shoppers and employees scurried for cover before the gunman surrendered to police at the scene.

President Donald Trump on Friday dropped his choice of John Ratcliffe to be US spy chief after questions arose about the

A majority of Democrats in the US House of Representatives now favor launching impeachment proceedings against Republican President

President Donald Trump drops his choice of John Ratcliffe to be US spy chief after questions arose about the congressman's lack of experience and possible exaggerations in his resume, marking the latest upheaval over a top national security post.

America’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo yesterday implored Southeast Asian nations to trust in US values, delivering a withering takedown of Chinese-style development, comments Beijing later swatted away as “meaningless”.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday played down what appeared to be North Korea’s third missile launch in just over week, saying they were short-range and “very standard” and would not affect his willingness to negotiate with Pyongyang.

US President Donald Trump vows to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from September 1, sharply escalating a bruising trade war between the world's largest economies and jolting financial markets.

US President Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin about wildfires in Siberia and trade, the White House

There has been a sharp drop in the size of Afghanistan’s National Defense Security Forces in the past few months due to changes in the way troops are counted and an effort to reduce the number of so-called “ghost” soldiers, a US government watchdog said yesterday.

Facebook-backed researchers have managed to translate brain signals into spoken words, bringing the social network’s vision of linking brains and machines closer to reality.

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden came under heavy fire over healthcare, immigration and criminal justice reform on Wednesday, but fought back against a stage full of rivals eager to knock him off his perch during a contentious debate.

The United States believes that Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, is dead, a US official says.

Slightly more than half of US voters believe President Donald Trump is racist, according to a poll published on Tuesday. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed in the Quinnipiac University poll said Trump is racist while 45 percent said he is not. Forty-six percent of

The ideological divide between Democratic presidential hopefuls came into focus Tuesday as leading progressive candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren defended their liberal policies on healthcare and immigration against surprisingly energetic attacks from moderate rivals.