Alabama Republican Roy Moore filed a court challenge late on Wednesday to the outcome of a US Senate election he unexpectedly lost, hours before officials in the state were due to certify his opponent's victory.

Venezuela saw almost 70 newspapers, TV and radio stations close in 2017 while attacks on journalists rose, the main union representing

The United States' top diplomat defended his country's foreign policy record on Wednesday, saying progress had been made in the last year to rein in

The United States announced sanctions on two of North Korea's most prominent officials behind its ballistic missile program on

President Donald Trump again took aim Saturday at deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, saying he was "racing the

The Myanmar military, which has been accused of ethnic cleansing against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority,

A federal judge in Seattle partially blocked US President Donald Trump's newest restrictions on refugee admissions

US prosecutors have dropped charges accusing a United Nations economist in New York of committing visa fraud by bringing into the country a domestic worker from Bangladesh and then failing to pay her a lawful wage, his lawyers announces.

Federal agents arrested a former US Marine on Friday for allegedly plotting a Christmas attack in San Francisco inspired by the Islamic

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday ordered an investigation into allegations that the Obama administration undermined

The United States will provide Ukraine with "enhanced defensive capabilities," the State Department said on Friday, as Kiev battles

The United States yesterday backed the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a US ally, who was certified the

The US Congress on Thursday averted a government shutdown just one day before federal funding was due to expire, sending President

Vice President Mike Pence told US troops in Afghanistan Thursday that they have put the Taliban on the run, as he became the most

US President Donald Trump's new national security strategy unveiled this week is a "criminal document" that seeks the "total

More than 120 countries defy President Donald Trump and vote in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said a missile fired by Yemen's Houthi group toward Saudi Arabia

The US Senate narrowly approved a sweeping tax overhaul early yesterday, putting President Donald Trump on the brink of his

At last the Pentagon has acknowledged funding a secret multi-million-dollar programme to investigate sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO).

An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtles off an overpass south of Seattle and spills some of its cars onto the highway below, killing at least three people, injuring more than 100 and crushing two vehicles, authorities say.