With their last president detained and awaiting trial for corruption, South Koreans go to the polls Tuesday to choose her successor, but the economic and social frustrations that fuelled anger...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged his South East Asian colleagues on Thursday to take further steps to isolate North Korea's pariah regime. President Donald Trump's top diplomat met foreign...
Donald Trump has said he will visit Israel, the Vatican and Saudi Arabia in his first foreign trip as US president. Mr Trump will travel overseas in late May before heading to Brussels for a Nato...
The US House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly voted in favor of broadening sanctions against North Korea, including efforts to cut the regime's sources of international financing....
More than 300 protesters marched in New York on Thursday against a scheduled visit by President Donald Trump as the House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. "Hey hey,...
Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday signed an agreement to set up four safe zones in Syria that the United Nations described as a promising step to wind down the brutal six-year war. The United...
US President Donald Trump and Australia's Malcolm Turnbull will meet later Thursday to steady a long-standing alliance after relations soured at a time of growing tensions in the Asia-Pacific. The...
Donald Trump on Thursday announced his first foreign trip as president will include stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican -- the spiritual centers of Islam, Judaism and Catholicism. Trump...
Russia, Iran and Turkey have signed a deal calling for safe zones to be established inside Syria so that refugees can return and aid be sent in. The deal, which has not been signed by rebel groups or...
Syrian regime allies Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey on Thursday signed a memorandum on a Moscow-backed plan to create safe zones in Syria to bolster a fragile truce. An AFP reporter at...
The US trade deficit drifted lower in March despite record imports from Mexico and a drop in total exports, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Rising oil import prices, which hit a near...
Entrepreneurship: The way to go In a continent where about 50% of young graduates are unemployed and which also records the world’s highest rate of working poverty-employed people who earn less...
Syrian rebels on Thursday resumed participation in peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana centred around a Russian-backed plan to create safe zones in the war-battered country. The rebels on...
President Donald Trump will issue an executive order on Thursday making it easier for churches and religious groups to take part in politics without risk of losing their tax-exempt status, a senior...
Apple chief Tim Cook announced Apple is creating a fund to get more people in the US to do "advanced manufacturing," kicking it off with a billion dollars. Apple investing in high-tech manufacturing...
US lawmakers will vote Thursday to repeal and replace Obamacare, Republican House leaders said. The announcement comes after a new health care reform bill gained momentum on Wednesday when two key...
The Queens-born Donald Trump, whose wife still has a Manhattan address, won't even get a Bronx cheer when he returns home for his first time since becoming president. Angry protests and security...
The US Justice Department said Wednesday it has decided not to bring charges in the videotaped police killing last year of Alton Sterling, a black man whose fatal shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday made no change in the benchmark interest rate and downplayed recent weak economic growth, a signal it likely will remain on course for gradual rate hikes. The...
Entrepreneurship: The way to go but not the easy way out The unemployed are venturing into entrepreneurship In a continent where about 50% of young graduates are unemployed and which also records the...
