Under pressure, Trump orders FBI Kavanaugh probe
President Donald Trump, under intense pressure from moderates in his own party over his Supreme Court nominee, on Friday ordered an FBI investigation into sexual...
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US Congress asks state department and Pentagon to submit report on US arms embargo on Cyprus
A provision regarding US-Cyprus security relations and the US arms embargo on Cyprus, has been included in the $717bn defence bill signed earlier this week...
Voters head to polls in Alabama race with high stakes for Trump
Voters in Alabama were headed to the polls on Tuesday in a hard-fought US Senate race in which President Donald Trump has endorsed fellow Republican Roy Moore,...
Australian citizenship crisis claims another lawmaker
A citizenship crisis that robbed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of his one-seat majority will claim another politician, with the senate president on Wednesday saying he...
Republicans consider bipartisan healthcare talks (Update)
As their seven-year effort to repeal and replace Obamacare derailed in the US Senate, Republicans faced the prospect of doing the once unthinkable: working with Democrats to...
Brazil’s Supreme Court urged to bar Rousseff from politics
Major parties in Brazil’s governing coalition pressed the Supreme Court on Friday to overturn a Senate decision allowing former President Dilma Rousseff to remain politically...
US Senate confirms Loretta Lynch as attorney general
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Richard Cowan The US Senate voted on Thursday to approve Loretta Lynch as President Barack Obama’s next attorney general, ending a...
Berlusconi to break with government in budget vote
By Paolo Biondi Silvio Berlusconi’s party will vote against the government in a confidence vote over the 2014 budget and will announce its withdrawal from...
Italy court hands Berlusconi two-year ban from public office
By Ilaria Polleschi A Milan court on Saturday ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years...
Bill to spare US economy from debt crisis also delivers favours
By Patricia Zengerle and David Lawder The last-minute bill to avert a potentially catastrophic U.S. default and reopen the government came in at a relatively...
