#United States

The Armenians are a people of great antiquity – the first Armenian kingdom was in the 8th century BC – but they grew up in a tough neighbourhood, and they have been ...

Armenia and the United States began a joint military training exercise on Monday, both sides said, at a time of high tension in Armenian relations with neighbouring Azerbaijan. The 10-day “...

Americans paused on Monday to remember the September 11, 2001, attacks, 22 years after Islamist hijackers seized control of jetliners and crashed them into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade ...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group called on Thursday for an end to clashes in northeast Syria, where the Kurdish-led force it backs has been locked ...

Canada, citing the risk of potential dangers, is advising LGBTQ travellers planning trips to the United States to check how they might be affected by recently passed laws in some ...

The United States on Tuesday announced a new package of military assistance to support Ukraine that includes additional air defence and artillery munitions, mine clearing equipment and medical vehicles. The ...

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday surrendered at a jail in Georgia’s Fulton County to face state charges arising from actions he was accused of ...

US President Joe Biden will host Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves next Tuesday, the White House said on Wednesday, with two Biden administration officials adding that topics in the meeting ...

“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine,” wrote Sextus Empiricus, a Sceptic philosopher who lived mainly in Athens and Alexandria almost 2,000 years ago. Justice may ...

The much-indicted septuagenarian former US president Donald Trump is running for president against the incumbent octogenarian Joe Biden in the 2024 race to the White House proving there is still life ...

North Korea may launch an intercontinental ballistic missile or take other military action to protest a summit of the United States, South Korea and Japan, a South Korean lawmaker said ...

“It’s not perfect, but it’s good. We’ve done something really good here,” said El Salvador’s vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government’s no-quarter war against the ...

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he orchestrated a plot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in what U.S. prosecutors call an unprecedented effort by ...

The United States will continue to support the agreed Security Council framework for a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality and will continue to urge the parties to resume negotiations, ...

The United States remains deeply concerned by developments in Niger in the wake of a military coup and condemns any effort to seize power by force, White House national security ...

Members of the government presented Cyprus’ “faithful adherence” to the sanctions against Russia to a US Department of State official tasked with overseeing sanctions implementation, it emerged on Friday. According ...

US President Joe Biden, after a lengthy delay, on Monday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for an official visit at a date to be determined, ...

By Andrea Shalal The United States and China, as the world’s two largest economies, must work together to combat the “existential threat” of climate change, U.S. Treasury Secretary ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday began a four-day visit to China focused on easing tensions between the world’s two largest economies, despite low expectations on both ...

Murky, dull skies loomed over tens of millions of Americans on Thursday as smoke from prolonged Canadian wildfires drifted across the Midwest and East, causing unhealthy and, in some spots, ...

The United States military believes that cluster munitions would be useful for Ukraine in pushing back against Russian forces, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday, but they had not ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For more than a century, oil has retained its international position as the main source of energy, utilised, among other things, for fuelling vehicles, ...

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Uganda officials after the African nation passed an anti-LGBTQ law that was condemned by many countries and the United Nations, the U....

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies ...