Politics & Government News

9:37 AM on Monday, September 1

An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries

9:00 AM on Monday, September 1

Iraq's prime minister has presided over the reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in Mosul's Old City

6:21 AM on Monday, September 1

Russia is suspected of jamming the radar of EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, a European official says

6:02 AM on Monday, September 1

Australia has agreed to pay Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who cannot be held indefinitely in detention

5:22 AM on Monday, September 1

A new book on the UK royal family says Queen Camilla beat off an indecent attack when she was a teenager by taking off her shoe and bashing the assailant in the groin

5:16 AM on Monday, September 1

A decline in foreign visitors traveling to the United States has stretched well into the summer

4:28 AM on Monday, September 1

President Donald Trump has plastered taxes on products from almost every country on earth

4:03 AM on Monday, September 1

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladmir Putin have met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China

2:03 AM on Monday, September 1

For decades, Europe has relied upon the U.S. for its security among the stars

1:53 AM on Monday, September 1

A ban on fish-shaped soy sauce containers has come into force in the state of South Australia

9:57 PM on Sunday, August 31

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles

6:49 PM on Sunday, August 31

Ukrainian officials have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of former parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy

3:55 PM on Sunday, August 31

A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York City mayor is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a weekend car crash in New Hampshire

12:12 PM on Sunday, August 31

A U.S. judge has blocked the government from deporting Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families

10:22 AM on Sunday, August 31

As Congress returns to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, it will have to find a way to work with Democrats or around them as a government shutdown looms

9:52 AM on Sunday, August 31

Iran-backed Houthis have raided United Nations offices in Yemen's capital, detaining at least 11 U.N. employees

2:39 AM on Sunday, August 31

A Filipino priest who protested Rodrigo Duterte’s drug crackdown is among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize

12:58 AM on Sunday, August 31

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have pledged to resolve their border differences and bolster cooperation ahead of the opening of a regional summit in Tianjin

9:44 PM on Saturday, August 30

The leaders of Russia, China, India and seven other nations are meeting in northern China for the latest summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization The meeting Monday could be an emerging challenge to America’s global leadership

9:14 PM on Friday, August 29

Beijing is rolling out the red carpet for more than two dozen world leaders at two major events this week