Politics & Government News

11:49 AM on Friday, November 28

Trinidad and Tobago's prime minister is backtracking comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the twin-island nation

11:40 AM on Friday, November 28

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel is known for the red sweater-vest he wore on the sidelines while leading the Ohio State football team

9:17 AM on Friday, November 28

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, has resigned as a lawmaker

9:16 AM on Friday, November 28

Talks on the U.K. joining a major EU defense fund have ended without agreement, the British government said Friday

5:47 AM on Friday, November 28

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin to discuss energy imports

5:17 AM on Friday, November 28

The Louvre museum has approved a ticket price increase for non-EU visitors, raising it from 22 to 32 euros starting in January

4:22 AM on Friday, November 28

Afghanistan has expressed “deep regret" and strong condemnation of a cross-border attack into neighboring Tajikistan that killed three Chinese workers and wounded a fourth

3:49 AM on Friday, November 28

A high court in Kenya has declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have called a landmark win for food security

2:16 AM on Friday, November 28

Hungary's Viktor Orbán to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow for energy talks (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert misspelled Hungary)

12:26 AM on Friday, November 28

Trump vows to 'permanently pause' migration from poor nations in anti-immigrant social media screed

10:33 PM on Thursday, November 27

Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries and it faces a crisis of health care made worse by the Trump administration's deep cuts in foreign aid

10:27 PM on Thursday, November 27

Sri Lankan authorities say they have closed government offices and schools Friday as the death toll from landslides and floods across the country rose to 56

8:35 PM on Thursday, November 27

Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, a veteran politician who had faced accusations of using his position for personal and political gain, has resigned to become an ambassador

6:42 PM on Thursday, November 27

President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in DC attack

6:11 PM on Thursday, November 27

People who work with refugees are worried about backlash after authorities say an Afghan national shot National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., this week

1:26 PM on Thursday, November 27

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan

4:01 AM on Thursday, November 27

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a disputed presidential election and led to deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló departing for neighboring Senegal

1:05 AM on Thursday, November 27

There are lots of unanswered questions about the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members in the nation’s capital

12:43 AM on Thursday, November 27

President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died, calling the shooter who had worked with the CIA in his native country a “savage monster.”

12:13 PM on Monday, November 10