Politics & Government News

11:55 AM on Tuesday, July 28

A fuel crisis has hit Iraq's Kurdish region, leaving drivers in Irbil waiting for hours, some overnight, to buy gasoline

11:47 AM on Tuesday, July 28

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Kenya and Britain have agreed to resume military training in Kenya after delays in signing a new defense cooperation agreement

11:32 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Teams in southwestern China have identified 30 more victims from a recent landslide, bringing the death toll in Chongqing to 41

8:45 AM on Tuesday, July 28

The U.N.’s migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people to work in online scam centers, and the caseload is growing — especially across Asia

8:40 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Newly released audio tapes appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020

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U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is visiting Cyprus to show commitment to resolving its ethnic division

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Romania is taking a new approach to drones entering its airspace by shooting them down

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The United Nations reports that cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has killed nearly 500 civilians in Afghanistan and wounded over 1,000 others between October and June

1:42 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Nearly 40 years after Italy abandoned nuclear power following the Chernobyl disaster, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government is laying the groundwork for a return to atomic energy

1:10 AM on Tuesday, July 28

The U.N. refugee agency is marking the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention

8:00 PM on Monday, July 27

The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence worldwide

3:44 PM on Monday, July 27

U.S. diplomats walked out as their French counterparts spoke at the United Nations after the European ally criticized the Trump administration’s human rights record

3:37 PM on Monday, July 27

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow for now an executive order targeting mail-in voting

3:11 PM on Monday, July 27

His lawyer says Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Wu Chi-wai has been granted permission to stay in the U