The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's all-important tax code revamp on Tuesday, but a late and embarrassing rules snag will force the chamber to vote on the package once more.
Canada and the United States announced on Tuesday they will host a summit of foreign ministers in Vancouver on January 16, including envoys from Japan and South Korea, to seek progress on the North Korean nuclear crisis.
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May spoke for the first time since a row over his retweets of a British extremist group, addressing vexing questions about Brexit and Middle East peace on Tuesday.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday voted to renew cross-border aid deliveries to Syria’s rebel-held areas for one year, but Russia abstained and warned the relief operation must gradually wind down.
US lawmakers will vote on Tuesday on the nation’s largest tax overhaul in decades, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, keeping Congress on track to get the contentious bill to President Trump’s desk by Christmas.
Around 36,000 child migrants, including 14,000 who are unaccompanied, need help in Libya, a major transit hub for migrants trying to reach Europe, UN agencies said Monday.
France on Monday accepted a first group of 19 refugees identified in Africa under an overhauled asylum policy that will also see it expel thousands of economic migrants.
The United States on Monday vetoed a draft UN resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, after all 14 other Security Council members backed the measure.
An Amtrak passenger train traveling on a new route for the first time derailed Monday in Washington state, killing at least three people as cars plunged off a bridge onto a busy highway at the height of morning rush hour, officials said.
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera will return to power as Chile’s president next year, according to near-complete results from a runoff election held on Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday for the CIA's help in thwarting a planned attack in Saint Petersburg, the second time in a week that the leaders have exchanged praise.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was declared on Sunday the winner of a heavily disputed presidential election held three weeks ago, despite mounting protests and opposition claims of fraud.
The UN Security Council will vote on Monday on a draft resolution that would reject US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, diplomats said.
EU leaders will wrangle over ways to forge a stronger eurozone on Friday, with hopes of sweeping reforms dashed by political limbo in Germany and waning interest.
Australian institutions "seriously failed" children in their care over decades with tens of thousands sexually abused, the final report from a five-year inquiry said on Friday, calling it a "national tragedy".
Pangolin smugglers are constantly opening up new routes to evade law enforcement agencies, a study showed on Friday, highlighting the challenge of tackling the trade in the world's most heavily trafficked mammal.
Japan said on Friday it had added 19 more entities to its list of organisations and individuals targeted by asset-freeze sanctions on North Korea.
APEC is set to put digitally-driven growth and employment opportunities within greater reach across the Asia-Pacific in 2018, boosted by APEC member economies’ capacity to adapt to trade and economic policy disruptions demonstrated over the past year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an annual press conference on Thursday in his first major public appearance since announcing he would seek a new six-year term in March 2018 elections.
The World Trade Organisation concluded a ministerial meeting on Wednesday with nothing significant to boast -- a meager outcome for its first gathering in the Donald Trump era.
