Politics & Government News

3:31 AM on Friday, January 9

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland

3:18 AM on Friday, January 9

Iran leader: Protesters 'ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy,' referring to Trump

2:16 AM on Friday, January 9

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements

1:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza, as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce the Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire

1:48 AM on Friday, January 9

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency

12:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas

11:25 PM on Thursday, January 8

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer

11:03 PM on Thursday, January 8

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is criticizing protesters, accusing them of acting to please U.S. President Donald Trump

10:41 PM on Thursday, January 8

A reporter covering crime in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz has been killed in Poza Rica

9:58 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles

9:34 PM on Thursday, January 8

A Honduran lawmaker from the National Party has been injured after a homemade explosive was thrown into Congress

8:00 PM on Thursday, January 8

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty

6:09 PM on Thursday, January 8

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon

4:55 PM on Thursday, January 8

11:31 AM on Thursday, January 8

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges

5:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza

3:56 AM on Thursday, January 8

Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls

3:44 AM on Thursday, January 8

Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify

1:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer

9:28 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Protesters have confronted federal officers in Minneapolis the day after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer