Politics & Government News

6:40 AM on Monday, February 16

Germany is seeking to assure Lebanon that it will support the Lebanese government even after pulling out German troops deployed as part of U.N. peacekeepers along the Lebanon-Israel border when their mission ends later this year

2:58 AM on Monday, February 16

Myanmar’s military government ordered East Timor’s senior diplomat to leave the country after judicial authorities from the fellow Southeast Asian country accepted a criminal complaint against Myanmar's armed forces

1:00 PM on Sunday, February 15

Demonstrators across the Czech Republic have backed President Petr Pavel in a dispute with the foreign minister over a Cabinet appointment

12:49 PM on Sunday, February 15

Lawmakers and the White House are offering no signs of compromise in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers

12:25 PM on Sunday, February 15

President Gustavo Petro said he will accept a proposal by Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group to allow an independent commission to investigate its alleged links to the drug trade

11:35 AM on Sunday, February 15

More than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge

11:22 AM on Sunday, February 15

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar is launching his election campaign and says he can return Hungary to a stronger European path

10:45 AM on Sunday, February 15

President Donald Trump says that members of his newly created Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward rebuilding Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilization and police forces for the territory

10:35 AM on Sunday, February 15

The U.N. refugee agency says residents are leaving Syria’s al-Hol camp in large numbers, and Syrian authorities plan to relocate those who remain

10:04 AM on Sunday, February 15

Israel is beginning a land registration process in the occupied West Bank that critics say can shift large areas into state control

10:02 AM on Sunday, February 15

Iranian state media reports that Iran’s top diplomat is traveling to Geneva where the second round of nuclear negotiations with the U.S. will take place

7:56 AM on Sunday, February 15

The U.S. military says it's boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean

6:46 AM on Sunday, February 15

Many political candidates pitch themselves as outsiders

5:03 AM on Sunday, February 15

A top European Union official has rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration

11:01 PM on Saturday, February 14

11:00 PM on Saturday, February 14

Larry the cat is marking 15 years as Britain’s Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, a symbol of stability in turbulent political times

10:58 PM on Saturday, February 14

A month after violent clashes in a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria's Aleppo, tens of thousands of residents have returned

4:46 AM on Saturday, February 14

About 250,000 people have demonstrated against Iran’s government on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders in Germany

11:13 AM on Thursday, January 29

11:12 AM on Thursday, January 29