Politics & Government News

7:52 AM on Wednesday, February 18

More than a dozen former international cricket captainshave urged Pakistan’s government to ensure better prison treatment and medical care for former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan

7:32 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Greece is working with Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark to set up deportation hubs outside the European Union for migrants denied asylum

7:11 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Bulgarian President Iliana Yotova has appointed a caretaker government ahead of snap parliamentary elections in April

6:27 AM on Wednesday, February 18

A Turkish parliamentary commission has recommended reforms to support a renewed peace process with the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party, but ties the legal steps to verified disarmament by the group

6:19 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Late-night host Stephen Colbert isn't backing down from his public dispute with CBS bosses over what he can air on his show

4:19 AM on Wednesday, February 18

A private Indian university has been booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi after one of its staffers displayed a a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university’s own innovation

12:07 AM on Wednesday, February 18

An investigation shows that illegal luxury mansions have been built in a Sierra Leone national park that serves as an environmental buffer for its capital

11:55 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she will seek the presidency in the 2028 elections

11:12 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Britain’s House of Lords is facing scrutiny as an indirect result of the Jeffrey Epstein files

10:11 PM on Tuesday, February 17

5:45 PM on Tuesday, February 17

An immigration judge has dismissed the Trump administration’s deportation case against Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian graduate student and Columbia protest leader

4:07 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Peru’s Congress has ousted interim President José Jerí, deepening the country’s political churn just before the April election

2:32 PM on Tuesday, February 17

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators

2:19 PM on Tuesday, February 17

State legislators in New Mexico have launched a truth commission to investigate past activity at a secluded desert ranch where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once entertained guests

10:22 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Stephen Colbert says his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico was pulled from Monday's broadcast over fears it would violate “equal time” guidance from the Federal Communications Commission under the Trump administration

10:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Peru’s Congress has voted to remove interim President José Jerí from office as he faces corruption allegations

8:16 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Sri Lankan legislators have overwhelmingly voted to scrap their pensions, as the Marxist-leaning government fulfills a key campaign promise

7:52 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Lawmakers and the White House offered no signs of compromise over the holiday weekend in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers that has led to a pause in funding for the Department of Homeland Security

4:14 AM on Tuesday, February 17

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11:00 PM on Monday, February 16

Iran has announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz for live fire military drills