World Politics

A victory for Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party would mark one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Canadian political history.

Abbas, 89, has headed the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority since the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat in 2004.

The Ukrainian president said the meeting could prove historic if it delivers the kind of peace he is hoping for.

Thousands of people gathered in St Peter's Square, Vatican City, on Saturday for the funeral of Pope Francis.

Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged gunfire for a second straight day as ties plummeted between the two nuclear-armed neighbours after an attack on tourists blamed on Pakistani militants killed…

The Trump administration appears to have deported a 2-year-old US citizen "with no meaningful process," a judge says.

A United States judge seeks to investigate whether the Trump administration has engaged in criminal contempt by allegedly wrongly deporting people.

The Australian Prime Minister has pledged $25 million to teach languages other than English to school students, claiming diversity is the country's strength, one day after a neo-Nazi disrupted an…

"Most of the major points are agreed to," the US President said in a social media post after landing in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis

The president in January signed an executive order that asserted transgender people were unable to meet the standards to serve in the armed forces.

If the Conservatives are gaining ground, it may be because Donald Trump has not been threatening Canada as much lately, a professor says.

The US President has called on Vladimir Putin to halt attacks on Ukraine, in a rare rebuke of the Russian leader.

In recent weeks, tensions had escalated within the Trump administration over the authority granted to the billionaire.

US stocks have rallied on hopes that the world's two biggest economies might lower steep trade barriers.

It comes after the US Secretary of State's decision not to attend a major meeting aimed at bringing about an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.

The prime minister says New Zealand would need to see a ceasefire in Ukraine before deciding whether to take part in peacekeeping arrangements.

"We are entering a new era as the global economic system that has operated for the last 80 years is being reset," its chief economist says.