US President Donald Trump says he is in no hurry to sign a trade deal with China as Washington imposes a new set of tariffs on Chinese goods and negotiators enter a second day of last-ditch talks to try to salvage an agreement.

The United States has for the first time seized a North Korean cargo ship it accused of illicit coal shipments in violation of US and United Nations sanctions, the US Justice Department announced yesterday.

President Donald Trump orders new sanctions on Iran, this time targeting the Islamic Republic's export revenues from its industrial metals sector, and vows to keep squeezing Tehran unless it "fundamentally alters" its policies.

The White House defiantly asserted executive privilege and refused to comply with “unlawful and reckless” demands by congressional Democrats to turn over an unredacted version of the special counsel’s Russia report.

President Donald Trump’s taxes show that he lost $1.17 billion over a decade starting in the mid-1980s, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

US House Democrats scheduled a Wednesday vote on whether to hold the nation’s top law enforcement official in contempt for failing to produce a full, unredacted special counsel’s report on Russian election interference.

US President Donald Trump is enjoying the strongest polling of his presidency following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and positive economic news, according to public opinion poll agency Gallup.

The United States has refused to sign an agreement on challenges in the Arctic due to discrepancies over climate change wording, diplomats said yesterday, jeopardising cooperation in the polar region at the sharp edge of global warming.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed Sunday for Russia to get out of Venezuela, while his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov,

President Donald Trump assured Israel on Sunday that it has Washington’s full support after the Jewish state led waves of retaliatory

The United States is sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in a “clear and unmistakable”

Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain in 2017 after a secession attempt, can contest EU polls this month, a

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church appealed for calm and an alcohol ban yesterday after clashes between Christians and Muslims in a

After dramatic appeals and testimony in Congress, Donald Trump’s one-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen was due to report to jail

The US State Department has approved a possible $6 billion worth of weapons sales to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in three separate

A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the US outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused the top US law-enforcement officer of committing a crime by lying to Congress, escalating the showdown between Donald Trump’s administration and the Democrats investigating him.

Jared Kushner revealed new contours Thursday of the upcoming US peace plan for the Middle East, indicating that it will pull back from longstanding mentions of a two-state solution with the Palestinians and accept Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Washington has signed more than $1 billion in new missile contracts in the three months since it announced plans to withdraw from a key Cold War-era arms treaty, campaigners said yesterday.

A senior US congressional Democrat yesterday threatened to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena to provide Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on the Russia inquiry, and accused President Donald Trump’s administration of a growing attack on democracy.