The White House accused Israel of a betrayal of trust Wednesday, in an unusually sharp rebuke over its plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes deep in the West Bank.

The two candidates for US vice president launched bitter attacks on the reputations and policies of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Tuesday during a fiery debate five weeks from Election Day.

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday urged Afghanistan's Taliban militants to follow the recent example of a notorious warlord and make an "honourable" peace with the Kabul government.

Donald Trump's presidential hopes suffered a punishing new setback Monday as authorities clamped down on his charitable

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday vowed to publish new "significant" documents related to the US presidential

Colombia's government vowed to sustain its efforts to end the country's half-century civil war after voters handed it a shock

Colombians yesterday voted in a referendum on whether to ratify a historic peace accord to end a 52-year war

Slime and sleaze has bubbled to the top in the most revolting US Presidential election in living memory courtesy Republican Party

Syrian regime forces advanced in the battleground city of Aleppo yesterday backed by a Russian air campaign that a monitor said has

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the possibility of Pakistan's nuclear

The US Senate yesterday voted overwhelmingly to override Barack Obama's veto of a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi

Police in a California city fatally shot a black man who had been acting erratically, prompting protesters to quickly

The United States has tapped Jeffrey DeLaurentis, America's top diplomat in Havana, to become the first official

The United States is sending about 600 extra troops to Iraq to train local forces for an upcoming offensive on the Islamic State

Colombia's leftist FARC rebel force signed a historic peace accord with the government Monday and apologized to the

TRUMP ON IRAQ WAR: “Wrong. Wrong. ... That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her. I was against the war in Iraq.”

It was the opening Hillary Clinton had been waiting for all night. Late in Monday's debate, when the candidates each had notched their points on trade, taxes, crime and more, the talk turned to Clinton's stamina, brought to the fore by her recent bout of pneumonia.

Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of Monday night's debate by 62% of voters who tuned in to watch, while just 27% said they thought Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters who watched the debate.

Views from around the world on first US presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's habit of peddling hype and fabrication emerges unabated in the first presidential debate while Hillary Clinton plays it cautiously in her statements, though not without error. They both denied making statements that they are on the record as saying.