Politics & Government News

11:55 AM on Tuesday, June 2

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President Donald Trump on Monday adjusted tariffs on some steel, aluminum and copper imports, lowering some tariffs on farming equipment and extending tariffs on other equipment

8:54 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Two of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed militias say they will start handing in their weapons to authorities

8:23 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Zimbabwe’s justice minister has introduced a constitutional amendment bill to extend the tenure of the country's 83-year-old president and change the election process

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Senegal's ousted Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko says his party will not join the new government, escalating tensions with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye

6:57 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Prosecutors have detailed how the estranged husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon embezzled more than 400,000 pounds from the Scottish National Party

6:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

The British government is sticking to its net-zero goal despite global conflicts affecting energy supplies

5:38 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Cambodia has filed for compulsory conciliation under a U.N. maritime law agreement to resolve a sea border dispute with Thailand

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A bear has injured four people in a Japanese residential area in the latest case of attacks by the animals in the region

1:45 AM on Tuesday, June 2

The European Union has agreed on a major overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to increase deportations and establish detention centers abroad

12:45 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility

12:04 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark’s prime minister by leading a center-left coalition of four parties

9:00 PM on Saturday, May 30

Tough-on-crime outsider Abelardo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia’s presidential race in the first round of voting Sunday night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election

9:40 AM on Saturday, May 30

Businesses big and small have started receiving refunds after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump improperly imposed some tariffs on imported goods

9:10 AM on Monday, May 18