State Department officials voiced concern over risks to civilians before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rammed through $8.1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies, a former aide was quoted Monday as telling lawmakers. De...

  US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that President Donald Trump might not like the outcome of the November 3 presidential election but reminded the Republican president that he will have to vacate the White House ...

  US President Donald Trump says he disagrees with his top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on his assessment of the dire situation the United States faces. His remarks on Tuesday came as the US, the country hardest hit by the coron...

  Former national security adviser John Bolton accused US President Donald Trump of “reprehensible conduct” when asked why Democrats have also deemed his decision to write the memoir as “unpatriotic”. “I’m not saying he should have been impea...

The number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in the United States may be higher than the current official death toll count given, National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said during a Senate hearing on Tuesda...

Former US President Barack Obama committed the “biggest political crime in American history,” says the country’s current leader, Donald Trump. “The biggest political crime in American history, by far!” the president wrote in a tweet on Sunday, f...

China has no interest in interfering in the US presidential election, it said on Thursday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Beijing would try to make him lose his re-election bid in November. “The US presidential election is an i...

The World Health Organization warned on Saturday that recovering from coronavirus may not protect people from reinfection as the death toll from the pandemic approached 200,000 around the globe. Governments across the world are struggling to lim...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday wished British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a speedy recovery from the coronavirus, saying his “optimism and sense of humor” would help him get better. “I would like to express my sincere support at this ...

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the peak death rate in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic was likely to hit in two weeks and extended “social distancing” guidelines until April 30. “Easter should be the peak number,” Trump s...

The Ministry of Public Health and Population and the Joint Technical Committee for Preparation for Coronavirus (COG) reported that they had received of two suspected cases of Coronavirus. The Committee Spokesman, Dr. Abdulhakim Al-Kuhlani, told Sab...

China said Tuesday it was “strongly indignant” after a tweet from US President Donald Trump referred to the new coronavirus as the “Chinese virus”. Saying that Beijing was ‘indignant’ over the matter, its foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday that the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been hardest hit by the outbreak. “When did patient zero begin ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken out against a proposal to remove constitutional limits on the number of terms a president can serve. “The proposal made by Valentina Tereshkova to exclude the number of terms a president can serve from th...

International transfers of major arms during the five-year period 2015–19 increased by 5.5 per cent compared with 2010–14. According to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the largest exporters of arms during t...

The Kremlin said Monday that cooperation with Turkey is a top priority, confirming a meeting between the Russian and Turkish presidents on Thursday over escalating tensions in Syria. Russia attaches “great importance to cooperation with our Turkish...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the apparent frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race, said he would not attend this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, saying that the group offers a platform to leaders who “express bigo...

Beijing will begin receiving applications for tariff exemptions for 696 products from the United States, including medical equipment, crude oil, pork, beef, soybeans, starting 2 March, authorities announced on Tuesday. The news comes a month after ...

As of Thursday, the number of registered Wuhan coronavirus infections topped 65,213, while the death toll from the disease outbreak has risen to 1486. An advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) tracking the transmissibility of the new cor...

  A French government source said Tuesday that Paris has “no intention” of withdrawing its 200-soldier force from Iraq, AFP reported. “Since Friday we have reinforced security for our French soldiers deployed in Iraq,” Defense Minister Floren...