A five-hour meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff ends without any compromise on a plan to resolve the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

Trump has called Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ as his administration intensifies deportations in Minnesota.

The Iranian Parliament speaker says the United States is not genuinely seeking negotiations with Iran.

The Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro has said Caracas does not want peace if it means “slavery” to the US.

US military buildup against Venezuela reflects a long-standing attempt to reshape Latin America, aiming for “regime change” and control over the region’s vast oil resources, says a decolonial expert.

The White House supports War Secretary Hegseth’s ordering US forces to “kill everybody” on board a boat in the Caribbean, and authorizing a second lethal strike on the same vessel.

President Trump’s embattled FBI Director Kash Patel has received a scathing assessment of his first six months in office from some of his own employees.

The president of the International Criminal Court has vowed not to yield to pressure from the United States, after it imposed sanctions on senior court officials over the ICC’s investigations into Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Trump has barred South Africa from the 2026 G20 summit, citing debunked “white genocide” claims, escalating tensions tied to Pretoria’s ICJ genocide case against Israel and broader diplomatic rifts.

US President Donald Trump has confirmed that he held a phone call last week with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, but declined to provide further details.