Marc Filippino It’s been nearly one month since US President Donald Trump kicked off his bid to reconfigure the global ...

The president of Palau has pledged to maintain recognition of Taiwan, but warned that small countries needed to demonstrate ...

US and Philippine forces are to conduct their first “full battle test” for fighting together in flashpoints such as Taiwan or ...

The move would exempt car parts from the tariffs that Trump is imposing on imports from China to counter fentanyl production, as well from those levied on steel and aluminium — a “destacking” of the ...

Donald Trump had just nominated Fox TV’s Pete Hegseth as defence secretary. The question was rhetorical. It was obvious to both of us — and to almost everyone else outside the Mar-a-Lago bubble — that ...

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team has set its sights on the National Gallery of Art, as the billionaire’s so-called Department of ...

The Trump administration intends to press India to give online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart full access to its $125bn ...

The first non-European pontiff in centuries pioneered change but was not the radical liberal of conservative imaginings ...

Trump’s airing of frustration with Putin — who he has been markedly less ready to blame for the war than Zelenskyy — indicates his struggle to get the Russian president to agree to his proposals and ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will use a trip to Washington this week to make the case for global free trade, while also urging the Trump administration to cut punitive tariffs on UK car and steel exports.

Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine at the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the ...

Trump, so far, has defended Hegseth, but if the US defence secretary is later forced out, it would be an embarrassment for the president and a waste of political capital after the immense effort it ...