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Raised voices could be heard through the thick door to the Oval Office as John Kelly then Secretary of Homeland Security offered some tough talk to President Donald Trump. Mr.…

At least 24 people have been killed and 42 injured after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul on Monday, an official told AFP, the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced mounting pressure on Sunday over new security measures at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site after a weekend of violence left eight people dead, with…

China said on Thursday that diplomatic channels with India remained “unimpeded” to discuss the military stand-off in Sikkim sector but reiterated that the withdrawal of the Indian troops from Doklam…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he never would have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he had known the top law official would recuse himself from a probe…

The US is “closely and carefully” following the border standoff between India and China, the Trump administration said today, urging the two Asian countries to engage in direct dialogue to…

US Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election, was on Wednesday diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. The 80-year-old has had non-invasive melanomas removed at least…

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate a Raytheon Co lobbyist, Mark Esper, for the position of secretary of the Army, the White House said on Wednesday. The position has…

In sharp contrast to a spate of Chinese write-ups and web-postings exhorting Beijing to adopt a more muscular approach in Doklam, a widely circulating WeChat posting is denouncing war as an option…

The Indonesian government on Wednesday banned Hizbut Tahrir, an organisation that wants to establish a global caliphate, under a new presidential decree criticised as draconian by rights groups. The decree…

U.S. President Donald Trump had a second undisclosed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of G20 summit in Germany early this month, according to media reports. The…

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency has named the speaker of Parliament a suspect in a corruption scandal in which officials allegedly pocketed more than $170 million in government money. The chief of…