Politics & Government News

5:47 AM on Friday, November 28

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin to discuss energy imports

4:22 AM on Friday, November 28

Afghanistan has expressed “deep regret" and strong condemnation of a cross-border attack into neighboring Tajikistan that killed three Chinese workers and wounded a fourth

3:49 AM on Friday, November 28

A high court in Kenya has declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have called a landmark win for food security

2:16 AM on Friday, November 28

Hungary's Viktor Orbán to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow for energy talks (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert misspelled Hungary)

12:26 AM on Friday, November 28

Trump vows to 'permanently pause' migration from poor nations in anti-immigrant social media screed

10:33 PM on Thursday, November 27

Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries and it faces a crisis of health care made worse by the Trump administration's deep cuts in foreign aid

10:27 PM on Thursday, November 27

Sri Lankan authorities say they have closed government offices and schools Friday as the death toll from landslides and floods across the country rose to 56

6:42 PM on Thursday, November 27

President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in DC attack

6:11 PM on Thursday, November 27

People who work with refugees are worried about backlash after authorities say an Afghan national shot National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., this week

5:08 PM on Thursday, November 27

Deposed Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló arrives in neighboring Senegal a day after coup

4:06 PM on Thursday, November 27

Renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern, a prominent figure of American architecture from the 1980s through present day, has died

3:24 PM on Thursday, November 27

Peru’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to 11.5 years in prison for conspiracy to commit a rebellion in 2022, when he tried to dissolve the Congress as lawmakers prepared to impeach him

1:26 PM on Thursday, November 27

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan

12:37 PM on Thursday, November 27

The British government has welcomed the news that net migration in the U.K., the difference between people moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, but insisted that the figure must fall further to ease community tensions

11:35 AM on Thursday, November 27

Brazilian police have launched a major operation to dismantle a tax evasion and money-laundering scheme in the fuel sector

11:21 AM on Thursday, November 27

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has declared a nationwide emergency following two mass abductions of schoolchildren and recent attacks on civilians

10:55 AM on Thursday, November 27

Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine as a starting point for talks

4:01 AM on Thursday, November 27

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a disputed presidential election and led to deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló departing for neighboring Senegal

12:43 AM on Thursday, November 27

President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died, calling the shooter who had worked with the CIA in his native country a “savage monster.”

12:13 PM on Monday, November 10