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The premier of South Africa’s richest province warned the ruling African National Congress will lose its majority and extend an economic slump if it elects the wrong leaders this weekend.

You can’t sue Donald Trump for tweeting that you’re a “real dummy!” and a “major loser” with “zero credibility” -- or for saying you “begged” him for a job on his presidential campaign when you insist

The European Union warned the U.K. against rowing back on the agreements it made last week as leaders prepare to hand Britain its first reward in the Brexit negotiations.

President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is “brutal and corrosive,” former French President Francois Hollande said in an interview.

An adviser to President Vladimir Putin said cryptocurrencies may help Russian banks avoid international sanctions, the Rambler News Service reported Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin receives reports of U.S. counterpart Donald Trump’s tweets because they’re considered to be official White House statements, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died Tuesday after collapsing at his neighborhood Safeway store.

Saudi Arabia is setting up an organization to manage assets relinquished by detainees as part of settlement agreements in the crackdown on corruption, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

As Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes South Korea’s Moon Jae-in to Beijing, he’ll be showing off the gains of a foreign policy shift that has seen China tamp down several disputes with its

President Donald Trump set off a Twitter war of words on Tuesday with three of the Senate’s most powerful women, after his attack on Kirsten Gillibrand was answered by Elizabeth Warren, who accused

Saudi Arabia will implement a cash transfer program for poorer citizens as it gradually raises domestic energy prices under a plan to repair public finances and reduce the economy’s reliance on oil.

Zimbabwe's presidential spokesman says former leader Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, are on their first trip abroad since Mugabe resigned last month under pressure from the military and ruling

House and Senate Republicans are working this week on compromise tax-overhaul legislation in an effort to send it to President Donald Trump as soon as next week. Here are the latest developments,

Alabama voters go to the polls in a special Senate election Tuesday that has drawn nationwide attention to the campaigns of Doug Jones and Roy Moore. Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli reports on "Bloomberg

Ed Lee, San Francisco’s the city's first Asian-American mayor, died suddenly early Tuesday at age 65.

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Elon Musk’s rocket company is about take another step toward making space flight cheaper.

European Union lawmakers are deliberating the composition of kebab meat as they tackle the bloc’s latest dispute over food safety.

President Donald Trump’s spat with Theresa May over his retweeting anti-Muslim videos posted by a far-right group was all a misunderstanding, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Woody Johnson said on Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin Corp. will deliver its eight remaining Littoral Combat Ships an average of 11 months late, more than twice the five-month delay for rival shipbuilder Austal Ltd., the U.S. Navy