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President Donald Trump faces pressure to choose a new Pentagon chief quickly amid rising tensions with Iran, but the abrupt and messy withdrawal of his previous pick, Patrick Shanahan, has raised

The world’s most powerful central bank is making clear it thinks the law is on its side if President Donald Trump tries to remove Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman.

A ghost town in Cyprus’s Turkish-controlled north has become the latest pawn in the conflict surrounding Turkey’s drilling for natural gas off the island’s shore.

The Philippine government has fallen in with Beijing’s explanation that a Chinese vessel didn’t intentionally hit a Filipino boat in the South China Sea on June 9.

Boris Johnson surged even further ahead of his rivals in the contest to become the U.K.’s next prime minister on Wednesday.

Today in Brexit: Boris Johnson extends his lead, and drops a hint about an early election.

Malaysia’s central bank is strengthening safeguards to avoid a repeat of the 1MDB scandal, Governor Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus said in a wide-ranging interview.

India’s lower house of parliament elected Om Birla, a second-term federal lawmaker from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, as speaker to oversee a chamber known for its rowdy debates and frequent

President Donald Trump has confirmed he will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Japan next week to relaunch trade talks after a month-long stalemate. Bloomberg’s Derek Wallbank reports on

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is “strong evidence” supporting a U.S. accusation that Iran was behind last week’s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

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Japan rejected a South Korean proposal for a joint compensation fund to resolve a dispute over colonial-era forced labor claims, in the latest sign of strain between the two U.S. allies.

Lawmakers on Wednesday held the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on reparations, spotlighting the debate over whether the United States should consider compensation for the

For one night in a packed arena in Orlando, President Donald Trump tried to recapture the insurgent energy and anything-might-happen feel of the campaign that fueled his bid for the White House four

The Trump administration is weighing three sanctions packages to punish Turkey over its purchases of the Russian S-400 missile-defense system, according to people familiar with the matter.

Chinese state media lashed out at U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, calling him an “anti-China clown” who has influenced other lawmakers against Beijing after he proposed legislation to prevent Huawei

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for starting a “new chapter” with North Korea in a newspaper commentary published in Pyongyang ahead of the first visit by a Chinese leader in 14 years.

The country is questioning its decades-old dependence on the U.S. market—and starting to look elsewhere.

South Africa simply has to rescue the nation’s distressed power utility. Even though it can’t afford to.