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Speaking at a conference at Harvard University Pierre Moscovici, European commissioner for economic and financial affairs, said Trump’s win was a “political wake-up call” that demonstrates a decline of democratic values and a rise of populist ideas in both the...

Syrian government and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria Wednesday, including battered second city Aleppo, where food aid rations were all-but-exhausted after months of regime siege.

Tokyo, Nov. 12 (Jiji Press)-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his visiting Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, travelled on a Shinkansen bullet train together from Tokyo to the western Japan city of Kobe on Saturday.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said on Friday her push for election recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania was aimed at assessing the integrity of the US voting system, not at undermining Donald Trump’s White House victory.

Just hours after announcing he was not going to pursue an investigation of Hillary Clinton over her use of a personal email server, he indicated another important U-turn – this time in regard to climate.

“We do expect some form of agreement, but oil market reaction will hinge on the credibility of the proposed action”, said USA investment bank Jefferies on Friday, adding that recent output increases to record levels in many countries now required a deep cut for it to...

Assange insists the sexual encounters in question were consensual.

To talk about this, we are joined by NPR’s Jim Zarroli.

The latest development will make it very long and risky for IS if it attempts to move fighters and equipment between Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa, the last two bastions of their crumbling “state”.

Largely unknown outside of MI political and philanthropic circles, her appointment signals that Trump intends to make school choice and a voucher plan for low-income families a centerpiece of his education agenda.

The election results have also bolstered plenty of criticism of the Electoral College itself, with many people, including Trump, suggesting they’d prefer to see the process rely on the popular vote. “Quite honestly, Mr. Trump is not the president-elect”, said...

“The decision for a fourth term, after 11 years in office, is anything but trivial for the country, the party – and I say it consciously in this order – for me personally”, she told reporters, striking a serious, nearly somber tone.

During the USA presidential campaign, Trump refered to Hillary Clinton as “Crooked Hillary” and had said that she would be in jail if he becomes the president. Trump defeated Clinton by a projected approximate amount of 70 Electoral College votes despite losing the...

But, he said, there were no current threats against Finland, which shares a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) border with Russian Federation. Moscow has also complained strongly against the deployment of Nato’s military units near Russia’s borders. “The alliance is a...

President Barack Obama pardoned his last Thanksgiving turkey on Wednesday (Nov 23), an annual tradition that sees the USA leader spare two birds – the centrepiece of most holiday tables – from the carving knife.