International

Mette Frederiksen, 41, has become Denmark’s youngest leader, the third centre-left prime minister to take office in a Nordic country this year. She presented her minority government to Queen Margrethe II. Her Social Democrat party […]

For more than a year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in has tried to act as a mediator between the U.S. and North Korea. But now, a North Korean official said he needs to stop. On […]

Australia’s three largest media organizations joined forces on Wednesday to demand legal reforms that would prevent journalists from risking imprisonment for doing their jobs. The demands came after unprecedented raids against media organizations by police […]

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing “hard-hitting” new sanctions on Iran in response to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone last week. “We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran, […]

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order issuing “hard-hitting” sanctions against Iran, saying it would deny Iran’s supreme leader access to financial instruments. “Today’s action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian […]

Israel will examine U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan in “a fair and open manner”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Netanyahu made the statement while touring the Jordan Valley – the […]

Angela Merkel has said Germany must rigorously fight rightwing extremism after the murder of a prominent politician. The arrest of a man with suspected far-right sympathies over the shooting this month of Walter Lübcke, a […]

Iran has executed a former defence ministry employee on charges of spying for the US, state media report. Jalal Hajizavar was convicted by a military court after spying equipment and documents were found at his […]

Two more Americans — a man from Kansas and a woman from Pennsylvania — died during vacations in the Dominican Republic, amid a recent spate of tourist deaths in the country, according to a new […]