US Vice-President Kamala Harris has passed the threshold to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in a vote of party delegates. Speaking by telephone, Ms Harris said she was “honoured to

It’s something Vladimir Putin does rarely: go to the airport to meet people off a plane. Personally. But he was there last night: on the tarmac at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport

Mystery surrounds an American woman who was found chained to a tree “screaming” in a forest in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Lalita Kayi, 50, was discovered a week

The United States will deploy additional warships and fighter jets to the Middle East to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies, the Pentagon said. Tensions

The US secretary of state has said there was “overwhelming evidence” Venezuela’s opposition won the recent presidential election. In a statement Antony Blinken said it was clear Edmundo González, had

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a pre-trial agreement reached with men accused of plotting the 11 September terrorist attacks. In a memo on Friday, Mr Austin also said

“I haven’t been able to see him. Or give him food. Or hand him his clothes. I don’t know if he has been beaten. I don’t know if he has

Katie Ledecky became the United States’ most decorated female Olympian and France’s Leon Marchand reached yet another final on a boisterous night of swimming in Paris. The USA – with

British tennis icon Andy Murray bowed out of professional tennis as his illustrious career ended with a straight-set defeat in the Olympic men’s doubles quarter-finals. Murray, the two-time Olympic singles

Millions of residents in northern Nigeria have been placed under 24-hour curfews amid nationwide protests against the high cost of living. Governments in the states of Kano, Jigawa, Yobe and