US & World

4-day tour includes events in Washington, D.C., New York and Virginia King Charles, centre left, and U.S. President Donald Trump, centre right, review the guard of honour at Windsor Castle during Trump’s 2025 state visit to the U.K. on Sept. 17, 2025, in Windsor, England. Charles begins a state visit …

Foreign minister meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin with no U.S. talks scheduled Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, arrives in St. Petersburg, Russia, for diplomatic talks on Monday. (Iranian Foreign Ministry/Anadolu/Getty Images)  Iranian sources on Monday disclosed Tehran’s latest proposal to bridge gaps with the U.S. over worldwide shipping woes …

Officials says person in custody after Secret Service rushed U.S. president out of gala ‘It was very quick,’ Trump says of security response at correspondents’ dinner  U.S. President Donald Trump took a question late Saturday from Weijia Jiang, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, after nearby gunfire sparked a …

Russian actions on Zaporizhzhia power plant pose similar threat, Zelenskyy says People dressed in hazmat suits place candles at a memorial for victims of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear plant disaster in the northern Ukrainian town of Slavutych on Sunday. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)  Ukraine commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl …

Negotiations were meant to follow face-to-face talks held earlier this month U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s no longer sending Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan in an attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations with Iran. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)  The latest ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran appeared …

31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen was identified as the shooting suspect on Saturday Cole Tomas Allen, a suspect in the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, is shown in this screengrab from a video lying on the floor after being detained by law enforcement personnel, in Washington, D.C., …

Talks come after tensions between Iran, U.S. escalated in Strait of Hormuz this week Trump sends U.S. envoys to Pakistan for new Iran talks  U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are heading to Pakistan for new talks with Iran’s foreign minister, the White House said Friday, though Iran hasn’t …

Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar deny Taiwanese president permission to fly over airspace This week, China was accused of putting pressure on three African countries to withdraw their permission to allow Taiwan President Lai Ching-te to fly over their territories, as he was set to visit Eswatini, the only diplomatic ally …

“There’s gunfire everywhere,” a witness said A Malian soldier stands in position with his weapon during an attack on Mali’s main military base Kati outside the capital Bamako, Mali, on Saturday. (Reuters)  Insurgents launched attacks in Mali’s capital of Bamako and other locations across the country on Saturday, with the army …

Widely criticized investigation threatened to delay confirmation of Trump’s pick for successor Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell addresses students at Harvard University on March 30 in Cambridge, Mass. (Charles Krupa/The Associated Press)  The Justice Department is ‌closing its investigation ​into cost overruns ​in renovations at the ​Federal Reserve ⁠under ⁠chairman ‌Jerome …