The dollar rallied sharply on Tuesday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pledged tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico, and additional tariffs on China. Stocks declined, giving back some ...

President-elect Donald Trump vowed additional tariffs on China as well as US neighbors Canada and Mexico, roiling markets with his first specific threat to curb global trade flows since his election ...

Global tech giants including Meta, TikTok and Google have heavily criticized Australian legislation to ban children under 16 from accessing social media platforms, setting the stage for a policy fight ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left government wants to pass the bill, which represents some of the toughest controls on children’s social media use imposed by any country, into law by the ...

Maria Ressa, Nobel laureate and CEO of Filipino news outlet Rappler, believes South Africa’s traditional media is strong, but that won’t last, posing an ongoing threat to democracy.

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Five European countries will step up their support to strengthen Ukraine’s defence industry, Germany’s defence minister said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has so far avoided legal liability for his part in the Phala Phala case. This week, the Constitutional Court will hear the EFF and ATM’s bid challenging the National Assembly ...

Despite his personal tribulations, during his entire Senate career he had maintained a family life for his sons, commuting daily from Wilmington to Washington by train. Later, he found a second love, ...

The US Justice Department has moved to drop the 2020 election obstruction case against Donald Trump, asking a judge to dismiss the extraordinary federal prosecution of a former president whose ...

The United Nations has become a political machine which appears to have lost its moral compass, while citizens who value democracy, who fight for human rights and who are the subject of repression ...

Lack of funding and sharp political divisions have derailed the implementation of the Economic Community of West African States’ counterterrorism plan.