President Joe Biden and European Union leaders delivered a message of unity Friday on the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine wars, despite worries that political paralysis in Washington could hamper US aid for its allies.

US President Joe Biden urgently requested Friday military aid for Ukraine and Israel in a massive $106 billion national security package, but Republican paralysis in Congress means it will hit an immediate wall.

US President Joe Biden is set to deliver a rare Oval Office speech Thursday urging Americans to back Israel and Ukraine at what he says is a perilous moment for democracy around the globe.

Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Tesla and Netflix report third-quarter results. The retail sales data will show the strength consumer spending in the U.S.

The future of US aid for Ukraine hangs in the balance after a last-gasp deal to avoid a government shutdown, despite President Joe Biden's attempts to reassure Kyiv it will get what it needs to fight Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes his second wartime visit to Washington on Thursday in a bid to win fresh aid to fight Russian invaders despite signs of war fatigue among US lawmakers.

The United States is less than two weeks away from a potential government shutdown, with the stakes increasing as lawmakers struggle to agree on a short-term spending bill.

Joe Biden, America's oldest ever president, said Monday he understood a focus on his age but that he was running for re-election because Donald Trump wanted to "destroy" US democracy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will pay his second wartime visit to Washington next week, the White House announced Friday, in a bid to solidify the support of his country's crucial backer which has shipped billions of dollars in aid to fight Russian invaders.

North Korea said Monday that leader Kim Jong Un would visit Russia and meet President Vladimir Putin, with the reclusive leader's armoured train reportedly on its way to the border.

The recent BRICS inclusion of six more nations from different regions suggests better geographical representation and greater alliances within the global south.

Former President Donald Trump claimed he would use his relationship with the Ukrainian and Russian leaders to urge them to make a peace deal.

Russia responded to NATO vows of support for Ukraine with air strikes and nuclear sabre-rattling on Thursday, as US President Joe Biden held talks in the alliance's newest member Finland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said he would never surrender any of his country's territories to bring an end to the war.

President Joe Biden arrived in Britain Sunday where he will meet King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before continuing to Vilnius for a NATO summit, then a final stop in new NATO member Finland.

A post on Trump's Truth Social account Tuesday described Biden as a "confirmed, and very dangerous, idiot."

Former President Donald Trump made this recent claim during his 2024 campaign rally in South Carolina.

President Joe Biden, 80, confused Iraq for Ukraine on two separate occasions on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.

A royal commentator thinks Harry is "out of touch" with "reality" for allegedly thinking he could get hold of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump for a podcast.

The radical differences in how Beijing and Washington perceive the new geopolitical landscape are most pronounced in the South China Sea.

Harry floated the concept to fulfill his part in the reported $20 million deal he and his wife Meghan Markle signed with Spotify

Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov doesn't view himself as a predictor of the future.

Former President Donald Trump claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he won the 2020 election.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been in diplomatic hyperdrive since taking office, making Brazil a key global player again -- but stoking controversy with some of his stances, including on Ukraine and Venezuela.

Former President Donald Trump tried to spook a Republican audience about the possibility of a Third World War if he doesn't win next year's general election.

Brash, ebullient and a self-made billionaire, four-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was a media mogul and political showman whose financial and sexual scandals made him the most polarising figure in modern Italy.

Silvio Berlusconi, who dominated Italian public life for decades as a billionaire media mogul, businessman and prime minister, has died aged 86.

China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 100 miles (160 km) from Florida, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, but the U.S.

Republican former vice president Mike Pence launched Monday his hotly-anticipated challenge to one-time boss Donald Trump for the party's 2024 White House nomination, setting up the unusual scenario of two running mates becoming rivals.

Yevgeny Prigozhin has been very vocal about Russia's failures in the war in Ukraine.