Politics & Government News

7:33 AM on Monday, October 20

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has rejected calls from some in his party to relax its refusal to deal with the far-right Alternative for Germany

6:58 AM on Monday, October 20

A major road connecting the three Baltic states to Poland has opened, at a time of rising tensions between Europe and Russia

6:45 AM on Monday, October 20

5:38 AM on Monday, October 20

Iraq’s prime minister says a small group of U.S. military advisers will stay in the country to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria against the Islamic State group

5:25 AM on Monday, October 20

The Philippines has unveiled a new jail that may soon house powerful legislators and officials implicated in a massive corruption scandal

5:16 AM on Monday, October 20

11:43 PM on Sunday, October 19

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has delivered a speech on the opening day of a major Communist Party meeting

8:21 PM on Sunday, October 19

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her party secured a crucial coalition partner

7:24 PM on Sunday, October 19

China has reported that its economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July-September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand

5:44 PM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump says the United States could buy Argentine beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers

5:34 PM on Sunday, October 19

Bolivian election authority says preliminary results show that centrist Rodrigo Paz has won presidential race

5:01 PM on Sunday, October 19

China has expanded its export rules on rare earths, requiring foreign firms to get approval for exporting products containing even small amounts of China-originated materials

6:01 AM on Sunday, October 19

It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance

5:56 AM on Sunday, October 19

Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug leader’ and announces an end to US aid to the country (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Trump called Petro an 'illegal drug dealer')

2:45 AM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump has suggested that the Donbas region of Ukraine should be divided, leaving most of it under Russian control, to end the ongoing war

2:29 AM on Sunday, October 19

Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift have been buoyed after Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who campaigned on getting back to negotiating a two-zone federation with rival Greek Cypriots after an eight-year stalemate

1:17 AM on Sunday, October 19

Kenyan former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been buried at his rural home amid political uncertainty over the future of opposition in a country that has previously been marred by post election violence and anti-government protests

9:20 PM on Saturday, October 18

Preliminary results show that Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, has won Bolivia’s presidential election, galvanizing voters outraged by the country’s economic crisis and frustrated with 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party

8:01 PM on Saturday, October 18

One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as its top leader Xi Jinping and other ruling Communist Party elites gather to map the country’s goals for the next five years

11:23 AM on Monday, September 29