The US, it seems, couldn’t care less if it causes a humanitarian crisis in Somalia, one of the world’s poorest countries.
In the first round of historic talks between the two countries, the US vowed to continue giving Cubans safe haven, despite Cuba’s objections.
North Korea has compared President Barack Obama to a monkey and blamed the US for shutting down its internet amid the row over "The Interview".
Al Qaeda says Obama signed the death warrant of American photojournalist Luke Somers who was killed in a rescue operation along with Pierre Korkie.
Many world leaders are criticising the torture methods of the CIA, revealed this week in a US Senate report, and they are calling for legal action.
US President Barack Obama could have taken action but did not want to weaken the intelligence services.
The Senate report on CIA detention and interrogation found that detainees subjected to torture produced no intelligence or "fabricated information".
New York and New Jersey have agreed to impose even stricter measures on travelers from Ebola-hit West African countries.
United States President Barack Obama vowed to continue air strikes against Islamic State fighters and pledged to build more international support.
Air strikes won’t solve anything in Iraq and Syria, where the West is the problem, not the solution.
President Barack Obama has called the Ebola crisis a threat to world security and has sent up to 3 000 US military personnel to the region.
SA’s reaction to Kebby Maphatsoe’s CIA comments is a far cry from the tense relationship with the US under Thabo Mbeki, writes Verashni Pillay.
United States President Barack Obama has announced an open-ended bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned Nato and the US not to offer Ukraine membership of the alliance, ahead of a Nato summit.
Ukraine’s president has announced a ceasefire agreement with Russia, shortly before Nato’s deadline for a decision on involvement in the region.
After criticism of authorities’ use of military gear in Ferguson, Barack Obama has requested a probe into the battle-grade hardware sold to police.
The summit of African leaders was used by President Barack Obama as a platform for enthusiastic economic promises.
Recent events show that international and humanitarian law are often no more than forms of convenient discourse for those at war.
Many Africans feel America is lagging behind China and others in its engagement with their continent.
President Barack Obama will sign an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
US President Barack Obama has warned that the downing of a Malaysian jetliner in Ukraine should be a "wake-up call for Europe and the world".
The ANC chief whip’s office says the force Israel is using in Gaza is unjustifiable because innocent civilians, including children, are being killed.
Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on Thursday discussed a downed passenger plane during a phone call prompted by a new round of US sanctions.
Both Israeli and Hamas forces have ruled out an end to hostilities as the death toll from fighting in Gaza climbs to more than 100.
Islamist militants have seized the crossing near the border town of al-Qaim, after battling Iraqi troops.
Islamist militants have launched an assault in Baiji as Iran raises the prospect of military intervention in the embattled state.
The last US prisoner of war held in Afghanistan has been handed over to the US Special Operations in a dramatic swap for five Taliban detainees.
The last of the United States military forces will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 2001 attacks in New York.
US President Barack Obama has announced the deployment of about 80 military members to Chad to help find over 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls.
Dozens of people have been killed as fighting broke out on the streets of Odessa, opening a new front in a conflict that has split the country.
Unfortunately many see Mmusi Maimane as a puppet; there are people behind his rise, and those people are not black.
US President Barack Obama has announced new sanctions in a bid to stop President Vladimir Putin from fomenting the rebellion in eastern Ukraine.