Reuben Brigety’s resignation comes amid uncertainty over trade relations under the incoming US administration
China has raised ‘serious concerns’ over Washington’s trade curbs on Chinese businesses
Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni suggested the government could demarche the Polish ambassador for diplomatic offence
South African journalists and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security were stuck in Poland despite the president having earlier met Poland’s leader
Julian Assange is our Antigone. He is awaiting extradition to the US for spying for the people, making public a small part of the obscene dark side of US policy
The Biden administration woos the continent’s leaders at summit but believes it is futile to try to turn the tide on China’s massive infrastructure spending
Washington fears that Huawei will provide Beijing with a way to spy on communications from the countries that use its products and services
Trump stepped back from launching US airstrikes inside Iran, but the conflict is unabated and there appears to be no way out of confrontation for now
In Singapore, Kim signed a vaguely-worded deal on denuclearisation, touted by Trump as a historic breakthrough
Venezuela will prosecute seven lawmakers who backed last week’s failed uprising orchestrated by opposition leader Juan Guaido
The much-anticipated second meeting between the two leaders was supposed to build on their historic first summit in Singapore
Iran’s president on Monday blasted a US "conspiracy" against the country as vast crowds marked 40 years since the Islamic revolution
Eighteen months into his investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller has the US capital spellbound
Students in over 800 cities and towns are calling for tougher gun control laws in the United States, demanding an end to gun violence
Donald Trump has vowed to exit the Paris Climate accord, just not yet, leaving US policy in limbo for the next three years.
President Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that the US will have to slash its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755
Reinvigorated after a spell of the "diplomacy of ubuntu", our man in Washington is coming home.
From January 1, cannabis growers can legally trade marijuana in parts of the United States. The legalisation of pot is expected to boost US tourism.
After freezing financial aid to Kigali, Washington has indicted it is ready to lift sanctions against Rwanda if it severs ties with rebel group M23.
Aaron Alexis’s mother has said sorry to the victims caught up in the shooting spree by the former navy reservist.
Bashar al-Assad has denied that his forces used chemical weapons on civilians, warning the US that a military intervention in Syria would fail.
Despite global criticism of Egypt’s security crackdown on protesters, the US has not pledged to put a ban on its $1.3-billion in annual aid to Egypt.
Washington’s marriage law has kicked in and more than 800 couples state-wide have received marriage licenses on the first day.
Washington says it’s deploying forces to cope with violence in as many as 18 different locations as deadly Muslim anger spreads over a US-made movie.
Many HIV survivors did not expect to live to become elderly, and their retirement years are bleak and lonely, writes Sarah Bosely.
US President Barack Obama has called for negotiations between the leaders of the two countries to settle their conflict and end fighting.
When President Barack Obama criticised Mitt Romney by name this week, he worded his attack carefully and with bite.
In a five-event, two city, 1 700 mile fund-raising odyssey, US President Obama managed to amass over $5-million in funding for his electoral campaign.
As Republicans feud, President Barack Obama this week takes his re-election blueprint of economic justice, direct and unfiltered, to the voters.
Oil prices fell to near $101 a barrel on Monday in Asia amid investor concern over the outcome of a meeting between the leaders of Germany and France.
Having said no to taxes for months, Republicans now are saying maybe in the face of public disgust over a deadlock in the US Congress.
Rifts between the United States and Pakistan over the Osama bin Laden killing have been mended during CIA meetings in Washington.