Refugees held on remote Pacific camps after trying to reach Australia by boat will be resettled in the US in a ‘one-off’ deal, the premier says, a breakthrough that could see the controversial facilities closed.

Eight people died and 36 were arrested in clashes between the Myanmar army and what the government believes are Rohingya Muslim militants in northern Rakhine State, state media said on Sunday ...

Donald Trump appears to have softened his stance on a range of sweeping campaign pledges, saying in his first interview since his election as US president that he might not repeal Obamacare and that prosecuting Hillary Clinton over confidential emails was not a priority.

Fears for how Trump’s America will unfold have spurred activists to start organising aggressively and creatively for his presidency, from starting self-defence classes for women to calling on people to move to swing states.

US President Barack Obama’s administration has suspended its efforts to win congressional approval for his Asian free-trade deal before president-elect Donald Trump takes office, saying on Friday that TPP’s fate was up to Trump and Republican lawmakers.

Politicians suspected of profiting from Brazil’s biggest-ever corruption scandal are drafting legislation aimed at letting themselves off the hook, the country’s chief prosecutor said on Friday.

Topping off a year of economic crisis that left many Venezuelans hungry, the country’s socialist government is flooding shops with products ahead of Christmas, at prices that most cannot afford.

US president-elect Donald Trump is seeking quick ways of withdrawing from a global agreement to limit climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying widening international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Afghanistan’s parliament yesterday dismissed three government ministers including that of foreign affairs over poor performance, in a blow to President Ashraf Ghani’s fragile government.

Four Americans were killed yesterday in a suicide bombing inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said, in a major breach of security.

Some 10,000 followers of the Alawite sect and ethnic Kurds took to the streets of the western German city of Cologne yesterday to protest against the policies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Five days of UN-sponsored talks on ending the decades-old division of Cyprus have adjourned without a breakthrough but negotiators vowed yesterday to press on even as prospects fade for a deal this year.