Emerging victorious from a campaign rife with vitriolic anti-immigrant rhetoric, president-elect Donald Trump has waffled on the specifics of his looming immigration policy.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as a “serious” contender to become the next US secretary of state, a top aide to president-elect Donald Trump said yesterday, amid reports of intense infighting over key posts in the new administration.

Democrats, civil rights groups and even some Republicans slammed US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday for choosing right-wing firebrand Stephen Bannon as a key aide, saying it would elevate the white nationalist movement into the top levels of the White House.

Republican Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to shake up Washington and as president the brash real estate mogul will be in a position to dramatically change how the United States handles immigration, trade and a range of other policies.

Multinational companies are selling their Venezuelan operations at hefty discounts – or even giving them away – as they to seek to escape the Opec nation’s soaring inflation and chronic supply shortages.

President Rodrigo Duterte met with former president Fidel V Ramos in Malacanang on Monday, weeks after the latter resigned as the country’s special envoy to China.

Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has ordered the dismissal of Senator Emmanuel Joel Villanueva after he was found liable for the alleged misuse of his P10mn Priority ...

Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar roundly refused to apologise over war crime allegations in an audio message to AFP, even as his group attempts to rebrand from a radical, misogynistic movement to a mainstream political force.

US forces may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan from 2003-2004 by torturing prisoners in what appeared to be a deliberate policy, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has said.

Sixty-five previously unknown drawings by Vincent Van Gogh have been discovered, the French publishers Le Seuil said yesterday, in one of the biggest art world discoveries in France in years.

Several thousand Belgian military personnel marched yesterday in the streets of Brussels over a rise in the pension age, at times clashing with police.

Turkey is “fed up” with European Union condescension in talks over its application to join the bloc, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday, reflecting Ankara’s exasperation with EU criticism over human rights.