A quiet, months-long battle between a Republican congressman and Bill and Hillary Clinton could come to a head this week.

Officials said the investigation had taken them in a “different direction”.

The 78-year-old, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a vocal democracy campaigner, faces potential life imprisonment.

The move marks a major shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join NATO as a safeguard against Russian attacks.

As hundreds braved bitterly cold conditions in the US capital to light the National Menorah, the horrific news and images from Sydney were top of mind.

Barely two months after the deadly Manchester synagogue attack, a senior Jewish figure in the UK says the Bondi massacre must be a line in the sand against religious hatred.

A tranche of documents about Jeffrey Epstein will be unsealed this week. What are they, and what might they reveal?

America used to be the conscience of the world. Those days are long gone.

It is little wonder that Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine. From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier.

At least two people have been killed and eight more injured in a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, US.

Australia has just introduced a world-leading sanctions regime against the Taliban, an important but insufficient step as the world turns away.

The prisoner release was by far the biggest since Trump’s administration opened talks this year with veteran authoritarian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.

It is the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since the Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect in October.

The family of Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre said they were “deeply disappointed” by the decision, adding that “justice has not been served”.

US President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two US service members and one American civilian were killed by IS in Syria.

US President Donald Trump has vowed to retaliate after two US servicemen and one American civilian were killed in Syria.

As Bashar al-Assad fled for Moscow, the doors of his notorious prison flew open. And one man, after six long years behind bars, made his way home, broken but alive.

A US security plan takes aim at European governments for being weak, with a fixation on open borders, political correctness and censorship.

Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons and blocking manoeuvres against 20 Philippine fishing boats off a disputed South China Sea shoal, the Philippine coast guard said.