In a place where weasel words often pass muster, the most powerful intelligence officials in the world delivered a message to the United States Congress in clear, concise terms — China is a threat to America. Instances of military aggression, cyberattacks, bullying of smaller neighbours and attempts to interfere in western politics were referenced. Director of National Security Dan Coats …

God wanted Donald Trump to be United States president and that is why he supports things important to people of faith, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has told a US religious broadcaster. In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network, Ms Sanders said Mr Trump was the most conservative president in US history. “I think God calls all of us …

Tired but smiling, an 18-year-old Saudi runaway who said she feared death if deported back home has arrived in Canada, which had offered her asylum in a case that attracted global attention after she mounted a social media campaign. “This is Rahaf Alqunun, a very brave new Canadian,” Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said arm-in-arm with the Saudi teen in Toronto’s …

A US Government committee will look into a news report claiming the FBI investigated whether President Donald Trump has been working on behalf of Russia, against US interests. It comes after the New York Times reported that the probe began in the days after Mr Trump fired James Comey as FBI director in May 2017. It said the agency’s counterintelligence investigators …

Thousands of demonstrators are flooding a downtown avenue in Buenos Aires to protest the G20 summit taking place in the Argentinian capital. The protesters are waving flags and holding up banners with slogans including “Go away G-20” and “Go away Trump”. Activists from France, Germany, Italy and several Latin American nations are taking part alongside Argentinians in a demonstration organised …

French President Emmanuel Macron has stepped up the pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, confronting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 summit in Argentina. Mr Macron reportedly told Prince Mohammed that international experts need to be involved in the investigation into the journalist’s death. Mr Macron’s demand came shortly before Theresa May held …

Add Brazil to the list of countries embracing far-right authoritarian politics. Former Army captain  won the country’s presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world’s fourth-largest democracy, official results show. With 94 per cent of the ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 per cent of …

Just like every other right-thinking, virtue-signalling big mouth here in the US, I am appalled – appalled! – at President Donald Trump’s refusal to call out that thuggish Prince Mohammed bin Salman over Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. But my righteous anger just can’t get seem to get airborne. The thing is, Mr Trump’s coddling of …

Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for work in integrating climate change and technological innovation into economic analysis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Proceedings have been overshadowed by the absence of the literature prize, postponed to give the Swedish Academy time to restore public trust after a sexual assault scandal. Mr …

Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as a US Supreme Court justice, just hours after the Senate backed President Donald Trump’s nominee 50 votes to 48. Even as Mr Kavanaugh took his oath of office in a quiet private ceremony, not long after the narrowest Senate confirmation in nearly 150 years, protesters chanted outside the court building across the street …