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President-elect Donald Trump's decision to empower his running mate Mike Pence to steer the presidential transition gives the soon-to-be vice president a powerful hand in shaping the incoming government and could foreshadow that he will play an outsized r...

Twitter users have flooded the micro-blogging website with calls to "assassinate" the President-elect Donald Trump and the US authorities were probing the threat, media reported on Saturday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday voiced confidence that Donald Trump will not seek to undo the Paris climate deal despite his campaign pledge to cancel the landmark agreement on combating global warming.

Elsewhere in California, more than 1,000 students at Berkeley High School staged a walk-out and marched to the campus of the University of California.

Pakistan on Wednesday deported National Geographic's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl" to her native Afghanistan after a regional court had convicted her on charges of carrying a forged Pakistani ID card and staying in the country illegally.

Indo-US ties "go beyond" the friendship of the American President and the Indian Prime Minister, US envoy Richard Verma on Wednesday said after Republican Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States.

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called her Republican rival Donald Trump in the wee hours to concede defeat after the veteran Democrat lost out to the political outsider in the bitter US presidential elections.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday beat Republican rival Donald Trump in Dixville Notch, a small town in New Hampshire that traditionally votes just after midnight before the Presidential election balloting starts elsewhere in the US later in t...

Highlighting the sharp contrast between her vision for the US and that of Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has said the country's "core values" were at stake in the polls as she urged people to vote for an "inclusive" and "big-hearted" A...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said at his penultimate rally before Tuesday's election that his party will get the White House back.

President Barack Obama on Monday urged Americans to make history by electing Democrat Hillary Clinton to succeed him in the White House, and reject the "mean-spirited" politics of Donald Trump.

Australia's parliament on Monday rejected the government's proposal for a national vote on whether to legalise same-sex marriage.

The UK’s Opposition Labour party has called on British Prime Minister Theresa May to “come clean” about the role played by Britain in Operation Blue Star before her three-day visit to India starting on Sunday.

Three US military trainers were shot dead in Jordan on Friday when their car failed to stop at the gate of a military base and was fired on by Jordanian security forces, a Jordanian military source said.

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trumps campaign has announced that it will hold a "victory party" for friends and supporters on election night, signalling confidence that he will win the race to the White House on November 8.

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck central Italy on Thursday morning in the same region hit by recent strong quakes, the U.S. Geological Survey said.