Political News, Analysis and Opinion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army plans to deploy two specialized task forces to the Pacific capable of conducting information, electronic, cyber and missile operations against Beijing, a Pentagon official … Read More

By Martin Petty and Colin Packham MERIMBULA, Australia/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian authorities urged another mass evacuation across the heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather fanned … Read More

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth slowed in December after surging in the prior month, but the pace of hiring is enough to keep the longest economic … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – Iran is examining ‘black boxes’ from a Ukrainian jet that crashed on Wednesday in a fireball shortly after taking off from Tehran, sparking an international hunt for … Read More

By Alexander Cornwell and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 … Read More

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition is calling on the United States and other countries to step up pressure on Russia over its support for socialist Venezuelan President … Read More

By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) – The main Irish nationalist and pro-British unionist parties in Northern Ireland agreed to return to a power-sharing government on Friday after a three-year hiatus, … Read More

By Howard Schneider and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The idea of imposing a wealth tax on the richest Americans has elicited sharply divergent views across a spectrum of … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn’s lawyer on Friday told Japan’s government that the authorities had failed to arrange for a fair trial that respected universal rights. Francois … Read More

MILAN (Reuters) – The main Italian motorway lobby group AISCAT and Atlantia’s toll road unit, Autostrade per l’Italia, said on Friday that highway tunnels in the country were safe, denying … Read More