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Critics argue President Trump has overstepped his constitutional authority by slashing congressionally approved aid.

A United States appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can proceed with efforts to slash foreign aid payments, despite such funds being designated by Congress.

The two-to-one ruling on Wednesday overturned a previous injunction that required the Department of State to resume the payments, including about $4bn for the US Agency for International Development (USAID)…

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Alaska for talks on the war in Ukraine.

But concern is increasing in Kyiv and among its European allies over fears of Ukraine being sidelined.

So, what’s at stake at the Alaska summit for all sides?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests: 

Anatol Lieven – Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible…

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has signed into law a controversial piece of legislation that would shield the military, police and other government-sanctioned forces from prosecution for human rights abuses committed during the country’s decades-long internal conflict.

On Wednesday, Boluarte held a signing ceremony at the presidential palace in Lima, where she defended the amnesty law as a means of honouring the sacrifices made by government forces.

“This is a historic day for our…

Israeli forces opened fire on starving Palestinians waiting for food in the Sudaniyya neighborhood, just outside the Zikim border crossing in north Gaza, on July 25. 

“This is the first time that my brothers have gone there to search for flour. Their phones are shut down,” Malek Shinbari, a displaced Palestinian in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, wrote on his Facebook page on that day. “There’s news of a new massacre. I am burning inside, and I don’t know what to…