U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will not get a vote in Senate this year.
The Congress on Thursday sought to puncture claims on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's successful tour of the United States, saying the US Senate finally "exposed the hollowness and the falsity of the claims" made by Modi and his propagandists.
Key members of US Congress are not prepared to support military aid to Pakistan, said Elizabeth Trudeau, Director Office of Press Relations State Department, underscoring the strains in relations between the two countries.
A top Pakistani foreign affairs adviser on Monday regretted that the United States is not duly appreciating the country's struggle against the militants.
With issues like President's Rule in Arunachal Pradesh, Pathankot terror terror attack and JNU row set to generate heat in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached out to the opposition by convening a meeting of leaders of major political parties on Tuesday.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders's smashing victories in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday have complicated the path for U.S. Congress to approve the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal this year, with the booming anti-trade fervor haunting the 2016 presidential campaign.
The 10th National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP), Laos' most significant political event, came to a close on Friday afternoon here after the election of the party leader.
The opening ceremony of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) was held in capital Hanoi on Thursday morning.
The 12th National Party Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) came under the spotlight in a series of articles recently posted by foreign press outlets. The Russian “People’s News” newspaper on January 20 carried a story titled “Vietnam confirms renewal policy”.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday night called on Congress to authorize the use of military force against the extremist group of Islamic State (IS).
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a 607-billion-U.S.-dollar annual defense policy bill despite its continued ban on transferring detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison to the United States.
The mass shootings at students on U.S. campus became rampant recently considering two of such incidents taking place in just more than one week, thus raising the long-time debate over stiffer gun control by the U.S. government.
Trade ministers of the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries have reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact, but the final ratification of the ambitious deal in the TPP members' countries is far from certain, particularly in the United States.
Days after the South Carolina black church massacre in June, a congressional proposal to lift an almost two-decade ban on federal studies about gun violence was raised in Congress without much fanfare. Neither was its blockage.
Vietnam has started collecting citizens' feedback on a draft political report by the 11th tenure of the Party Central Committee (PCC) which is being submitted to the 12th National Party Congress on Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday expressed optimism that the Obama administration will garner enough support from Congress to implement the Iran nuclear deal.
The best chance to resolve the Iran nuclear issue through peaceful means will be squandered if Congress moves to reject the agreement negotiated with Tehran, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday.
简体中文
