Timor-Leste is seeking to have the case dismissed later this month, but if it is unsuccessful it says it will fight the lawsuit at trial. As blackouts crippled Timor-Leste, its leaders scrambled ...

The most striking aspect of President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) isn’t that unsavory aid recipients have misused taxpayer dollars.

Peter Marocco, a Trump loyalist and the architect of efforts to slash USAID as part of President Donald Trump's massive federal cuts, wrote in his eight-page affidavit that the agency is "working ...

East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly half of its people live in poverty. Vendors at the Taibesi market in Dili ...

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, also agreed to block an order that would have given the thousands of overseas USAID workers the administration wanted to place on abrupt ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top supervisor in the federal prosecutors’ office in Washington said she was forced to resign following a dispute with her boss over a directive that she scrutinize the ...

Unless there is alternative funding to the wiheld USAID aid, the lives of millions of needy Ugandans, including the sick and poor will be at stake, said leaders of civil society organisations ...

FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: When Elon Musk at least temporarily shuttered USAID, a program within it called Food for Peace immediately shut down. That's sparked anxiety from Afghanistan to South Sudan ...

TOKYO -- Japan and Australia are partnering to foster the development of IT personnel in Pacific island nations, looking to counter China's growing presence in the region. Japan's Ministry of ...

TOKYO -- Just a few weeks into Donald Trump's U.S. presidency, diplomatic and economic tensions between the U.S. and China are intensifying. On Feb. 4, Trump imposed an additional 10% tariff on ...