Jonathan Rugman , Foreign Affairs Correspondent

The North Koreans have said President Trump talked “a load of nonsense about fire and fury” and they’ve responded with a threat of their own: to launch missiles into the sea off the US territory of Guam in the Pacific. Mr Trump has begun a meeting with his national security advisors, after his administration stood…

Police in France have shot and wounded a man after a dramatic motorway car chase near Boulogne. The incident came after the same car was driven into a group of soldiers in a suburb of Paris, injuring six of them. There have been six previous attacks on French security forces so far this year and…

There were cheers from ANC members of Parliament tonight after the South African President Jacob Zuma managed to survive a no-confidence vote – held, for the first time by secret ballot. But dozens of ANC MPs joined the opposition to vote against Zuma, who’s faced a series of corruption allegations and has presided over an…

Major developments in the North Korean nuclear standoff. Reports in the US media claim Pyongyang has successfully constructed a miniaturised nuclear warhead which could fit inside the type of missile it’s been testing. And experts fear those missiles are capable of reaching the US mainland.

The future of South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma now rests in the hands of MPs – and they’ll be allowed an anonymous vote. Opposition leaders said the decision to hold tomorrow’s no confidence vote by secret ballot was “groundbreaking”.

Now as President Trump heads to his golf resort in New Jersey tonight for a 17 day holiday – there will be no break for the special prosecutor investigating whether his campaign colluded with Russia during the election campaign. Instead Robert Mueller has upped the pressure – using a Grand Jury as part of his…

President Trump has grudgingly signed a bill to impose new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea – measures agreed overwhelmingly by Congress last week. He’s criticised the legislation as ‘deeply flawed’. It curbs his power to roll back penalties on Russia, and hurts his hopes of improving relations with the Kremlin.

President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director – just ten days after he was brought into the White House staff.

Crisis, what crisis?  Donald Trump has denied allegations of chaos inside the White House as he held a Cabinet meeting with his new chief of staff John Kelly. On their immediate agenda, a series of potential flashpoints from the unrest we’ve just reported in Venezuela and Russia’s decision to expel hundreds of US diplomats, to…

It was a night of breathtaking drama, as three Republican senators broke ranks to derail a seven-year effort by their own party to scrap Obama’s healthcare law. Among them, John McCain, who’d delayed his cancer treatment to vote. That would be enough turmoil for most administrations, but not President Trump’s White House. His new communications…

President Trump has said transgender people cannot serve in “any capacity” in the military. Using, inevitably, Twitter, he said he’d been told by military experts that the measure launched by the Obama Administration caused “tremendous medical costs and disruption”.

“You’re probably right.” That’s the answer Donald Trump’s new communications chief gave when asked whether the President wants his Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. Such is the precariousness of Mr Sessions’ position tonight, with his boss tweeting about how weak he is. The White House dysfunction is distracting lawmakers from another crucial issue –…

“All of my actions were proper, I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so,” Jared Kushner has declared in a rare public statement at the White House within the last hour. Mr Kushner, who’s one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers as well as his…

Donald Trump has again had to defend his son Donald Junior. The US President was welcomed to France today by perhaps an unlikely ally in France’s new centrist president.

In Iraq, the second city, Mosul, has fallen, although there are still Islamic State forces in that country. So where are they and how strong are they?