The usually dignified US senate could see rising tensions along party lines as Donald Trump’s impeachment begins.

President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial quickly burst into a partisan fight as proceedings began unfolding at the Capitol.

US president Donald Trump is on the cusp of being impeached by the house of representatives.

US president Donald Trump was overheard asking about "the investigations" he wanted Ukraine to pursue that are central to the impeachment inquiry, a senior diplomat has said.

Impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump move on to the next stage today, with an inquiry beginning in the House of Representatives.

A sharply divided House of Representatives has approved the rules for its impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

A State Department foreign service officer will tell impeachment investigators former national security adviser John Bolton cautioned him that Rudy Giuliani “was a key voice with the president on Ukraine”, which could complicate US goals in the Eastern European country.

If Robert Mueller, an accomplished prosecutor, makes a case against Donald Trump it will be watertight legally — and that’s the danger for Trump, writes Bette Browne

The Philippine government's legal counsel has asked the Supreme Court to expel the chief justice for allegedly not declaring her assets, in a new attempt to remove the nation's judicial leader.

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has made a forceful plea to Peruvian politicians, insisting that a rushed impeachment proceeding would threaten the nation’s democracy.

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski will testify before Peruvian opposition politicians intent on throwing him out of office on Thursday in a sudden impeachment proceeding that threatens to make him the region’s first president to be ousted over the Odebrecht corruption scandal.

I reckon that only one in six students (4,540) on UCD’s Belfield campus in Stillorgan voted to fire their student union presisent, Katie Ascough. 

A California Democrat has filed an article of impeachment against US President Donald Trump which US political watchers acknowledge has little chance of success.

The Brazilian Senate is hearing prosecution and defence arguments in the impeachment case against president Dilma Rousseff ahead of a final vote on whether to remove her permanently.

Brazil's president has said she will appeal to South American trade blocs if she is removed from office, condemning the push to impeach her as a coup and a naked attempt by the country's elite to snatch power back from her Workers' Party.

Embattled Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff lashed out at the two men in line to succeed her if she is impeached, calling her vice president and the lower house speaker “heads of the conspiracy” to remove her from office.

A committee of Brazil’s lower house of Congress has voted 38-27 to recommend the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, who faces charges of breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014.

Brazil’s largest party has abandoned president Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition, making it tougher for her to survive mounting pressure in congress for her impeachment.

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has dug in for a long battle with a deeply fragmented Congress after impeachment proceedings were introduced against her in the lower house.