The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency deepened on Saturday with his interior minister due to face a grilling in parliament over his response to a top security aide of Macron…
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Spain’s conservative Popular Party elected communications secretary Pablo Casado as leader at a party congress on Saturday. He replaces Mariano Rajoy who was ousted as prime minister in June,…
InternationalNew documents show that one month before the 2016 US elections, the FBI sought permission to surveil Carter Page, the one-time foreign policy adviser to the campaign of Donald Trump, because…
InternationalThe United Kingdom will refuse to pay a divorce bill if the European Union does not agree to a trade deal, the new Brexit secretary of state said.
“Article 50 requires, as we negotiate…
InternationalLos Angeles police officers ended a tense standoff Saturday evening when they captured an armed suspect who barricaded himself inside a Trader Joe’s, killed someone inside the store and held…
InternationalChina is waging a “quiet kind of cold war” against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, top CIA expert on Asia Michael Collins…
InternationalThe Polish parliament adopted rules on Friday to expedite the naming of a new Supreme Court chief under a judicial overhaul by the ruling party that critics say undercuts democracy.
InternationalTurkey and the Netherlands have agreed to restore relations strained after a diplomatic row last year. In a joint statement on Friday, the two countries stated their “readiness for normalization…
InternationalThe margin of support for the main candidates in Zimbabwe’s presidential election narrowed as the country prepares to go to the polls on July 30.
InternationalUS Secretary of State Michael Pompeo sought to shore up support among UN Security Council members for a North Korean sanctions regime that is showing signs of weakening, as hopes for a quick…
InternationalHamas has said a deal to restore calm in the besieged Gaza Strip has been reached, ending the Israeli onslaught on Hamas positions and other violence that resulted in the deaths of four…
InternationalA South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a…
InternationalShares of Microsoft Corp were set to open at a record high on Friday, after the company reported another blockbuster quarter, backed by growth in its legacy software business and Azure cloud…
InternationalA duck boat packed with tourists capsized in high winds on a southwest Missouri lake, killing at least 13 people.
Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jason Pace said 14 people survived,…
InternationalA South Korean salvage team has reportedly discovered the wreck of a Russian warship that is believed to still contain 200 tons of gold bullion and coins worth $130 billion.
InternationalPoland’s ruling party will start the fast-track approval of a draft law meant to pre-empt potential punishment from the European Union and complete the most dramatic judicial revamp in the bloc’…
InternationalAs Turkey’s controversial two-year-long state of emergency comes to an end, the government is set to introduce new anti-terrorism laws it says are needed to deal with continued security threats…
InternationalThousands of the world’s pre-eminent technology experts called for a global ban on the development of lethal autonomous weapons, warning they could become instruments of violence and oppression…
InternationalColombia’s right-wing president-elect Ivan Duque announced a controversial appointment as defense minister on Tuesday, choosing a vocal critic of the 2016 peace agreement with FARC rebels.
…InternationalThe European Union plans to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal on the basis of the British government’s white paper on Brexit and will not focus on amendments passed by parliament, Ireland’s foreign…
InternationalBlistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime US rival, President Donald Trump backed away from his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he simply…
InternationalSouth Africans along with former US president Barack Obama were marking the centennial of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela’s birth on Wednesday with acts of charity in a country still…
International"Bizarre", "shameful", "disgraceful", that is the swift and sweeping condemnation directed at US President Donald Trump on Monday after he sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the…
InternationalBritish Prime Minister Theresa May won a series of votes in parliament on Monday, keeping her overarching strategy to leave the European Union just about on track after bowing to pressure from…
InternationalThe US-led coalition’s flurry of responses rejecting the findings of a recent Amnesty International report on the devastation wrought by their aerial bombardment of Raqqa last year demonstrates…
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