Boris Johnson is set for a comfortable majority, as Jeremy Corbyn says he will not lead Labour into the next election after a "very disappointing" night, and Jo ...
Exit polls projected that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party won a big majority of seats in Parliament in national elections Thursday.
After traditional Labour strongholds flipped to the Conservatives, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the results give his government “a powerful new ...
At 7am, the UK pound was up 2.1 per cent against the dollar to 1.345 and up 1.29 per cent against the euro, nudging close to 12-month and 31-month highs.
The biggest question ahead of Thursday's election is whether conflicted Britons will stick to the parties they were born with or make the big leap to vote for ...
A specialist team have recovered six bodies from New Zealand's White Island volcano, braving hazardous conditions in a risky operation four days after it ...
Last week's tragic accident on White Island off New Zealand made me think how much of my own sight-seeing seems to have involved geothermal event-tourism ...
A military operation to retrieve eight bodies from the White Island volcano in New Zealand has been a partial success, with six victims of Monday's earthquake ...
The Senate resolution recognizes the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. Turkey condemned the move, saying it ...
The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide in Turkey more than 100 years ago, over earlier objections from ...
WASHINGTON – In a stinging rebuke to Turkey, the Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide – marking a shift ...
The US Congress on Thursday formally recognized the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide. The Senate's passage of the repeatedly ...
A business-backed trade group established to back President Trump's United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has backed off from taking a position ...
As anti-government demonstrations engulfed Hong Kong in August, Reuters broke a sensitive story: Beijing had rejected a secret proposal by city leader Carrie ...
TAIWAN has risked the wrath of China by pledging to help displaced Hong Kong democracy campaigners, with Foreign Minister Joseph Wu fearing his people ...
Under pressure from the Chinese government, the financial information provider that distributes Reuters news to investors has blocked over 200 stories on the ...
What began in early 2019 as peaceful marches against a bill to allow extraditions to mainland China has exploded into a direct challenge to Beijing's grip on ...
James Carroll writes about the recently released Afghanistan Papers—a series of interviews about the war in Afghanistan—and the long-term effects of George ...
The U.S. special representative for Afghanistan on Thursday announced a "pause," apparently in reference to talks with the Taliban, after an attack near Bagram ...
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have been careful to stay out of Thursday's U.K. elections, but some are nonetheless concerned about ...
After a campaign beset by division and controversy, the general election is finally upon us. Voters across the UK will be heading to the ballot box on Thursday in ...
Washington (CNN) The Justice Department's internal watchdog sharpened his criticism of the FBI on Wednesday, telling lawmakers he was alarmed that "so ...
The Justice Department's inspector general testified on Capitol Hill on Wednesday about his report, which concluded that the FBI's investigation had problems ...
Legal experts slammed Attorney General Bill Barr Tuesday for his ongoing efforts to undermine the inspector general report that debunked several GOP ...
The Justice Department inspector general's report debunked President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the FBI's Russia probe was launched out of ...
New Zealand medical staff were working around the clock Thursday treating severely burned survivors of a volcanic eruption. The enormity of the task facing ...
Six bodies have been airlifted off the White Island volcano in New Zealand out of eight believed to have been left there after Monday's volcanic eruption.
A family with ties to the Chicago area has been confirmed to be among the victims of Monday's devastating volcanic eruption in New Zealand, according to ...
Hayden Marshall-Inman was one of at least 16 killed when the White Island volcano suddenly erupted, and his body has been stranded there as it is too ...
President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are both looking ahead to the Senate impeachment trial, but there is a growing divide ...
The articles for impeachment unveiled by House Democrats against President Donald Trump suggest this is a party putting haste before justice, says law ...
On paper, the speaker of the House and chairmen of the relevant committees announcing they will impeach the president should feel like a historic moment and ...
U.S. stocks hit record highs on Thursday after President Donald Trump tweeted that Washington was "very close" to a trade deal with Beijing and on a report that ...
At least two people have died in clashes with Indian police in the north-eastern state of Assam, officials said. Police said the two had been caught in crossfire in ...
Demonstrators defied troops and a curfew after the bill, which would make it easier for some non-Muslim migrants to become citizens, was approved in ...
Amir Kashfi felt a sigh of relief when he heard that President Trump had signed an executive order to combat anti-Semitism and the burgeoning anti-Israel ...
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday instructing federal agencies to use Title VI — the law that bars federally funded programs from ...
Some federal law enforcement officials are warning of a chilling effect inside the FBI amid attacks by President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr ...
After Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz declared that his newly released report on the FBI's initial Trump-Russia investigation did not ...
The great debate about whether the FBI spied on the Trump campaign continues. The question is why there is still any argument. The newly released report from ...
Editorial: Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi's defence of her country must not overshadow the issue at the heart of the case at the international court of justice: the ...
All 38 passengers on board the Chilean Air Force plane that went missing Monday on its way to Antarctica are presumed dead, according to Chilean Defense ...
Authorities in Chile searching for a military transport plane that vanished earlier this week while en route to Antarctica made a grim announcement Thursday, ...
Wreckage and human remains from a Chilean military aircraft that disappeared on a flight to Antarctica with 38 people aboard have been discovered in the ...
Rescue workers searching for survivors after a Chilean air force plane went missing with 38 people on board have found human remains, a regional governor ...
People born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa should be recognized as U.S. citizens, a federal judge in Utah ruled Thursday, in a hard-fought legal battle ...
Despite Donald Trump's periodic threats to terminate birthright citizenship, it remains the law of the land—except for one small territory. The federal government ...
The Pentagon says it's conducted a flight test Thursday of a missile that had been banned under a treaty that the United States and Russia abandoned last ...
Washington (CNN) The US military tested Thursday a conventional missile that was previously banned by the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty that the ...
The U.S. military is planning to test a land-based intermediate-range missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Thursday, a U.S. defense official tells ...
Israel will hold its third general election in less than a year after a deadline was missed for any lawmaker to form a majority coalition. MPs are now expected to ...
Israel is heading to an unprecedented third election in less than a year after parliament missed Wednesday night's deadline to nominate a lawmaker to form the ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was getting hammered on Thursday for backing the United Kingdom's far-left Labour Party headed by Jeremy Corbyn, ...
Coverage of elections, including this one, inevitably depicts them as a popularity contest between the party leaders – focused on fluctuations in opinion polls and ...
THE moment of destiny has arrived. Not since the end of the Second World War has there been a more important General Election than this one. At stake is the ...
One of the workers caught up in a blaze on Russia's only aircraft carrier has spoken of how he thought he would die during his escape. A thick plume of smoke ...
Moscow (CNN) At least one person was killed after Russia's only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, caught fire on Thursday morning during repair work in ...
A major fire broke out aboard Russia's only aircraft carrier while undergoing repairs at a dock in the northern port city of Murmansk early Thursday morning.
A fire on Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, has been brought under control, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday, citing the Northern ...
A fire broke out aboard Russia's only aircraft carrier, injuring almost a dozen people and threatening to put the vessel out of commission, the latest in a string of ...
Canada's Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is stepping down after facing criticism for failing to oust Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in October's election ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The head of Canada's main opposition Conservatives quit on Thursday after losing an October election to Liberal Prime Minister Justin ...
The leader of Canada's Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer, said Thursday that he would step down following an election in October in which his Liberal rival ...
Toronto. Andrew Scheer, leader of Canada's Conservative Party, should have been celebrating. His party gained 26 seats in the Oct. 21 federal election, won a ...
The dissidents have won, and the embattled leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Andrew Scheer, is stepping down. Scheer's departure brings a ...
Conservatives have taken the highly symbolic seat of Workington, home of the voter identified as their key target in the battle to break into the Labour ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's election on Thursday is widely referred to as the most important in a generation given the impact it will have on the country leaving ...
On Friday morning, the UK will wake up to the final general election results trickling in. The final opinion polls, collected before polling day, gave Boris Johnson's ...
Britons will go to the polls on Thursday to elect a new parliament and government. Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the election in hopes of ...
A rocket attack Thursday at Baghdad's airport appears to be the latest in a string of attacks over the past five weeks that U.S. officials say have escalated both in ...
WARNING GRAPHIC *CONTENT*: The 16-year-old was beaten to death, dragged through the streets and strung up by his feet by a furious mob in a central ...
Crowds in Algeria sacked voting stations on Thursday and the police used force to break up demonstrations, as the authorities went ahead with a presidential ...
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Algerian capital, Algiers, to protest against Thursday's presidential election. They briefly overran a polling ...
It's the one election which really counts. It's an election which could have a devastating effect on the European Union. It's an election about poverty, ...
The 2019 list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women celebrates women who are using their power to create change and, often, lift other women up with them.
Lawyers seeking to halt what they say is an ongoing genocide in Myanmar have slammed leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's defense of ...
The head of Libya's eastern-based parliament on Thursday said he disagreed with an accord between Libya and Turkey establishing maritime boundaries ...
Since the 2011 NATO-backed revolt in Libya that ended 42 years of rule by strongman Muammar Qaddafi, the oil-rich North African country has been in ...
Maybe this can help mend U.S.-Canadian relations. A classic battle between air and sea was decided by some land-based intruders when a group of Canadian ...
A group of fishermen in Canada rescued a bald eagle from the grip of a large octopus that had dragged the bird under water and was trying to drown it, a report ...
By Alisha Ebrahimiji | CNN. A team of salmon farmers are feeling pretty proud after they were able to rescue a bald eagle from an octopus off the northwest tip of ...
More than $20 million of the Pentagon aid at the center of the impeachment fight still hasn't reached Ukraine. The continued delay undermines a key argument ...
Trump admin heavily redacted a document released Thursday evening that would have been the first communications revealed between government agencies ...
Islamic State (ISIS)-linked militants claimed responsibility for an attack on a military installation in western Niger near the border of Mali on Wednesday, which ...
Islamist militants attacked an army camp in Western Niger on Tuesday, killing 71 soldiers, according to an army spokesman. It was the deadliest assault on the ...
Hundreds of jihadists on motorbikes and pickup trucks killed more than 70 soldiers in an attack on a military base in western Niger, the deadliest single Islamist ...
Niamey, Niger — Hundreds of jihadists attacked a Niger military camp near the border with Mali, killing 71 soldiers, the defense ministry said Wednesday.
Iran's government has acknowledged that it faced a “very big” cyberattack, following a report in The New York Times this week that information from 15 million ...
The meeting between Sergei Lavrov and Donald Trump on Tuesday was an "important moment," but does not signal a thaw in relations between Russia and the ...
A Russia-U.S. Business Advisory Group will allow corporate execs and investors on both sides to figure out how they should play ball given the current climate.
With Mariana Alfaro. THE BIG IDEA: President Trump met behind closed doors in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ...
Russia says it is expelling two German diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Berlin over suspicions that Moscow ordered the killing of an ethnic Chechen ...
Just more than a week after Germany announced the expulsion of two Russian diplomats, citing evidence of a state-sponsored contract killing in Berlin, the ...
Russia said it expelled two German embassy staffers in a tit-for-tat response to Berlin's decision to kick out a pair of Russian diplomats over a dispute following ...
Russia said Thursday it would expel two German diplomats, deepening a tit-for-tat dispute over a brazen daytime murder in a central Berlin park this summer.
An article published yesterday by the Wall Street Journal, by Francis X. Rocca, had a provocative, even shocking headline: “Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor ...
ROME - Pope Francis appeared to flatly reject proposals in some theological circles to add “co-redemptrix” to the list of titles of the Virgin Mary, saying the mother ...
As little as 10% of the millions raised each year by the Catholic Church to help the poor and suffering reaches the needy, with the vast majority of the donations ...
