Seven British lawmakers resigned from the opposition Labour Party over its Brexit policies as well as other issues, including its approach to anti-Semitism.
Seven MPs have resigned from the Labour Party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism. They are: Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, ...
LONDON -- Seven pro-Europe lawmakers abruptly quit the opposition Labour Party on Monday over their frustration with its leader Jeremy Corbyn's handling of ...
The UK's official opposition, the Labour Party, "is a moral crusade or it is nothing." Those are the words of Harold Wilson, one of the Labour Party's most ...
UK lawmakers have accused Facebook of violating data privacy and competition laws in a report on social media disinformation that also says CEO Mark ...
In scope, ambition, likely impact and news value - that is, what it has brought to light - the DCMS Select Committee report on fake news and disinformation is a ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook intentionally breached data privacy and competition law and should, along with other big tech companies, be subject to a new ...
A summit of central European leaders in Israel has been cancelled because of an Israel-Poland row over the Holocaust. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said ...
Poland canceled plans to send a delegation to meeting in Jerusalem after the acting Israeli foreign minister said that Poles "collaborated with the Nazis"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's off-hand comment in Warsaw about Poland and the Holocaust set in motion a diplomatic crisis that on Monday scuttled ...
PM Mateusz Morawiecki has cancelled a trip to Israel following comments on the Holocaust by Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr Netanyahu was ...
The United States will have to sever its military assistance to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) battling Islamic State if the fighters partner with ...
Researchers say this number could be much higher, and that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime carried out 98 percent of them, dropping chlorine gas, ...
Only the Syrian state can protect groups in northern Syria and the army will "liberate every inch of Syria" from foreign troops, Syrian President Bashar Assad said ...
The United States is lobbying Gulf states to hold off restoring ties with Syria, including the UAE which has moved closer to Damascus to counter the influence of ...
An American woman and a British teenager who fled to Syria to marry Islamic State group fighters are pleading to be allowed to return home. Hoda Muthana, 24 ...
Hoda Muthana, 24, left Hoover, Alabama in 2014, in order to join ISIS in Syria, where she would later call for US Muslims to 'spill all of the blood' by launching ...
SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia on Monday blamed a “sophisticated state actor” for the recent hacking of Parliament's computer ...
A cyberattack on Australia's parliament was carried out by foreign agents, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, coinciding with a warning from the country's top ...
A cyber attack on Australian lawmakers that breached the networks of major political parties was probably carried out by a foreign government, Prime Minister ...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declined to comment on President Trump's claim that the leader nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize due to his ...
Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's largest national newspapers, cited multiple government sources as saying the U.S. "informally" asked Japan to nominate Trump.
Tokyo (CNN) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has refused to deny that he nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts ...
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan moved to put the Nobel genie back in the bottle on Monday when he told the country's Parliament that he would ...
NEW DELHI — Militants in Kashmir struck again on Monday, killing an Indian Army major and at least three other soldiers just days after orchestrating a ...
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been urged to take “revenge” on Pakistan after a terror attack by militants in the disputed Kashmir region which ...
More than 300 Islamic State militants who are holed up in a tiny area in eastern Syria are refusing to surrender to U.S.-backed Syrian forces and are trying to ...
Hundreds of militants fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are refusing to surrender in the Syrian village of Baghouz despite being surrounded by ...
The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local): 3:15 p.m. Syrian opposition activists and paramedics say two bomb blasts in the northwestern city of Idlib have ...
Vice President Mike Pence left room for applause. But no one clapped. At a security conference in Munich on Saturday, Pence mentioned President Donald ...
A divided America was on display this weekend in Munich where Vice President Mike Pence and Democrats offered competing visions of the trans-Atlantic ...
"The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border," the former vice ...
An election-bound Trump wants the China trade problem out of the way to bask in the spotlight choreographed by Chinese puppeteers during the North Korean ...
Donald Trump is starting to get under Angela Merkel's skin. The German chancellor emerged from a bruising week of diplomacy with her most vigorous defense ...
Vice President Mike Pence (left), who was sent along with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to represent the United States at the Munich Security Conference in ...
Ivanka Trump is said to be working hard behind the scenes of Washington DC to implement her paid family leave initiative - and she certainly didn't shy away ...
The end is near for ISIL's so-called Caliphate. That's according to US president Donald Trump, who says the armed group will be defeated in Syria within days...
President Donald Trump demanded that Europe take back hundreds of ISIS fighters captured in Syria, in the administration's latest move that appeared likely to ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France will for now not act on U.S. President Donald Trump's call for European allies to repatriate hundreds of Islamic State fighters from Syria, ...
US President Donald Trump has demanded that Europe take in hundreds of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) fighters captured in S.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Saudi Arabia's crown prince has pledged $20 billion worth of investments in Pakistan to shore up the country's struggling economy ...
Saudi Arabia has pledged investment deals worth $20bn (£15.5bn) with Pakistan which is seeking to bolster its fragile economy. The deals include funding for ...
Berlin will stop extraditing Germans to Britain immediately after Brexit even if it leaves the European Union with a deal, the Financial Times reported ...
(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Theresa May launched a desperate appeal to Conservative Party lawmakers to unite behind her derided Brexit plan as she ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Monday told small businesses to prepare for more bureaucracy and costs should Britain crash out of the bloc ...
The chaos of a British exit from the European Union without a deal has been often foretold, and in frightening detail — goods stranded for weeks, shortages of ...
Iran's foreign minister on Sunday rejected Vice President Pence's criticism of the Iranian government, decrying the U.S. as the "single biggest source of ...
European officials brushed off U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's call for the bloc to ratchet up pressure on Iran, saying they will continue defending the 2015 ...
One major conference, two very different messages. At a meeting on global security in Germany, US Vice President Mike Pence gave European leaders a ...
The Latest on the Munich Security Conference (all times local):. 2:55 p.m.. Qatar's foreign minister is cautioning that the Islamic State group will continue to be a ...
A teenager who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State has called on people in the UK to have sympathy for her, the day after giving birth to a boy in a refugee ...
LONDON — The 19-year-old woman who left Britain to join the Islamic State and who recently spoke out about wanting to return home has given birth to a boy in ...
How do you solve a problem like Shamima? In February 2015, 15-year-old east London schoolgirl Shamima Begum travelled to Syria with two friends, Amira ...
SHAMIMA Begum fled to Syria from her home in Bethnal Green as a schoolgirl. But four years later, the ISIS bride has given a shock interview after giving birth to ...
Two French pilots who made a mysterious escape from the Dominican Republic in 2015 are going on trial in southern France accused of international cocaine ...
A 19-year-old British woman who joined ISIS, and recently gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp, said she wants to go home, according to the New York Times.
The east London schoolgirl who left the UK to join Islamic State has compared the Manchester Arena bombing to airstrikes by the western allies that killed ...
Begum ran away to marry an ISIS fighter four years ago - but now wants to return to the UK after the terror group's so-called 'caliphate' crumbled into dust and ...
Revolutionary Guards have broken up a group of militants in southeast Iran who were linked to a suicide bombing that killed 27 guards near the border with ...
Iran's parliament speaker says an attack that killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard was "planned and carried out from inside Pakistan," saying ...
Iran has summoned the Pakistani ambassador to protest about a suicide bombing that killed 27 of its elite Revolutionary Guards near the border earlier this ...
Japanese carmaker Honda is set to announce the closure of its Swindon plant in 2022, putting 3,500 jobs at risk, sources say. The Japanese carmaker will shut ...
Japanese carmaker Honda is set to announce the closure of its Swindon car plant putting 3500 jobs at risk, Sky News reported on Monday. Sky News said that ...
Honda is planning to close its factory in Swindon dealing what trade unions called a “shattering body blow” to an automotive sector already struggling with the ...
At least five people were killed and another five were wounded Saturday after four gunmen opened fire inside a club in Cancun, Mexico, authorities said.
Five people have been killed and five more wounded after gunmen burst into a bar in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun and opened fire, Mexican authorities ...
Gunmen burst into a bar in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun and opened fire, killing five people and wounding five more, authorities said Saturday. Quintana ...
The last time I saw Theodore McCarrick was September 25, 2015, when Pope Francis led an interfaith *service* at the 9/11 Museum in Manhattan. I was covering ...
VATICAN CITY, Italy — The Vatican has dismissed former US cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, after a church trial found him guilty of sexually abusing minors.
By Christopher White, The Tablet's National Correspondent. ROME – Pope Francis's historic decision to defrock former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Saturday ...
THEODORE MCCARRICK, a former Catholic prelate who once enjoyed easy access to America's corridors of power, was formally stripped of the priestly rank ...
The US and North Korea are seriously considering exchanging liaison officers, an incremental step towards building formal diplomatic relations, two sources ...
The United States has blocked efforts by a U.N. agency to improve civil aviation in North Korea at a time when Pyongyang is trying to reopen part of its airspace ...
The president is quickly turning his sights toward a second nuclear summit with North Korea that could reset a political narrative of domestic frustration.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday inaugurated a new domestically-built submarine armed with cruise missiles at a time of rising ...
BRUSSELS — President Donald Trump's demand that European countries take back their citizens fighting in Syria is receiving a mixed reaction, as nations ...
Kurdish-led authorities in north Syria said on Monday they would not free foreign Islamic State detainees but countries must repatriate them, after U.S. President ...
France will ignore a request from the Trump administration to repatriate hundreds of Islamic State (ISIS) militants captured fighting alongside Syrian-born fighters ...
Thousands of volunteers in Venezuela have registered to travel to the Colombian border to bring in aid. Food and medicine from the United States have become ...
The U.S. military airlifted 180 tons of aid to a Colombian town on the Venezuelan border Saturday as part of an effort meant to undermine socialist President ...
With President Trump publicly denouncing the “turmoil” in Venezuela last week, the United States is inching further toward a showdown with President Nicolás ...
The second wave of humanitarian aid provided by the U.S. government for Venezuela arrived Saturday in the town of Cucuta along the Colombia-Venezuela ...
Latin American countries are straining to cope with an influx of Venezuelan immigrants, a tide of humanity that is expected to increase in 2019 as the troubled ...
Cucuta, Colombia -- U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio visited a border staging point for U.S. aid to Venezuela on Sunday and warned soldiers loyal to socialist President ...
During a visit to the Colombian border city of Cucuta, Sen. Marco Rubio warned Venezuelan soldiers that they would commit a "crime against humanity" if they ...
CÚCUTA, Colombia — This Colombian border city, already grappling with a mounting migration crisis, is bracing for a tense showdown that is likely to mark a ...
[Editor's note: This is part two of Inés San Martín's interview with Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, one of the Church's leading reformers on the issue of ...
[Editor's note: Crux editor John L. Allen Jr. will be offering daily reflections on Pope Francis's summit on the protection of minors in the Church, beginning today ...
In January, thousands of North Korean students traveled to Mount Paektu, a sacred mountain where the ruling family claims its roots and where leader Kim Jong ...
Nigeria's presidential campaign has been largely free of the religious pressures that marked the 2015 vote when Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim northerner, ...
Foreign election observers have appealed for calm following the last-minute postponement of the Nigerian election by a week. "We call on all Nigerians to ...
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Israel of "looking for war" and warned that its behaviour and that of the United States were increas...
Yemen's government and the rebel Houthi movement have agreed on the first phase of a withdrawal of forces around the key port of Hudaydah, the UN says.
Saudi state media say Yemen's Houthi rebels have killed at least nine Saudi soldiers in a renewed military offensive. The attacks happened in the southern Sa...
Yemen's government and Houthi rebels have agreed on the first phase of a withdrawal from the key city of Hodeidah, in a deal the UN described as important ...
Saudi Arabia dismissed a U.K. newspaper report that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is stalking Manchester United and wants to tempt the Glazer family ...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is due to arrive in Pakistan on Sunday, but the visit risks being overshadowed by escalating tensions ...
Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman flew to Pakistan at the start of a three nation diplomatic tour designed to repair the kingdom's reputation and ...
The U.S. Commerce Department sent a report on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump that could unleash steep tariffs on imported cars and auto parts, ...
PARIS—A spate of anti-Semitic incidents has accompanied France's yellow-vest protests in recent weeks, raising fears that the movement is stirring up hatred in ...
An upsurge in anti-Semitism in France reached a climax over the weekend with a torrent of hate speech directed at a distinguished philosopher during a march ...
PARIS – A spate of anti-Semitic incidents has accompanied France's yellow-vest protests in recent weeks, raising fears that the movement is stirring up hatred in ...
The bodies of 24 illegal gold miners have been recovered from a flooded mine in Zimbabwe, and rescuers have pulled out eight survivors, who had been ...
Terrorist group Hamas have claimed Israel are sending 'bugged shoes' across the border for sale to spy on people in Gaza. The 'secret recording chips' were ...
Israel has implemented a new law that allows it to withhold millions of dollars in tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority. The move penalises the authori...
Special counsel Robert Mueller may be handing down the most severe punishment yet in the Trump-Russia affair. Prosecutors on Friday asked a federal judge ...
Robert Mueller's team told a federal judge Friday that federal guidelines call for Paul Manafort to get as long as 24-and-a-half years in prison for his conviction ...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Monday that it plans to update its laws so it can tax revenue earned by multinational digital firms such as Google ...
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