PARIS (AP): Foreign and interior ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) countries are gathering in France this week to try to find ambitious solutions to world security challenges. Putting a dampener on that are two glaring American absences:...
LONDON (AP): The British government and senior opposition figures met Thursday to seek a new plan on how the country leaves the European Union (EU), as Prime Minister Theresa May tried to limit divisions within her Conservative Party inflamed by...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The pilots of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet followed all of Boeing’s recommended procedures when the plane started to nose dive but still couldn’t save it, according to findings from a preliminary...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Brexit drama went into overtime Wednesday as Prime Minister Theresa May and the country’s main opposition sought a compromise deal to prevent an abrupt British departure from the European Union at the end...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Maduro loyalists stripped Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó of immunity Tuesday, paving the way for the opposition leader’s prosecution and potential arrest for supposedly violating the constitution when he...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are investigating whether electronic cigarettes may trigger seizures in some people who use the nicotine-vaping devices. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has reviewed 35 reports of...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis said on Tuesday that women have “legitimate claims” to seek more justice and equality in the Catholic Church, but stopped short of endorsing more sweeping calls from his own bishops to recognise the “urgency of an...
LONDON (AP) — With Britain racing toward a chaotic exit from the European Union within days, Prime Minister Theresa May veered away from the cliff-edge Tuesday, saying she would seek a further delay to Brexit as U.K. politicians sought a...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Ford’s European boss says that if the United Kingdom can’t work out a deal on how to leave the European Union while guaranteeing “frictionless trade” then the company “will have to consider...
LONDON (AP): Britain is running out of time and options for Brexit. United Kingdom (UK) lawmakers have thrice rejected the divorce deal struck between Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and the European Union (EU). They’ve also failed to find...
PAMPLONA (AP): Marking eight decades since the end of the Spanish Civil War, the remains of 46 unidentified victims of the conflict have been reburied in the northern city of Pamplona. More than 500,000 people died in the 1936-1939 war between...
LONDON (AP): Britain’s only female giant panda has been artificially inseminated in a bid to produce a cub. Officials at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland said yesterday that it was “far too early” to know if the procedure was a success. The zoo said Tian...
ISTANBUL (AP): Turkey’s opposition looked poised to win control of the country’s two biggest cities yesterday as it dealt President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s conservative party one of its most serious electoral setbacks in years. The opposition won...
MILAN (AP) — The World Wildlife Foundation is sounding the alarm over plastics in the Mediterranean Sea after a 26-foot sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 48.5 pounds of plastic in its belly. The environmental organization...
BEIRA, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambican and international health workers raced on Monday to contain the outbreak of cholera in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where cases of the disease has jumped to more than 1,000. There...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump’s administration were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds,...
WASHINGTON (AP): Former United States (US) vice-president Joe Biden said yesterday that he doesn’t believe he ever acted inappropriately towards women but will “listen respectfully” to suggestions that he did. Biden, who is deciding whether to join...
LONDON (AP): Britain’s justice secretary has signalled that the government might take a more conciliatory approach to Brexit as Parliament prepares for another round of votes on alternatives to Prime Minister Theresa May’s withdrawal deal with the...
BEIRA (AP): As Mozambique battles to control a fast-spreading cholera outbreak in the cyclone-hit central city of Beira, international assistance is arriving. The number of cholera cases jumped to 271 over the weekend, although no deaths from the ...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis defended his decision to reject French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin's resignation after he was convicted of covering up for a predator priest, saying today the appeals process must run its course...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After losing in Congress, President Donald Trump is counting on the courts to kill off "Obamacare." But some cases are going against him, and time is not on his side as he tries to score a big win for his re-...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Millions of Turks voted in municipal elections today that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan depicted as a fight for Turkey's survival, and which are a crucial test of the strongman's own support amid a sharp economic...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday that it is poised to deliver aid to Venezuela, warning that it will not accept any interference from President Nicolás Maduro or opposition...
BEIRA, Mozambique (AP): Cholera cases among cyclone survivors in Mozambique have jumped to 271, authorities said, a figure that nearly doubled from the previous day. The Portuguese news agency Lusa cited national health director Ussein Isse, who...
LONDON (AP): The United Kingdom (UK) may be forced to create a national unity government to end the impasse over Britain leaving the European Union, as Prime Minister Theresa May clings to the Brexit divorce agreement that Parliament has rejected...
