Theresa May pledges to put Tories ‘at the service of working people’
Theresa May will promise to institute workers’ representation on boards and introduce binding votes on executive pay if she becomes prime minister, in a speech to be delivered at the launch of her...
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5 political lessons from Down Under
SYDNEY — Capping off a turbulent decade in Australian federal politics and the longest election in 50 years, the center-right Liberal-National Coalition has clinched power. Though vote-counting...
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At least 84 dead after truck hits crowd in Nice
PARIS — At least 84 people were killed Thursday in the southern French city of Nice when a truck plowed through a crowd gathered for Bastille Day celebrations, in an attack that President François...
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Hollande: Many of the Nice attack dead are children
French President François Hollande said France is hurting, but “stronger than the fanatics who wish to hurt us,” after at least 80 people were killed in a terror attack in Nice, many of them children....
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘Turkish armed forces must be cleansed’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan flew to Istanbul in the midst of an attempted military coup and issued a defiant statement early Saturday, promising the armed forces would be “cleansed,” saying...
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German police shoot Afghan teenager after ax rampage on train
Four people were seriously injured after a 17-year-old Afghan refugee armed with an ax and a knife went on the rampage on a train, German media reported late Monday. The attacker was shot dead as he...
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ISIL claims German ax attack: report
The 17-year-old Afghan refugee who seriously injured four tourists after going on a rampage Monday in Germany armed with an ax and knife on a train was an ISIL “fighter,” according to an agency linked...
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Turkish government requesting extradition of alleged coup-plotter from the US
The Turkish government is requesting the extradition of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen over his alleged links to Friday’s attempted coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Tuesday. “We have sent...
View ArticleBelarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet killed in Kiev
Pavel Sheremet, a well-known Belarusian journalist who had spent the past five years in Ukraine, was killed when the car he was driving exploded in central Kiev Wednesday morning. An official with...
View ArticleUN raises doubts about UK’s Security Council veto: report
Britain’s decision to withdraw police officers from a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan after violent clashes without consulting the U.N. have raised questions about the country’s Security Council...
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Turkey declares 3-month state of emergency
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared Wednesday that the government would be implementing a three-month state of emergency following Friday’s failed army coup. The state of emergency grants...
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Donald Trump: I won’t automatically back NATO allies
Donald Trump, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate, would not necessarily defend NATO allies if they were attacked or pressure authoritarian allies to protect civil liberties, he said in an...
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Nigel Farage: Donald Trump ‘makes even me wince a little bit’
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, said Wednesday that Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric “makes even me wince a little bit,” the Times reports. “To say that you would ban...
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France to launch inquiry into Nice terror attack: report
The French government will launch an inquiry into security arrangements in Nice during the Bastille Day celebration when a man slammed a truck at a celebrating crowd, Interior Minister Bernard...
View ArticleRussian track ban upheld for Rio Olympics
The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday upheld a decision to ban Russian track and field athletes from the 2016 Olympic Games over allegations of a state-sanctioned doping regime. The...
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Bomb blast injures 12 in Ansbach, Germany
A 27-year-old Syrian migrant who had been denied asylum set off a bomb at a bar in the Bavarian city of Ansbach that killed him and injured twelve others, according to German authorities. “An explosion...
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French interior minister fights claims of Nice attack cover-up
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has threatened to file a defamation lawsuit over a police officer’s accusations that she was pressured to change a report into security at the Nice fireworks...
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UKIP leadership favorite misses ballot deadline: report
Member of European Parliament Steven Woolfe, considered the frontrunner to take over from Nigel Farage as leader of the U.K. Independence Party, may be disqualified from running altogether after...
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Terror link probed as one dead, five injured in London stabbing
A 19-year-old man is in police custody after a woman was killed and five people injured in a knife attack in Russell Square in the center of London late Wednesday. According to police, mental health is...
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Anti-Semitism spikes in UK: report
Reports of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain rose 11 percent in the first half of 2016, to 557 from 500 compared to the same time last year, according to a report published Thursday. That represented...
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