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EU lawmakers say Brexit won't pass without backstop

Senior European lawmakers warned Thursday they will not ratify a Brexit withdrawal deal if it is stripped of guarantees on the Irish border issue. Prime Minister Theresa May last year signed an agreement with her EU colleagues to allow Britain's orderly departure from the European Union on...

Bomb attack hits Syrian capital: state media

A bomb attack hit a northeastern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Thursday, state media said, in the third such explosion in a regime-held area in less than a week. State news agency SANA reported "a terrorist bombing in the Adawi area with an explosive device planted in a car, causing...

Ties between US, Russia and China 'dysfunctional': UN

The world is facing worrying "fragmentation", UN chief Antonio Guterres said Thursday, warning that the relationship between the United States, Russia and China was worryingly out of kilter. "The relationship between the three most important powers, Russia, the United States and China, has...

Palestine condemns Venezuela ‘coup attempt’

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned what has been described as a “coup attempt” against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. In a statement, the ministry voiced its concern over recent events in the troubled South American country, going on to decry what it described...