US lawmakers took the grave step Friday of approving two charges against Donald Trump, setting up a full House of Representatives vote to impeach the president for abusing his powers and obstructing Congress. Democrats and Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee voted along strict...

A former Turkish prime minister who has launched a splinter party to rival President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Friday a return to a parliamentary democracy and to expand rights and freedoms. Ahmet Davutoglu made the commitment a day after he formally established the breakaway "The...

Expectations for a U.S.-Chinese trade truce rose Friday, though Beijing accused Washington of unfairly attacking its economy and said a settlement to their costly, 17-month-old conflict must be “mutually beneficial.” A senior Trump administration official said an announcement regarding...

The House Judiciary Committee is expected to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Friday after abruptly shutting down a 14-hour session late Thursday following a marathon slog through Republican amendments aimed at killing the charges. Approval of the two...

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month. With 649...

Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky has ridiculed a Russian TV channel for abruptly cancelling his popular comedy series after one evening, saying the show had its impact on "someone with a nuclear weapon." Zelensky's "Servant of the People" premiered in Russia on Wednesday evening after a...

Israel Friday hailed the election defeat of Britain's Labour Party as a "milestone in the fight against hatred" after its leadership was accused of inaction against anti-Semitism in its ranks. "I congratulate British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the UK Conservative Party on a decisive...

Jeremy Corbyn on Friday said he would not lead Britain's main opposition Labour party at the next general election, after predictions of a crushing defeat at nationwide polls. "I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign," the veteran socialist, 70, said after winning...

The head of Libya’s eastern-based parliament on Thursday said he disagreed with an accord between Libya and Turkey establishing maritime boundaries which has infuriated Athens. Greece expelled the Libyan ambassador last week over the Nov. 27 accord establishing a sea corridor between Libya...

Israel’s president on Thursday urged Israelis not to lose faith in their democratic system after persistent political deadlock threw the country into a third election in less than a year. The March 2 ballot, agreed by parliament when it voted overnight to dissolve, will be held in the...

Moscow considers U.S. pressure on Turkey over its buying Russian S-400 defense systems “unacceptable,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Zakharova said this attempt to pressure Turkey is out of bounds in the...

China and the U.S. are zeroing in on an agreement that would mark a major milestone in their nearly two-year trade war, President Donald Trump claimed Thursday. "Getting VERY close to a BIG DEAL with China. They want it, and so do we!" Trump said on Twitter. The trade dispute between...

Seven Iraqi fighters were killed north of Baghdad Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a base of an armed group led by Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, the army said. The attack, which also wounded three fighters, was carried out by "a suicide terrorist," it said, using its standard term for...

Polls closed Thursday as Algeria's presidential election, which was opposed by a large protest movement, came to an end. Preliminary results are expected Friday, with official results later this month and a possible second-round run-off in early January.  

Britain voted Thursday in a deeply divisive election that posed a historic choice between an imminent split from the European Union or another referendum that could scrap the entire Brexit process. A decisive victory for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the third poll in less than five years...

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said on Thursday the Clasico against Real Madrid next week will not be postponed again, amid renewed fears of unrest around the fixture. Protestors from the Catalan separatist movement, Democratic Tsunami, have called for a "massive" protest outside...

Ferrari chief executive officer Louis Camilleri said Thursday that it was premature to talk about a possible move of six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton to the Italian team. Camilleri confirmed that Mercedes driver Hamilton has had "conversations" with Ferrari chairman John Elkann, but...

Demonstrators in Iraq lynched a teenager accused of attacking a protest encampment in Baghdad on Thursday, police and witnesses said, in an attack that threatened to tarnish the protest movement's broadly non-violent image. Police said a dispute between a 17-year-old male and protesters...

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Thursday asked international funding bodies for support in drawing up an emergency rescue plan for his protest-wracked country. Donors including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday rebuffed a plea for financial aid pending the...

Russia Thursday expelled two German diplomats in what it called a standard diplomatic response to a similar move by Germany last week and said it hoped a dispute over the killing of a Georgian citizen in Berlin would not damage ties further. Berlin announced the expulsion of two German...