(Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy took the first step on Wednesday toward suspending Catalonia’s political autonomy and ruling the region directly to thwart a push for independence. He demanded that the regional government clarify whether it now considered itself...

ROME (Reuters) - The brother of the man who killed two women with a knife outside Marseille train station last week was probably a foreign fighter in Syria and Iraq, Italian investigators said on Monday. Italian police arrested 25-year-old Tunisian Anis Hannachi in Northern Italy on...

(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia’s capital Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to any declaration of independence from Spain, showing how divided the region is on the issue. The protesters rallied in central Barcelona, waving Spanish...

Police said they have arrested a man near London's Natural History Museum following reports of a collision Saturday, in which a number of pedestrians are believed to have been hurt. A spokesman for the museum said there had been a vehicle collision with pedestrians outside its entrance...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel lobbied party members Saturday to stand behind efforts to build a new coalition with the Free Democratic Party and Greens, saying it's the best suited to govern the country. Speaking in Dresden to her party's youth wing, Merkel said she will hold talks...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Thousands of Catalans gathered at designated polling stations on Sunday morning as they sought to defy Spanish authorities by voting in a banned independence referendum that has raised fears of unrest in the wealthy northeastern region. The referendum, declared...

(Reuters) - Same-sex couples will marry in Germany for the first time on Sunday, when some civil registry offices will open specially to celebrate the coming into force of a marriage law that parliament passed in June. Around a dozen same-sex couples are expected to marry in Berlin on...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany’s parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls showed. After shock election results last year, from...

Germans began voting in a national election on Sunday that is likely to see Chancellor Angela Merkel win a historic fourth term and a far-right party enter parliament for the first time in more than half a century. Merkel’s conservative bloc is on track to remain the largest group in...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), set to enter parliament for the first time at weekend elections, said on Friday it would revive debate there after four years of “grand coalition” rule by the two major parties. Support for the AfD, which has won voters with its...

British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover on Saturday in a “significant” development in the hunt for the people behind a London commuter train bombing that injured 30 people a day earlier. Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security...

Two labor unions ended a two-decade long partnership agreement with Harley-Davidson Inc (HOG.N) on Tuesday, citing issues with senior management. Union leaders belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and the United Steelworkers (USW) said...

 Britain said on Tuesday it was “vitally important” that a trade dispute between U.S. plane maker Boeing Co and its Canadian rival Bombardier, a major employer in Northern Ireland, was settled. In April, Boeing asked the U.S. Commerce Department to investigate alleged subsidies and...

The British government should stop dreaming about having its own way in Brexit negotiations and start to get more realistic about the likely outcome of divorce talks with the European Union, said Jim O‘Neill, a former Goldman Sachs economist. Prime Minister Theresa May, who quietly...

Swedish journalist Kim Wall died when she was accidentally hit by a heavy hatch cover on board a home-made submarine, the Danish owner of the vessel testified in court on Tuesday. Peter Madsen, who denies killing Wall, said he was holding the hatch for her but it slipped and hit her...

 A Malta-based humanitarian group that has been rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean for three years said on Monday it was suspending operations after months of rising tensions with Italian and Libyan authorities. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) was instead sending its...

Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) slightly narrowed the gap with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in a poll published on Sunday, only hours before the center-right leader will face her challenger Martin Schulz in a television debate. Pollster Emnid said in a survey...

The Canadian embassy in Berlin was evacuated due to a bomb threat, local newspaper B.Z. reported on Wednesday, adding that the police had been on site and were able to give the all-clear. Neither the police nor the embassy were immediately available to comment. B.Z. said a radio...

 French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his Turkish counterpart to free a French journalist who has been jailed in Turkey since July on suspicion of terrorism. The French president's office said Sunday that Macron spoke by telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and...

Pope Francis decried the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and prayed they receive "full rights." The pontiff said Sunday there was "sad news about the persecution of the religious minority of our Rohingya brothers." Thousands of Rohingya are trying to flee into Bangladesh after...