British Prime Minister Theresa May is to join Gulf Arab leaders gathered for a summit in Bahrain Tuesday for talks on trade after Britain's exit from the European Union. May is the first British premier and the first woman to attend the annual summit of the six oil-rich Gulf Cooperation...

A new outbreak of bird flu hit France's foie gras producers Friday just as a ban on exports outside Europe was about to be lifted in time for the crucial holiday period. The agriculture ministry said the outbreak of the "highly pathogenic" H5N8 strain of the virus was detected Thursday on a...

Britain will not block attempts by the European Union to forge a closer common defense policy as it negotiates its exit from the bloc, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Friday. Defense minister Michael Fallon had previously said he would stop the creation of an EU army for as long...

French president Francois Hollande announced on Thursday he will not stand for re-election next year. "I have decided that I will not be a candidate," Hollande said in televised address to the nation. The French leader said he was putting the country’s needs ahead of his personal...

(Sky News)- Sky News understands the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has privately told at least four EU ambassadors that he supports freedom of movement - despite the Government's hard stance on Brexit. The high-ranking diplomats were speaking under the Chatham House rule, which allows...

EU member states must fulfill their commitments under the EU-Turkey refugee agreement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference with Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in Berlin, Merkel reaffirmed her support for the March 18 deal which aims to...

French investigators have tried and failed - again -to persuade Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to talk to anti-terrorism investigators. Paris prosecutor's office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said Abdeslam was brought before an anti-terrorism judge Tuesday for a new interrogation...

Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested four people suspected of having links to an illegal migration network believed to have been used by ISIS to move militants to Europe, including those involved in last year's Paris attacks. A ministry statement said the four had links with...

 The bodies of two pilots killed when their tourist plane crashed in the French Alps were recovered Saturday after intense searches in the mountains east of Chambery, the city's prosecutor said. The two men, who have not yet been identified, had taken off from Dortmund in Germany on...

(The Guardian)- Britain’s home secretary is being urged by MPs to allow refugees from the Yazidi community, a minority Iraqi group persecuted by Islamic State, to enter the UK under the same rules that allow entrance to vulnerable Syrian refugees. In a letter to Amber Rudd (pdf), a...

(Sky News)- Not just unlikely, nor merely undesirable, but "impossible" says Britain's closest ally about the desire to negotiate a full exit deal from the EU within the two-year time frame. It was an unexpectedly strong intervention from Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, speaking to me on...

(The Daily Star)- Spanish police have announced an international arrest warrant against a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, identified by media Friday as controversial gas magnate Dmytro Firtash. Judicial authorities in Barcelona ordered "three European arrest warrants issued against Ukrainian...

German police arrested a 20-year-old Syrian refugee who sympathized with Islamic State after he tried to cross into Denmark with potential bomb-making materials, a spokesman for the Stuttgart prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The man, whose name was not disclosed, had been in Germany for...

(The Telegraph)- Britain's exit from the EU could be blocked, Tony Blair has said, as he ruled out a return to frontline politics because there is “too much hostility” towards him. The former Labour prime minister said he had been accused of “treason” for suggesting that Britain keep its...

(The Daily Star)- Suspects arrested last weekend in France under anti-terrorism measures had been planning to launch attacks on Dec. 1 at important and landmark sites in and around Paris, according to a source close to the inquiry. Police sources said that among the targets were France's...

 U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis plaguing the Rohingya minority. Burma Campaign U.K. said Tuesday it delivered 3,164 signatures on a petition calling on Myanmar’s...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition partners on Monday accused her of running out of ideas after she announced she would stand for a fourth term in next year's parliamentary election. The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), junior partner to Merkel's conservatives in their ruling...

 French anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille who had been plotting an attack on France for several months, the interior minister said Monday. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said a series of arrests in June and this past Sunday put an end to...

Police have broken up a terror ring plotting an attack in France after arresting seven individuals in Strasbourg and Marseille, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday. The weekend arrests of seven suspects – of French, Moroccan and Afghan origin – "enabled us to prevent a...

(Sky News)- Theresa May is to attempt to woo Britain's bosses with the promise of tax cuts and a new Government approach to business: "Stepping up, not stepping back." In her first speech to a CBI conference, she will promise £2bn of investment in science and research and tax breaks for...