U.S. President Donald Trump offered condolences Saturday to the U.K. for a deadly knife attack in London. Trump spoke to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson via telephone, said White House spokesman Judd Deere in a statement. "The two leaders look forward to meeting with one another at...

Thousands of activists sought Saturday to occupy several opencast coal mines in eastern Germany, to put pressure on the government to phase out the fossil fuel -- a divisive issue in the country's rust belt. With painted faces and dressed in white, hundreds of campaigners sought to force...

Manifestos are important in any election, but especially so in the U.K. During Britain’s last election in 2017, the disastrous launch of the ruling Conservative Party’s manifesto cost them the parliamentary majority that they had hoped to expand. Conversely, the opposition Labour Party’s...

The 28-year-old British man who killed two people in a stabbing spree on London Bridge before police shot him dead had previously been convicted of terrorism offenses and was released from prison last year. Sporting a fake suicide vest and wielding knives, Usman Khan went on the rampage...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says police are not looking for anyone else in the stabbings that took place near London Bridge. The mayor commended the “breathtaking heroism” of the members of public who intervened in the incident, running toward the suspect. The man was later shot dead by...

London’s Metropolitan Police say that though the circumstances of an incident on London Bridge remain unclear, authorities are treating it as if it is terror-related. The police acknowledged one man had been shot in the incident that began at 1:58 p.m. on Friday. The police say that “at...

Britain's "Brexit election" may be hardening opinion about Northern Ireland's status, widening a gulf that characterised the province's bloody and still unsettled sectarian past. Political parties across the country are campaigning before polling on December 12, with Prime Minister Boris...

Britain's premier on Wednesday apologized for Islamophobia in his Conservative Party, saying there would be an internal inquiry into the issue before Christmas, according to local reports.  Visiting Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall, Boris Johnson expressed to reporters his apology...

 Britain’s opposition Labour Party has squeezed the governing Conservatives’ opinion poll lead to 11 points from 18 over the last week, a survey by Kantar showed on Tuesday, ahead of a Dec. 12 election. Support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives fell 2 points to 43%,...

Thirteen French troops who were on operation against jihadists in Mali were killed in a helicopter accident on Nov. 25, the French president’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.

 Russia plans to sign a new contract with Turkey to supply its S-400 surface-to-air missile systems in the first half of 2020, the head of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, said, according to RIA Novosti news agency. “We hope that in the first half of 2020...

France on Monday announced new measures to combat violence against women by their partners or ex-partners, seeking to toughen up the law as concern grows over the number of femicide murders in the country. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe made the announcements on the UN-backed International...

A woman believed to have belonged to Daesh and her three children has arrived back in her home country Germany, police told AFP Sunday. The woman is the first adult female Daesh member to have been returned through official channels to Germany from Syria. Named only as Laura H., the...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on track to secure a decisive majority of almost 50 lawmakers ahead of Britain’s Dec. 12 national election, according to an analysis of thousands of interviews from opinion polls. Johnson’s Conservative Party looks likely to score around 349 seats in the...

A French police officer was to appear in court Thursday on charges he hurled a paving stone at protesters during a "yellow vest" rally, the first member of the security forces to face trial after a wave of claims of police violence during the weekly protests. The court hearing comes just...

The United States stepped up its push Monday for European countries to repatriate and put on trial their citizens who fought for Daesh (ISIS), launching talks with officials in Brussels. Days after the U.S. and European allies clashed over the fate of thousands of militants jailed in Syria,...

Reeling from devastating floods this week, Venice suffered another exceptional high tide on Sunday, with the water peaking at 150 cm (4.9 feet), marking the worst week for the city since official tide statistics were produced in 1872. The city’s center for tide forecasts had warned the tide...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out plans Sunday to end preferential treatment for European Union migrants, as opinion polls showed his Conservative Party has the highest level of support since 2017 ahead of next month's election. The Dec. 12 election was called to break the...

French police arrested 254 people during clashes in Paris and other cities on the first anniversary of the "yellow vest" movement, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Sunday. The violence in Paris, where police battled rioters for hours around the southeastern Place d'Italie square,...

French police fired water cannon and fired tear gas in Paris on Saturday to drive back protesters marking the first anniversary of anti-government “yellow vest” demonstrations. Demonstrators, many clad in black and hiding their faces, vandalized an HSBC bank branch at the Place d’Italie....