British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has put his Brexit withdrawal deal at the centre of his election campaign, rejecting an electoral pact with the Brexit Party that would mean he would have to embrace leaving the European Union without a deal. Johnson had previously pledged to take...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, kicks off his election campaign on Thursday with a vow to take on Britain’s “rigged system”, which he said was run by a privileged elite of tax dodgers, billionaire owners and bad bosses. On the day Britain was supposed to leave the...

 A small Canadian opposition party which could help keep the new minority government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power on Wednesday demanded quick action on two of its priorities. New Democratic Party (NPD) leader Jagmeet Singh told reporters he wanted the ruling Liberals to...

Emergency services cordoned off part of one of London’s busiest shopping streets on Wednesday after reports of a chemical spillage that led to one person being taken to hospital. Police said they were not treating the incident as terror-related after they were called to commercial premises...

Britain will hold its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally won parliamentary approval for a gamble on a snap ballot that he hopes will break the deadlock over Brexit. Just two days before the third Brexit deadline of Oct. 31 will be missed...

Britain is set to hold an early election on Dec. 12, after a bill authorizing the vote was passed by the House of Commons. Lawmakers voted 438-20 in favor of the bill to give Prime Minister Boris Johnson the early election he craves. It will become law once it is approved by the...

Italy said Tuesday it would let a French charity rescue ship disembark 104 migrants after the vessel spent 11 days at sea waiting for authorization to dock. The interior ministry said in a statement that the Ocean Viking could head to the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, adding that France and...

European Council President Donald Tusk confirmed Tuesday the latest Brexit extension has been approved for up to January 31 – and warned "it may be the last one". "To my British friends, the EU27 has formally adopted the extension. It may be the last one. Please make the best use of this...

French police have arrested a man suspected of firing shots at a mosque in Bayonne in the southwest of France on Monday. Two people, aged 74 and 78, were seriously injured in the shooting at 1420 GMT as they tried to prevent the attacker from setting fire to the mosque. The shooter also...

The European Union agreed a three-month flexible delay on Monday to Britain’s exit from the bloc as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushes for an election after opponents forced him to request an extension he had vowed never to ask for. Just days before the United Kingdom is formally due to...

Violent protests that erupted across Catalonia after nine separatist leaders were jailed this month makes conflict over the region's place within Spain "visible" worldwide, a leading separatist said Monday. "The world is like that. It is these incidents which get us continuously in the...

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed no let up in his drive to implement far-reaching pension reforms despite a looming winter of strikes by unions angered by the plan, in an interview broadcast Monday. Macron told RTL radio that there would be "no complacency or weakness" in pushing...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make a fresh push on Monday for an early election as EU leaders prepare to back yet another Brexit delay, just days before the departure deadline. Johnson was forced to abandon his promise to leave the European Union on October 31, after MPs...

Belgium's King Philippe officially named Budget Minister Sophie Wilmes interim prime minister on Sunday, making her the first woman to hold the post. Wilmes, a liberal francophone, replaces Charles Michel, who is set to take over as European Council president in December. Wilmes, 44,...

Britain appeared to move a step closer Sunday to holding an early election in December, after two opposition parties backed the idea -- but only if EU leaders delay Brexit until January. The Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Liberal Democrats broke ranks with the main opposition Labour...

Tens of thousands of people marched Sunday for Spanish unity, staging a counter-rally in Barcelona a day after 350,000 Catalan separatists held a protest over the jailing of nine regional leaders. Around 80,000 people, according to a police estimate, marched down Barcelona's central Gracia...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party holds a 16-point lead over the opposition Labour Party ahead of a parliamentary vote on Monday on whether to hold a snap general election, according to an Opinium poll. According to the survey, support for the Conservative Party rose...

Thousands of people joined a rally called by Spain's Vox in Madrid on Saturday, with leader Santiago Abascal telling the crowds only his far-right faction could handle the Catalan crisis. Shouting "Viva Espana", they turned the city's Columbus Square into a sea of red-and-yellow, as the...

Maria Butina, who served nine months in a U.S. jail for acting as a Russian government agent, arrived inMoscow on Saturday, a day after her release from prison. Butina arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after leaving Miami, AFP journalists said. She had been held in Florida's...

LONDON (AP) — European Union ambassadors agreed Friday that the bloc should grant Britain's request for another extension to the Brexit deadline but have not yet figured out how long that delay should be. Speaking Friday in Brussels after EU ambassadors met with the EU Brexit chief...