Rory Stewart was knocked out of the race to become Britain's next prime minister Wednesday, leaving four candidates led by former foreign secretary Boris Johnson. International Development Secretary Stewart received the fewest votes in the third ballot of Conservative MPs and so drops out...

Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson advanced on the prize of Britain's top political job Tuesday, winning 40 percent of votes in the second round of a contest to replace Prime Minister Theresa May. Johnson, the face of the official Brexit campaign in the 2016 referendum, won 126 out of 313...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he regretted Iran’s announcement that it would exceed the allowed enriched uranium limit, but that Paris would hold talks with Iran and its partners to avoid any further escalation in the region. “I regret the Iranian announcements made today,...

Boris Johnson got a boost for his bid to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May when one of his former rivals backed his candidacy Monday and said he was almost certain to win the contest. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who dropped out of the race on Friday after winning just 20 votes...

Any suggestion of suspending Parliament to try to force through a so-called no-deal Brexit would be "scandalous" and probably will never happen, Hilary Benn, an opposition Labour lawmaker and chair of the Brexit parliamentary committee, said Sunday. One Conservative hopeful to replace Prime...

Slovak environmental lawyer Zuzana Caputova was on Saturday sworn in as the EU member's first female president, surprising observers with a speech that lacked the government criticism she was known for on the campaign trail. The community activist, who ran on the slogan "Stand up to evil,"...

Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain’s prime minister, promised he would take the United Kingdom out of the European Union by Oct. 31, saying that only by preparing to leave without an agreement could a no-deal Brexit be prevented. Johnson, a former foreign minister and London...

Russian police detained more than 400 people, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Moscow on Wednesday calling for punishment for police officers involved in the alleged framing of a journalist. Police abruptly dropped drug charges a day earlier against...

Boris Johnson, favorite to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, will commit Wednesday to taking Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31, warning the governing Conservatives that "delay means defeat" at a campaign launch. In a crowded race to replace May, Brexit has become the touchstone...

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced "capitalism gone mad" in an address Tuesday to the UN's International Labour Organization, while urging enhanced social protections in a global economy plagued by inequality. Macron made the comments at a conference marking the ILO's 100th...

Boris Johnson, the favorite to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May, was criticized Tuesday by a rival who said the former foreign minister was avoiding public scrutiny in the contest. After three years of political deadlock over Brexit, the ruling Conservative Party is picking a new...

Hungarian police Tuesday began lifting a sightseeing vessel that sank in the river Danube in Budapest last month in an accident that has claimed at least 20 lives with eight people still missing. An hour after the lifting operation began at around 6am the command bridge and upper deck of...

Sajid Javid, a candidate to be Britain's next prime minister, said Sunday he would offer to cover the cost of finding a post-Brexit border solution with Ireland – something he said would unlock fresh negotiations with the European Union. "The key is Ireland," he told Sky News. "I would...

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives slumped to a record low and fell further behind the resurgent opposition Greens in a survey published on Saturday, reflecting growing disillusionment with the ruling coalition. Doubts are mounting that Merkel’s right-left alliance can last...

Queen Elizabeth II marked her official birthday Saturday with the annual Trooping the Color parade, a traditional display of British pageantry. About 1,400 soldiers in ceremonial scarlet coats and bearskin hats marched past the queen in a ceremony on Horse Guards Parade in Westminster....

Real Madrid ended their long pursuit of Eden Hazard on Friday when they agreed to sign the Belgium winger from Chelsea on a five-year contract for a reported 100 million euros ($113.34 million), making him their joint-record signing. Real said Hazard, 28, had signed a five-year contract....

An explosion thought to have been a bomb rocked a residential street in the town of Linkoping in southern Sweden Friday, damaging several buildings and slightly injuring about 20 people, police officials said. A police bomb squad was investigating the scene of the huge blast, which...

Judges at London’s High Court have thrown out an attempt to prosecute Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to succeed Theresa May as prime minister, for lying about Brexit during the 2016 EU referendum campaign. The case revolved around a claim famously emblazoned on Johnson's "Leave" campaign...

President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France would move to ratify a wide-ranging trade deal between the EU and Canada despite criticism the pact gives excessive power to businesses while exposing many smaller firms to unfair competition. "The outcome from CETA has been positive,"...

The German government Friday slammed online hate commentaries cheering the unsolved murder of a local politician, who was vocally pro-migrant. "If someone is so hated, just because he had liberal views, that is the decline of human morality," Germany's interior minister, Horst Seehofer,...