Russia Friday rejected an appeal from London to "change its behavior" in order to mend relations that have been stung by the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. "No, we won't change [behavior] because the only thing Russia wants is beneficial relations that are based on each...

British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party on Friday, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit. May will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen, likely in late July, but has relinquished...

Britain said Thursday that resetting ties with Russia depended on Moscow changing behavior, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was time to "turn the page" on the difficult relationship. "We can only have a different relationship if Russia changes its behavior," a...

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday there was a significant risk that the international system for nuclear arms control could break down, saying talks with Washington on extending the New START nuclear arms treaty had yet to begin. Speaking in televised comments from St....

 Malta's navy said Wednesday that it had rescued a total of 271 migrants from the Mediterranean in three separate operations. The navy rescued 63 migrants in distress after their dinghy started to take in water overnight, a statement said. A patrol boat rescued another 61 migrants...

U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States and Britain could agree a "phenomenal" post-Brexit trade deal. "As the U.K. makes preparations to exit the European Union, the United States is committed to a phenomenal trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K.," Trump told a news...

Donald Trump will plunge into Britain’s Brexit crisis on Tuesday and is likely to demand that Prime Minister Theresa May’s successor ban China’s Huawei from 5G networks, as protesters mock the U.S. president across London. Feted by Queen Elizabeth and heir Prince Charles on the first day of...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Oct. 31 should be the "final" deadline for Britain's much-delayed withdrawal from the European Union. Macron was among those EU leaders opposed to granting Britain a long extension of its date for divorce when it was moved from March...

Boris Johnson, frontrunner to be Britain’s next prime minister, promised on Monday to lead the country out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without an exit deal, launching his leadership bid in a campaign video. Prime Minister Theresa May is due to resign on Friday having failed to...

A French minister said Sunday he had "no regrets" over the handling of the "yellow vest" protests, even if stun grenades and rubber bullets cost some demonstrators a hand or an eye. Junior interior minister Laurent Nunez's comments came as a group of people who said they had been mutilated...

Seventy-nine people were injured when several blasts at the explosives plant Kristall shook the central Russian town of Dzerzhinsk on Saturday, the Russian health ministry said. The blasts, around midday (0900 GMT) were heard all over the town of more than 230,000 residents and shock waves...

Over months of protests, France's Yellow Vest movement has scored some wins from the government and gained momentum, but in the long run, it faces some problems, according to an analyst of the protest movement. "The Yellow Vests have won specific gains from [French President Emanuel]...

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen appointed the head of the country's consitutional court as Austria's first female chancellor Thursday to lead an interim government until elections later in the year. Brigitte Bierlein will now be tasked with forming a cabinet after the previous...

The world risks a descent into lawlessness and a new Cold War if multilateralism fails, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday, calling on the European Union to take a lead role in fighting to preserve a rules-based global order. Speaking in the western German city of...

Turkey maintains its commitment to a full European Union membership even though the bloc has not kept its promises, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, a day after an EU report criticized Ankara on its judiciary and economic state. Announcing a number of judiciary reforms in Ankara,...

Britain's finance minister Thursday warned those in his party vying for Prime Minister Theresa May's job that a no-deal Brexit would imperil the economy and urged candidates to tone down irresponsible spending pledges. May's departure deepens the Brexit crisis as a new leader, who should be...

The suspect in the Lyon bombing finally confessed after 48 hours of intense questioning by French police, admitting that he planted the device that left 13 injured on May 24. The 24 year-old IT student admitted to fabricating the parcel bomb, stating that he planned the attack weeks ago. He...

Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union are fading, the bloc’s executive said on Wednesday, blaming authoritarian rule for worse conditions in courts, prisons and the economy. Still considered a security ally, Turkey’s candidacy to join the world’s largest trading group is frozen...

John Bercow, the speaker of Britain's House of Commons, plans to stay on despite previous expectations he was about to leave, risking the fury of hardline Brexiteers who believe he wants to thwart a no-deal departure, the Guardian newspaper reported. The speaker told the Guardian it was not...

Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday urged whoever succeeds her to get Britain out of the EU quickly but with a deal, as she met the bloc's leaders just days after announcing her resignation. May looked relaxed and smiled for the cameras as she arrived at a Brussels summit, the first one...