The European Union fully supports the international nuclear accord with Iran and wants rival powers to avoid any further escalation over the issue, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday. “We will continue to support it as much as we can with all our instruments and all...

European elections will be difficult for Britain’s governing Conservatives, their education minister said on Sunday, after the party slumped into fourth place in an opinion poll and a new Brexit Party took top spot. Almost three years since Britain voted to leave the European Union, the...

Prime Minister Theresa May does not need to spell out a timetable for her departure, prisons minister Robert Buckland said on Sunday, adding the leader had already announced she would leave office after the first phase of Brexit. May, who offered to quit if her deal to leave the European...

Major Yellow Vest protests have been planned in the French cities of Nantes and Lyon on Saturday, as the movement seeks to rebuild momentum after last weekend’s record low turnout. The 26th consecutive weekend of demonstrations comes just two weeks before this month’s critical European...

British Prime Minister Theresa May should set a date for her departure next week when she meets leaders of an influential group of Conservative lawmakers to address her future, the group's chairman said Saturday. Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, which can make or break party...

A group of top French experts on Friday slammed efforts by social networks to self-regulate and their "lack of credibility" as President Emmanuel Macron met Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg for talks. The leading officials and experts commissioned by the French government called for...

A London mosque was on lockdown Thursday after a man carrying a gun tried to enter it during Ramadan prayers. Metropolitan Police confirmed that a big police presence will remain at the Seven Kings Mosque in Ilford, northeast London. Worshippers at the mosque reportedly chased the...

The number of overnight stays in hotels in France slumped in the first quarter, especially in Paris, the national statistics office said Thursday, blaming the nationwide "yellow vest" protest movement for putting off foreign tourists. In the first three months of 2019, the number of...

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday compared her Brexit battle with Brussels to Liverpool footballers' stirring Champions League comeback against Barcelona -- risking ridicule from the left-leaning city. The English club lost the first leg of the semi-final clash 3-0 in Spain...

President Emmanuel Macron reiterated France's support for Libya's beleaguered Government of National Accord (GNA), after talks Wednesday with Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, the French presidency said in a statement. "In this context, a proposal was made for tracing a ceasefire line, under...

Britain will hold elections to the European Parliament later this month regardless of what happens in ongoing talks with the opposition to pass a Brexit deal, Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy said on Tuesday. "Given how little time there is... it is regrettably not going to be...

British Prime Minister Theresa May faced renewed pressure Tuesday from lawmakers in her Conservative Party to abandon efforts to seek a Brexit compromise deal with the opposition Labor Party. After several weeks of fruitless negotiations, senior Conservative and Labor lawmakers resumed...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced initiatives to protect biodiversity and the environment, following the publication of landmark UN report on the state of the natural world. "What is at stake is the very possibility of having a habitable Earth," Macron said after meeting...

Facebook on Monday said it removed more pages, groups and accounts that originated in Russia and were being deceptive about who was behind them and what they were up to. The takedown at Facebook and its image-centric social network Instagram was described as part of an ongoing battle...

Germany has failed to condemn Israel’s excessive and disproportionate use of force against civilians over the weekend in the Gaza Strip. Deputy government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer told a news conference on Monday that Israel had the right to "self-defense" and to respond appropriately to...

At least 13 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday when the plane caught fire mid-air and made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making an emergency landing...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has broken the terms of confidential talks with the opposition Labour Party on a Brexit compromise and can no longer be trusted, Labour finance policy chief John McDonnell told the BBC Sunday. Asked if he trusted May, McDonnell said: "No, sorry. Not after...

British aid minister Rory Stewart said on Sunday the government and the opposition Labour Party agreed on almost everything about arrangements for Brexit, and that a deal would be easy to do if its leader Jeremy Corbyn wanted one. “I think a deal can be done. A lot of this rests, to be...

Film stars Juliette Binoche and Emmanuelle Beart joined hundreds of people from the arts world in backing France's "yellow vests" movement Saturday, as the latest anti-government marches got underway Saturday. Binoche and Beart joined 1,400 signatories to an open letter published in the...

Britain’s governing Conservatives need to be open to compromise with the opposition Labour Party in order to deliver Brexit following heavy losses in Thursday’s local elections, senior ministers said on Saturday. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives lost 1,332 seats on English local...