As Prime Minister Theresa May braces for a new battle with MPs over Brexit, one man stands at the centre of it all with the power to shape what happens next. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow is best known for presiding over debates, bellowing “Order! Order!” at unruly lawmakers and...

The United States last year slid down the rankings of a global corruption index as America's system of checks and balances faced growing threats on Donald Trump's watch, Transparency International said Tuesday. The US lost four points to score 71 out of 100 on the watchdog's 2018 Corruption...

Britain risks crashing out of the European Union without a Brexit deal "by accident" because London cannot decide what it wants, a senior EU negotiator warned Monday. In some of her toughest remarks to date, Sabine Weyand, deputy to EU Brexit pointman Michel Barnier, criticised Prime...

The once-sprawling "caliphate" of Daesh (ISIS) has been reduced to a four-square-kilometer pocket of territory in eastern Syria, a senior Kurdish commander said Monday. With support from a U.S.-led military coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces are in the final stages of an assault...