When President Trump visited a NATO meeting and a Group of 7 summit on his first trip abroad as U.S. leader in May, some European leaders hesitated to say too much about his controversial views on such issues as trade, immigration and the environment. But two months later, they appear more willing...
Cardinal George Pell is the highest ranking Vatican official to be formally charged with sexual assault in connection with the scandals that have dogged the Roman Catholic church for decades.
Chancellor Angela Merkel surprised Germans and her own conservative party just three months before the Sept. 24 election by abruptly signaling her support for same-sex marriage — a major shift for the normally cautious leader. Even though Germany, generally considered progressive on social issues,...
A cyberattack that started in Ukraine before rippling across Europe on Tuesday had security experts racing to understand the intent of the latest computer virus to spook global Internet users. The so-called Petya virus bore some resemblance to a growing wave of international ransomware attacks...
Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday attempted to allay the fears of European nationals living in Britain, saying they would not be forced to pack their bags once the country exits the European Union. “We want you to stay,” she told the roughly 3 million EU citizens who live and work in Britain...
The evacuation of hundreds of London public housing residents from their apartments rolled on Saturday as the fallout from Britain's deadliest fire in generations continued to intensify and turn into a full-blown crisis. More than a week after a council-owned west London residential tower block...
European Union leaders Friday were not impressed with British Prime Minister Theresa May's initial proposal to protect the rights of millions of citizens from different countries when Britain exits the bloc. May’s offer to agree to residency, healthcare and other social benefits to citizens from...
When it comes to accusations that Russia hacked or otherwise interfered in last year’s U.S. presidential election, the Kremlin has consistently denied any involvement. Now, some Russian officials are pointing the finger at Washington, saying it’s America that is meddling in Moscow’s domestic affairs....
As many as 600 high-rise residential buildings across England use cladding that is similar to the material used on Grenfell Tower, where at least 79 people lost their lives in a fire last week. The British government said Thursday that authorities were working to carry out safety checks on all...
Despite concerns about such issues as rising food prices and tension with the West, many Russians support the direction the country is headed under President Vladimir Putin, according to a new poll. About 87% of the respondents said they had confidence in Putin’s handling of foreign affairs, and...
Once shaded in canopies of leaves, the N-236-1 is a rural road that cuts through central Portugal, hugging hillsides pungent with eucalyptus and pine. Now it is littered with husks of burned cars. Along the shoulder, ashen wisps of tree trunks stand sentinel like totem poles. A headline in Portugal’s...
When the Ramadan fast ended for the day around 9:30 p.m., Muslim men packed into Cafe Salaam on Rock Street to eat. A group of Algerians hung outside chatting in Arabic, sipping coffee and exchanging animated stories about what went down the night before. A man had driven a rental van into a crowd...
Amid deep uncertainty over the future relationship between Britain and the European Union, negotiators from both sides did their best to put a positive spin on the first official day of divorce talks. “There is more that unites us than divides us,” Britain’s top negotiator, David Davis, told reporters...
Russia’s Defense Ministry warned sternly Monday that it would target U.S. warplanes flying in a conflict zone of Syria, raising the stakes in a war that now involves more than a dozen countries and has long held the potential for a superpower confrontation. Russia was responding to the U.S. downing...
In a city shaken by a string of recent attacks blamed on Islamist extremists, it was an all-too familiar scene: A van tearing through a crowd, leaving bloodied and terrified people in its wake. Only this time, authorities say the driver was 47-year-old Darren Osborne, a father of four from Wales...
As predicted, French President Emmanuel Macron’s new party won a majority in Parliament in a second round of voting on Sunday, giving him commanding control of the country’s political system. The results, however, did not bring the crushing landslide almost every poll had forecast. The new leader’s...
On the streets around the charred Grenfell Tower, Prime Minister Theresa May’s name is being uttered in angry tones with rising frequency. “She didn’t speak to anyone when she came here.” “She’s supposed to be our leader." “Coward.” Those are just some of the words local residents have said during...
Authorities said Friday that at least 30 people are known to have died when fire gutted a 24-story west London apartment building, yet with the news came another bleak admission: The death toll is expected to rise even further. Metropolitan Police Cmdr. Stuart Cundy held a somber news conference...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday presented himself as both a czar-like figure able to solve domestic problems and the guardian of the nation’s interests against an increasingly combative West. In an orchestrated, annual call-in show called “Direct Line With President Putin,” the Kremlin...
As the time for afternoon prayers approaches, Onder Soy puts on a white robe and cap and switches on the microphone in a small 19th century room adjoining the Hagia Sophia. Soon, Soy’s melodic call to prayer rings out over a square filled with tourists hurrying to visit some of Turkey’s most famous...
At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured in an overnight blaze that ripped through a 24-story residential tower in a densely populated neighborhood in London on Wednesday, transforming the night sky into a huge column of fire and smoke. Earlier, six deaths had been confirmed. “This is...
Russia’s second wave of nationwide anti-corruption demonstrations ended again in mass detentions by police Monday, including the arrest of the movement’s organizer, opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Navalny, a fierce Kremlin critic who says he will challenge President Vladimir Putin in next year’s...
French President Emmanuel Macron emerged triumphant Sunday for the second time in a month after voters gave his party a ringing endorsement in the first round of parliamentary elections. Preliminary estimates, based on exit polls and early vote-counting, suggested that Macron's newly formed La...
Stepan Vyboch is a 22-year-old ecology major who started his own YouTube channel to discuss his views on Russia’s big issues. Some of his videos are political. Others are snippets of events in Ramenskoye, the university student’s suburban hometown about 30 miles south of Moscow. Bright, technically...
France goes to the polls again Sunday for a vote expected to give the country’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, substantial backing to push through his reformist program. Analysts predict the French leader will win an outright majority in the country’s National Assembly despite the fact that he...
Prime Minister Theresa May’s two closest aides resigned Saturday amid the fallout over her Conservative Party’s disastrous general election campaign. Chiefs of Staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill became the first high-profile members of May’s core team to step down as the party worked out a way...
The crowded but cozy, two-room apartment where Aleksander and Alyona Rumyantsev live in northwest Moscow once belonged to Alyona’s great-grandparents, who received the apartment from the Soviet government. The small rooms and running water were a drastic improvement from the barracks they had moved...
A defiant Theresa May vowed to stay on as prime minister and continue to lead the United Kingdom out of the European Union after her disastrous election gamble led to the loss of her Conservative Party’s majority in Parliament. Despite calls to step down — including from opposition Labor Party...
Britain’s opposition Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called on Prime Minister Theresa May to step down early Friday after exit polling projected that she could fall short of a majority in Parliament. If confirmed, the result would be a stunning setback for May, who called a snap election to strengthen...
For the Conservative Party, it was supposed to be an election about who was best placed to lead the country as it embarks on the complex negotiations that will take Britain out of the European Union. For voters, Thursday’s general election has become about far more than the stability the party’s...
In a scene that has played out many times around the world, locals in a tiny village in Italy said Tuesday that they could not believe the young man they knew, Youssef Zaghba, was identified as one of three men who took part in a terrorist attack in London that left seven people dead. “He was normal...
More than 100 Muslim leaders across Britain have joined forces to denounce the actions of the three London Bridge attackers by declaring that they will refuse to perform funeral prayers for them. In an unprecedented show of solidarity and outrage at the latest terrorist incident to hit Britain,...
British police on Tuesday named the third London Bridge attacker as 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba, an Italian national of Moroccan descent who lived in east London. “He was normal, happy to say ‘buongiorno, buonasera,’ said Franco Bortolini, 77, an upstairs neighbor to Zaghba’s mother in the village...
A hammer-wielding assailant shouting, “This is for Syria!,” attacked police outside Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday, setting off a security scramble at one of Paris’ best-known landmarks. But he was wounded by police gunfire before he could seriously injure anyone. The abortive attack was the second...
With less than 72 hours to go until voters head to the polls in Britain, the focus of the general election campaign shifted sharply to policing and security on Monday in the wake of the latest London terrorist attack. As Londoners attempted to resume their normal lives following Saturday night’s...
Three days before a British general election in which security concerns have surged to the fore, Scotland Yard acknowledged Monday that the extremist Islamist views of one of three slain attackers who carried out a weekend terrorist strike had been known to investigators. On the first weekday after...
Luxury yachts slide past swimmers cooling off in the blue waters of the Adriatic. Mountains in pastel greens and grays tower in the background. Tourists sip on Aperol Spritz and espressos, enjoying platters of shrimp, octopus and calamari. It is an idyllic scene. Yet there is tension amid the splendor...
At 9:58 p.m. on Saturday night, a white van with yellow stripes began to zigzag south across London Bridge. As locals and tourists ambled along the bustling span of the River Thames, casually taking in panoramic views of the city and the nearby historic Tower Bridge, the vehicle suddenly picked...
In one of the most cosmopolitan of world cities, resilience was the order of the day on Sunday. Londoners expressed defiance and solidarity in the wake of a ramming-and-slashing attack reportedly claimed by Islamic State that killed seven people and injured dozens in a storied slice of the city,...
A careening van plowed into pedestrians Saturday night on one of London’s iconic bridges before attackers leaped from the vehicle and began stabbing patrons in a nearby nightlife area, witnesses said, in what police described as the country’s third major terrorist attack in a three-month span. ...
Few Americans knew Nigel Farage’s name. But the flamboyant far-right British politician and radio host, a key architect of Britain’s vote to exit the European Union, took on an oddly Zelig-like ubiquity as Donald Trump captured first the Republican nomination and then the presidency. Here was Farage,...
A casual observer could be excused for thinking that there are three candidates in the election for German chancellor: Angela Merkel, Martin Schulz and Donald Trump. And the last of those seems to be getting the most attention. The U.S. president and his “America first” policies have turned into...
Leo Varadkar, a doctor and Ireland’s minister overseeing the country’s social welfare system, Friday became the new leader of the ruling Fine Gael party, bringing him one step closer to becoming the next prime minister. Varadkar, who would be the country’s first prime minister who has come out...
After months of categorically denying Russian involvement in cyberattacks during last year’s U.S. presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that although the Kremlin has never used state-sponsored cyberattacks to meddle in other countries’ elections, some “patriotically...
Leo Varadkar, a doctor and Ireland’s minister for social protection, may be close to becoming the country’s next prime minister, also known as the taoiseach. Varadkar, who would be the country’s first openly gay prime minister and the first of South Asian descent, appears to be favored over candidate...
In talks Monday at the royal palace of Versailles outside Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed a variety of contentious issues, including the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine and accusations of Russian interference in the recent French elections. ...
Heads banging and arms flailing, the crowd writhes across a floor slick with melted snow dragged in from outside, slipping in piles as a death metal guitarist lays on the doom and a grimacing drummer plays insistent blast beats. A beer bottle smashes. Someone else falls. A young woman visiting...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel signaled Sunday she was giving up hope that Europe can rely on the United States while Donald Trump is president. Merkel spent the last six months trying to connect with Trump to maintain U.S. support on a variety of issues. But she struck of tone of exasperation...