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UK Parliament votes to delay decision on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal

The vote means Mr Johnson can not secure parliamentary approval his deal by the end of 19 October and is required by the terms of the so-called Benn Act to writ...

Egypt archaeologists find 20 ancient coffins near Luxor

As Lateshia Beachum reports for the Washington Post , the coffins-decorated in shades of red, green, white and black-were found stacked in two layers in a gian...

25% US Tariff Hits EU Agricultural Goods

The 25% tariff on the import of Scottish single-malt whisky to the United States, which came into force last night, will lose the industry 20% of its USA export...

Hillary Clinton suggests Russians are "grooming" a 2020 Democratic candidate

Gabbard has also firmly stated that she is not planning a third party candidacy should her bid for the Democratic nomination fail. But the former first lady sai...

Emmanuel Macron Says Does Not Want To See New Brexit Delay

Johnson's Conservative Party holds only 288 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons, so he will have to rely on support from other parties and independent lawm...

Mulvaney Acknowledges Assistance To Ukraine Was Tied To Investigating Corruption

Trump appeared satisfied with Mulvaney's clarification and the president dismissed the entire House inquiry as "a bad witch hunt". The march toward an impe...

Pence, Giuliani defy demands by Congress for documents

The subpoena sent by House Democrats on September 30 was "overbroad, unduly burdensome, and seeks documents beyond the scope of a legitimate inquiry", Sale wrot...

Lebanon protests over proposed taxes escalate

Hariri appeared to suggest he would resign if that did not happen but stopped short of saying it. Forty members of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) ...

Hillary Clinton Suggests Tulsi Gabbard Is A ‘Russian Asset’

Clinton went on to label Stein a "Russian asset". "She's the favorite of the Russians". "I mean totally!" Clinton continued. "So I don't know who it's going to ...

Pakistan kept on terrorism financing ‘grey list’ by global watchdog

In a statement after meetings this week at its Paris headquarters, the FATF said Pakistan has addressed only five of 27 measures required to avoid being black...

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders to be endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

In a tweet , a senior CNN political journalist reported that Tlaib and Omar would also be endorsing Sanders. Like Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez identifies as a D...

United Nations urges Turkey to investigate executions in Syria

The American move effectively abandoned the Kurdish fighters, whom Washington had previously relied upon to wage a ground war against the Islamic State , and o...

Burnett knocks Mulvaney's statement: 'The tape speaks for itself'

When pressed about any possible financial profit the president might make, Mulvaney said: "Consider that Donald Trump's brand is strong enough as it is and do...

Diplomatic immunity crash: Donald Trump stuns dead teen's parents

Speaking to British TV station Sky News, Harry Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said Trump told the family during their White House visit that Sacoola...

FAA wants answers from Boeing about withheld internal communications on 737 MAX

The content of the 2016 messages isn't clear, but FAA says they characterize 'certain communications with the FAA during the original certification of the 737 ...

Many Killed In Mosque Blasts In Eastern Afghanistan

Khogyani further added that the explosion took place during the Friday prayers inside a mosque in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar. Zahir Adil, spokesman for ...

British family decries treatment by USA after border crossing near Vancouver

The stretch of border the family had crossed onto is separated by a shallow ditch, with 0 Avenue on the Aldergrove, B.C., side and East Boundary Road on the Was...

Prosecutions 'should occur' after footage reveals racehorse cruelty and slaughter

Elio Celotto, from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, said his organisation had been watching and recording the daily activities of the Queensland'...

Cartel gunmen free El Chapo's son from Mexican police while terrorizing city

Officials said late Thursday that troops had come under fire from a house while on patrol and found Ovidio Guzmán López inside. Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza, a l...

‘Venom is real!’: Intelligent, goo-like ‘blob’ unveiled at Paris zoo

It's also precisely as gross as you'd imagine, but biologists are fascinated by The Blob and other slime moulds like it. Dussutour explained that while the ...

Authorities Bust 'Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website' That Offered Videos Using Bitcoin

The website allowed users to upload videos; 45% of the illicit images authorities had not previously seen. The owner of the Welcome the Video website was ...

Iran Demands Immediate End to Turkish Strikes on Syria

The Turkish defence ministry said the army had hit a total of 181 militant targets with air strikes and howitzers since the start of operation. Turkey accuses...

Turkish forces intensify bombardment around Syrian town

The White House on October 6 announced a surprise decision by Trump to withdraw US forces from areas along the Syrian border with Turkey, leaving Kurdish-led fo...

Hunter Biden Speaks Out

In a July 25 phone call , Trump pressured Ukraine's leader to investigate the Bidens. During the June kickoff of the Democratic debate season, former Uni...

Will and Kate take turns at the wicket in Pakistan

UK Prince William has said that he and his wife were fine after their plane aborted a landing in the Pakistani capital Islamabad twice and was forced to retur...

PM will ask for Brexit extension if no deal agreed

Finland's prime minister, Antti Rinne, who holds the EU's rotating presidency, went further, saying there was not enough time for a deal to be reached. Rather t...

Putin says Turkey's Syria operation may allow militants to escape - Ifax

He also lauded relations between the two countries, bragging about their - and his own - achievements, stressing that Ankara is actually "an important member in...

Protests over taxes threaten Lebanon's political establishment

All schools, universities and banks across the country are closed Friday on government orders in anticipation of further protests. But it scrapped the plans h...

Some fighting reported in Syria-Turkey border town despite ceasefire order

Vice President Mike Pence claims to have arranged a "cease-fire" between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds, but no one is on the same page. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Ut...

James Mattis: 'I am the Meryl Streep of generals'

At a meeting in the White House, Trump claimed that Mattis was "the world's most overrated general". "And, you do have to admit, between me and Meryl, at le...

Corbyn, Farage and Sturgeon Have All Opposed the New Brexit Deal

The Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is also against the deal . The new agreement states that this alignment would apply to goods, sanitary m...

Korean leader Kim rides white horse on sacred mountain

Gushing with an air of pomp and majesty, new propaganda pictures of Kim Jong Un have been released, potentially signaling a major policy announcement from t...

Democrat at fiery White House meeting undermines Pelosi's version of what happened

The President is now under scrutiny, the subject of an impeachment inquiry, is lashing out, and we're all making Twitter jokes about it because what else can we...

Brexit deal will minimize short-term economy hit - Irish finance minister

She also said that he settled for what she calls a "one-sided" consent mechanism involving Stormont. The EU has agreed for Northern Ireland - in what would be...

North Korea State Media: Kim's Horse Photos Portend a 'Great Event'

The images released by the state media show a bespectacled Kim wearing a long, light-brown coat and riding t through snowy fields and woods on Mt Paektu, the sp...