The surprise winner of the first round of France's rightwing presidential primary, conservative ex-premier Francois

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday she would seek a fourth term in elections next year to defend democratic principles in

French voters went to the polls yesterday for the first round of a US-style primary to choose a rightwing candidate for

A UN climate summit in Marrakesh tasked with implementing the hard-won Paris Agreement moved toward its scheduled

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls yesterday warned that far-right leader Marine Le Pen had a chance of winning next year's

Britain yesterday ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, joining more than 100 other countries in a move that

Russia's state communications watchdog yesterday said it had ordered internet providers to block the LinkedIn professional

A hundred migrants were feared drowned yesterday after yet another migrant shipwreck off the Libyan coast, raising the

Turkey is to scrap the office of the prime minister in a historic switch under a government-backed proposal for a new

An anti-Mafia official at Milan's city council called on Wednesday for the Chinese buyers of soccer club AC Milan to reveal their identities, saying town hall would notify anti-money laundering authorities if there was not full disclosure.

Terrorism deaths fell last year thanks to a weakening of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Boko Haram in Nigeria, but both

More than 240 people have died in migrant boat sinkings in the Mediterranean this week, officials said yesterday as horrifying new testimony emerged from survivors of another tragedy.

Russia yesterday said it is formally withdrawing its signature from the founding statute of the International Criminal Court, saying the tribunal has failed to live up to the hopes of the international community.

The shock election of Donald Trump as US president has forced greater responsibility for defending Western values and

The Nato alliance is "absolutely vital" to US interests, President Barack Obama said yesterday, as he flew in to Europe to

French President Francois Hollande urged US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to respect a global agreement to limit

Downing Street has slapped down Nigel Farage after his visit to see Donald Trump, by declaring there will be no “third person”

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on the phone on Monday evening and agreed on the need to

A video showing two Ukrainian politicians get into a scuffle after one of them accused the other of working with the Kremlin and calling for him to be jailed went viral over social media.

Prosecutors were questioning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadoran embassy in London yesterday, the latest twist