Donald Trump offered Julian Assange a pardon if he would say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic party emails, a court in London has been told. The extraordinary claim was made at Westminster magistrates MORE
Levels of food insecurity in Britain are among the highest in Europe. More than four million children in one of the richest countries in the world are growing up in poverty, their access to adequate MORE
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke Friday morning in Munich, Germany, at the 56th Munich Security Conference, and started off with a slam to Trump’s foreign policy “America First.” “Our closest ally, the United States of MORE
A cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, contains over one third of all the number of cases of COVID-19 Coronavirus outside of mainland China. Of the 3,711 passengers and crew aboard the Diamond Princess, nearly MORE
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will give a speech at Dresden’s Palace of Culture, walking a fine line between remembering those killed in the Allied air raids on the eastern city and stressing Germany’s responsibility for the MORE
Within hours of vote-counting in high-stake New Delhi state elections, it quickly became clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was facing a major defeat by the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). […] MORE
Mexican children take up arms in fight against drug gangs With baseball caps and scarves covering their faces, only their serious eyes are visible as a dozen children stand to attention, rifles by their side. MORE
Jakraphanth Thomma, a junior officer, killed his commanding officer before stealing weapons from a military camp on Saturday afternoon, a defence spokesperson told BBC Thai. The suspect, whose motives remain unclear, then drove to a MORE
Exactly one week ago, on January 29, 2020, Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, ceremoniously commemorated the victims of the Holocaust. The ceremony marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. And MORE
Amer Fakhoury, 57, was taken into custody on Sept. 12 while on a family vacation to his home country. He allegedly served as a senior warden at the notorious Khiam detention center in the 1980s MORE
At least 200 Salvadoran migrants and asylum seekers have been killed, raped or tortured after being deported back to El Salvador by the United States government which is turning a blind eye to widely known dangers, a MORE
Source: Political journalists boycotted a Downing Street briefing on Monday after one of Boris Johnson’s aides banned selected reporters from attending. The confrontation took place inside No 10 after Lee Cain, Johnson’s most senior communications MORE
Iran said on Tuesday that its top court had confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man accused of spying for US intelligence. Amir Rahimpour was found guilty of passing along information about Iran’s nuclear MORE
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday that the coronovirus outbreak could bring jobs back to the U.S. and Mexico. “Well, first of all, every American’s heart has to go out to the victims of MORE
The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China MORE
The UK will officially leave the European Union at 23:00 GMT, ending 47 years of membership. In a video message to be released an hour earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson – who led the 2016 MORE
The plan, which includes a map outlining proposed new Israeli borders, provides for Israeli sovereignty over much of the Jordan Valley, a strategic area on the eastern frontier of the West Bank abutting Jordan, a MORE
In 2019, as anti-government protests spread throughout Hong Kong, more than 100 Lennon Walls, covered in sticky notes and other creative displays, appeared around the city. Like the rivers of protesters flowing through Hong Kong’s urban MORE
Trump is expected to detail Jared Kushner’s peace plan with both Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz in a Washington meeting on Monday, amid global doubts about its substance and timing. As Trump is under an MORE
White House may stop helping France fight African jihadis with drones and refueling planes. Experts say that could open the door to more terrorism. Source: WASHINGTON — France is appealing to President Donald Trump not MORE
In a wide-ranging speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) […] Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that Germany had made a mistake during the 2015 refugee crisis. Not […] by welcoming asylum-seekers fleeing conflict, but by not MORE
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer banned on Thursday a right-wing extremist group that referred to itself as “Adolf Hitler’s task force.” […] The neo-Nazi group, Combat 18, went against Germany’s constitutional order and was similar in MORE
In Davos, Trump spoke a bit about his impeachment trial calling the Impeachment Managers, “major sleaze bags, they’re very dishonest people.” Speaking with reporters at the end of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump MORE
As his impeachment trial gets underway, Trump delivered a speech at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The four-day summit includes some of the world’s top political and business leaders who will discuss the MORE
The day after the missile strikes, President Donald Trump said that no American or Iraqi lives were lost because of precautions that had been taken, the dispersal of forces “and an early warning system that MORE