The incident came as President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing a new bill that restricts the ability to film police, which has prompted protests from civil liberties groups and journalists concerned that it would allow MORE
The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been instructed to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran before President Trump leaves office, senior Israeli officials tell me. MORE
As this election meltdown continues, observers from around the world are weighing in on the dysfunction with various reactions. The U.S. had set itself up as a model for democratic elections, impressing some with the MORE
Following the defeat of key parts of proposed Brexit legislation in the Lords, a government spokesperson said: We are disappointed that the House of Lords has voted to remove clauses from the UK internal market bill, which was backed MORE
A foreign policy advisor to President-elect Joe Biden has said that Britain’s declining influence in the world, caused by Brexit, meant that the US’ relationship with the UK might not “matter that much” once Biden MORE
Israel has agreed to allow the U.S. to sell “certain weapons” to the United Arab Emirates, opening the door to the sale of F-35 fighter jets to the Middle Eastern country. The agreement, which was MORE
The United States revealed on Thursday it had seized Iranian missiles shipped to Yemen and sold 1.1 million barrels of previously seized Iranian oil that was bound for Venezuela, in the Trump administration’s latest move MORE
An attacker armed with a knife killed three people inside a church Thursday in the southern French city of Nice, prompting the government to raise its security alert status to the maximum level hours before MORE
“Food security crisis means acute malnutrition among under-fives at highest levels since war engulfed the country.” Almost 100,000 children under the age of five are at risk of dying in Yemen as the country slides back into MORE
In a significant shift since 2000, the GOP has taken to demonising and encouraging violence against its opponents, adopting attitudes and tactics comparable to ruling nationalist parties in Hungary, India, Poland and Turkey. The Republican MORE
CARACAS — Prominent Venezuelan opposition activist Leopoldo López slipped across the border into Colombia on Saturday, political allies said, after more than a year inside the Spanish Embassy in Caracas following the failure of a MORE
Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman according to the Women, Peace and Security Index established by Georgetown University. None of the top twenty countries on the Georgetown index – MORE
A high school teacher in a Paris suburb was decapitated Friday afternoon, French authorities said, in an attack that occurred after the teacher had allegedly shown caricatures of the prophet Muhammad to his students. The MORE
Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to portray himself as an anti-corruption crusader have suffered another blow after police reportedly seized a wad of banknotes from between the clenched buttocks of one of his allies. Chico Rodrigues, the MORE
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, the Russian state news agency TASS reported Thursday. Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the nomination did not come from the MORE
“Where’s my favorite dictator?” US President Donald Trump reportedly asked while waiting for his Egyptian counterpart, former general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, on the sidelines of the G7 summit last year. It should come as no surprise MORE
Hosted by his close ally Donald Trump, Netanyahu will on Tuesday sign agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates that, while falling short of full peace deals, allow the countries to establish open business, direct flights and diplomatic relations. MORE
In retaliation to Trump’s decision to kill a powerful Iranian general earlier this year, it appears the Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa, U.S. intelligence reports say, according MORE
Within less than two weeks, fluttering red and white tape has become a symbol of resistance, hanging from street lamps, bicycle handlebars and house entrances; it is everywhere these days in the Hungarian capital. It MORE
A huge fire broke out at the Port of Beirut on Thursday, triggering panic among residents traumatized by last month’s massive explosion there that killed and injured thousands of people. It was not immediately clear what caused MORE
Firefighters on Wednesday fought to contain multiple fires at Greece’s largest migrant camp located on the island of Lesbos. Some of the firefighters said they “met resistance” from some of the camp’s 12,000 residents as they MORE
The same Norwegian lawmaker who nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his fiddling with North Korea, has done it again. “It is for his contribution for peace between Israel and the MORE
The UK is preparing legislation which will “break international law in a very specific and limited way,” a cabinet minister has said in the House of Commons. MORE
At least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of wars fought by the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001 — more than from all conflicts since 1900 except for World War II, according MORE
According to Sud-Ouest, an 82-year-old man became irritated by the buzzing of a fly while eating dinner Friday evening in his home in in Parcoul-Chenaud, a village in the Dordogne region in southwestern France, and MORE