A man was killed in the Israeli city of Ashkelon late on Monday by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza, becoming the first civilian casualty of the most serious fighting between Israel and…
Since the Revolution, they have been the democratic glue that binds France together. After 1789, it was decreed there should be a mayor everywhere there was a church steeple, even if only a smattering of…
A human rights organisation has accused the Hungarian government of breaking the country’s strict immigration laws by helping a fugitive former Macedonian prime minister to claim asylum. Nikola Gruevski, who served for 10 years as…
For almost 90 years, there were no bells ringing from St George’s Memorial Church in Ypres. On the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, they rang four times in memory of the…
More than 65 people were injured and almost 170 people arrested in central Paris on Saturday after violent clashes between police and "yellow vest" protesters, in a third weekend of nationwide demonstrations against high living…
Britain should grant asylum to a persecuted Pakistani Christian woman and not be put off by concerns it would lead to unrest or attacks on UK embassies, Boris Johnson has said. The former Foreign Secretary…
Three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty on Monday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies calling for political reform, as room for opposition in the semi-autonomous city shrinks under…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is coming under political pressure at home to exclude Canada from global tariffs on steel and aluminum, and while stating its preference for holding firm it’s leaving the door open…
In February this year, Oksana Bobok woke up in a Yekaterinburg hospital to be told her unborn child had been aborted. “I’d been in a coma for a month and a half. It was save…
OTTAWA — As the United States tries to light a fire under NAFTA negotiations, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada will not be bullied or pressured by the United States as part of…