The UN General Assembly will hold an emergency meeting next Wednesday at 3:00pm (19:00 GMT) to vote on an Arab-backed

Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada yesterday more divided than at any time in the group's 42-year history, as US President Donald Trump's "America First" policies risk causing a global trade war and deep diplomatic schisms.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been caught on tape predicting a "meltdown" in Brexit talks and musing admiringly how US President Donald Trump might handle them.

Austria yesterday said it could expel up to 60 Turkish-funded imams and their families and would shut down seven mosques as part of a

Austria could expel up to 60 Turkish-funded imams and their families as part of a crackdown on "political Islam", Interior Minister Herbert Kickl says.

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday unveiled a one-year backstop plan for the Irish border after Brexit, finding a compromise that may paper over differences in her government but may struggle to win over the European Union.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday lashed out at US trade tariffs and Western sanctions during an annual televised phone-in that also saw him warning against a possible civilization-destroying World War Three.

Nato yesterday declined an overture by Qatar to join the Western military defence alliance, saying membership was reserved to the United

Voters cast ballots in eight US states for key primary elections yesterday, with all eyes on California, where the outcome could swing

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg yesterday said he was battling to stop the increasingly bitter row between Europe and the US spilling over

Turkish police have jailed one of the country's most prominent cartoonists to serve out a 14 month sentence first handed down last year

Same-sex partners of European Union (EU) citizens have the right to live in any member state whatever their nationality, the bloc's top court rules today, even in countries that do not recognise gay marriage.

A Russian court sentences a Ukrainian journalist, Roman Sushchenko, to 12 years in jail after convicting him of spying for his native Ukraine, his lawyer says, a move likely to further sour ties between Moscow and Kiev.

Some 18,000 troops from 19 mostly Nato countries began annual US-led military exercises in Poland and the Baltic states on Sunday to

Hollywood actor Benedict Cumberbatch channelled his inner Sherlock Holmes by leaping to the defence of a cyclist under attack by

At least 35 migrants are killed when their boat sank off Tunisia’s southern coast and 67 others are rescued by the coast guard, the Defence Ministry says.

Bomb disposal experts have defused a Second World War shell found during building work at Brussels' international airport, officials said

Nationalists regained control of Catalonia's government yesterday and immediately pledged to seek independence for the wealthy region, posing a swift challenge to new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez who took office on the same day.

An anti-establishment government took power in Italy yesterday after a last-ditch coalition deal was hammered out to end months of political turmoil, narrowly avoiding snap elections in the eurozone's third largest economy.

The world's largest economies stood on the brink of all-out trade war as the EU, Canada and Mexico drew up retaliatory measures to Washington's stinging steel and aluminium tariffs that came into effect yesterday.