Nationalists surge in EU Parliament vote, but pro-EU parties remain dominant
Pro-European parties retained a firm grip on the EU parliament, provisional results from the bloc’s elections showed on Monday, though eurosceptic opponents saw strong gains....
France opposed in principle to execution in Iraq of three French Islamic State members
The French foreign ministry said on Monday it was opposed in principle to the death penalty, but also said it accepted Iraqi sovereignty as Iraq’s...
Trump presses Japan over trade gap, expects ‘good things’ from North Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to even out a trade imbalance with the United States and expressed confidence,...
Trump says will work with Japan’s Abe to bring abductees home from North Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would work with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bring home Japanese citizens who were kidnapped by...
Pro-Europe vote fragments but limits nationalist gains in EU election
Parties committed to strengthening the European Union held on to two-thirds of seats in the EU parliament, official projections from the bloc’s elections showed on...
Vietnam swine fever cull surges, 1.7 million pigs dead
Vietnam culled a further 500,000 pigs over the past two weeks to tackle an oubreak of African swine fever, taking the total killed so far...
Blood and thunder at sea: British veteran remembers D-Day
Seventy-five years ago, a young British sailor stood on the bridge of a warship, its gun barrels pointing out to the coast of France and...
Le Pen beats Macron in France as nationalists gain in EU vote
Marine Le Pen’s far-right party edged just ahead of the centrist alliance of President Emmanuel Macron in exit polls as French voters led what pollsters...
Polish nationalists win EU vote, set stage for national ballot: exit poll
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) came out narrowly ahead in Sunday’s European Parliament vote, seen as test of the party’s nationalist, eurosceptic platform...
Conservatives take decisive lead in Greek European vote
Greece’s opposition New Democracy party took a commanding lead over the ruling leftist Syriza in European Parliament elections on Sunday, early results showed, in a...
