World Archive

U.K. Parliament on Tuesday voted to reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Prior to the vote, May told MPs they had a “duty to deliver” on the results of a 2016 referendum that started the divorce. “I believe we have a duty

Germany on Tuesday detained a German-Afghan man on suspicion he was spying for Iran while working for the German army as a linguistic and cultural adviser. The 50-year-old identified as Abdul Hamid S. was arrested in western Germany, federal prosecutors said

An upscale hotel complex in Kenya’s capital came under attack by terrorists on Tuesday, with a blast and heavy gunfire, killing at least one and injuring four. The five patients were brought to M. P. Shah Hospital and one of them

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague have acquitted Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo. He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed election in 2010. Post-election violence left 3,000 dead. Mr Gbagbo was

President Ali Bongo returned to Gabon on Monday after a three-month medical leave during which a coup attempt was thwarted, two government sources told Reuters. His return comes a week after a small military group took over the state radio station.

China will launch a probe to collect samples from the moon around the end of this year, a space official said on Monday, weeks after Beijing hailed the successful touch down on the far side of the moon. The Chang’e-4 lunar

The newly-appointed United Nations special envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen is scheduled to arrive in Damascus for a three-day visit on Tuesday, according to a U.N. source and Syrian media. The visit will be the Norwegian diplomat’s first to the war-torn

Jordanian King Abdullah II met Iraqi President Barham Saleh in Baghdad on Monday, according to state television, in the monarch’s first trip to Iraq in more than a decade. The visit is the latest in a string of top-level diplomatic encounters