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LONDON (AP) — The British government insisted today that its forecast of food and medicine shortages, gridlock at ports and riots in the streets after a no-deal Brexit is an avoidable worst-case scenario, as Prime…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s political opposition demanded today that Prime Minister Boris Johnson reverse his suspension of Parliament, after a court ruled that his decision to send lawmakers home less than two months before the…

PARIS (AP) — Maurice the rooster can keep crowing, a French court ruled Thursday, as it rejected a complaint from neighbors who sued over noise nuisance. Maurice’s case and several other lawsuits against the sounds…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Part of a walkway collapsed as tens of thousands of people celebrated Ashoura today, causing a stampede and killing at least 31 pilgrims on one of the most sacred religious holy days…

NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who collected DNA from Scotland’s Loch Ness suggests the lake’s fabled monster might be a giant eel. Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago in New Zealand says the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s bedeviling Brexit dilemma intensified Friday, as opposition parties refused to support Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for an election until he secures a delay to Britain’s exit from the European Union…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran was poised today to begin work on advanced centrifuges that will enrich uranium faster as the 2015 nuclear deal unravels further and a last-minute French proposal offering a $15-billion line…

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson kept up his push for an early election as a way to break Britain’s Brexit impasse, as lawmakers moved to stop the U.K. leaving the European Union next…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Parliament was attempting to defy Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans today as lawmakers sought a way out of the impasse that has gripped the nation since the 2016 vote to…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced today the government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations, bowing to one of the protesters’ demands in the hope…