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Theresa May’s Brexit “war cabinet” of senior ministers is set to thrash out the thorniest issues for Britain’s future relationship with the EU at a crunch meeting on Wednesday. The prime minister and key cabinet ministers on different...

President reportedly seeks parade in model of France’s Bastille Day celebration, prompting one veterans’ group to call him ‘a wannabe banana republic strongman’ Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to plan a military parade that would see...

A Russian pilot who was shot down in Syria has been posthumously honored after reportedly killing himself with a grenade. Russian warplanes have been ordered to fly higher as they intensify attacks in Idlib. The Russian...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Pope Francis for “cordial” private talks on Monday, marking the first visit to the Vatican by a Turkish head of state since 1959. Erdogan and the pontiff “spoke about the...

20 years and 40 collections add up to an important chapter of the Italian fashion history, written by an icon of the international style: Francesco Scognamiglio. The famous couturier closed another loop of his career which was started...

A strange and worrisome silence settled over Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa after Houthi rebels seized power in broad daylight one September day in 2014. For weeks, rumors had been floating that something of this sort would...

I have been researching Muslim women’s fashion since 2004. My comparative investigation has taken me to three locations: Tehran, Iran; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and Istanbul, Turkey. While there have been studies of Muslim women’s clothing in many...

After Bosnian Croats called for the establishment of a third, Croat-ed entity in the country, the Bosniak member of the tripartite presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, warned that this could cause armed conflict. Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the...

Some 61 per cent of Macedonians support a solution to the dispute with Greece over their country’s name, if it speeds up Macedonia’s entry into NATO and the EU, a survey by the Skopje-based Institute for...

Silvio Berlusconi has pledged to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants from Italy should his centre-right coalition enter government after elections on 4 March, as tensions simmer over the shooting of six Africans by a far-right extremist on Saturday....