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Donald Trump, drawn deeper into an investigation into Russian meddling in US elections, has defended his pursuit of a business deal in Moscow at the same time he was running for president as “very legal &...

The European council president has said the UK is prepared to either cancel Brexit or to depart with no deal if MPs vote down the settlement secured by Theresa May with Brussels. Speaking at the G20 summit in...

The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, suspected of ordering the murder of the dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi and accused of war crimes in the Yemen conflict, has told the French president, Emmanuel Macron, “don’t worry”...

Macedonia’s Prime Minister on Friday said he agreed ‘in principle’ with the opposition on a draft law offering an amnesty or pardon to some of those involved in last year’s rampage in parliament. Macedonian Prime Minister...

Bosnia’s main Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA and the main Croat party, Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, are facing an unexpected challenge – despite their apparent triumph in the country’s October elections. In spite...

Police arrested one of Montenegro’s opposition leaders, MP Nebojsa Medojevic, and sent him to serve his sentence for refusing to testify in a bribery case involving the country’s special prosecutor and Podgorica’s former mayor. Police arrested...

The war crimes acquittal of the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, has angered Serbs but delighted some Bosniaks. A group of Serb war victims protested outside the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on...

China must play a leading role if the world is to draw up a new and more effective strategy to halt the collapse of life on Earth, according to senior delegates at the close of this week’s...

Italian prosecutors have named several members of Egypt’s national security agency as suspects in the alleged murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni – the first Egyptians to be named by the Italian side in connection with the...

Much of the coverage of proposed new rules released last week on how schools should handle sexual harassment allegations has focused on how the rules expand the rights of those accused — and they do. But the most...