Politics

Deeply-rooted misogyny has a strong influence on the thinking of female voters, writes Marcie Bianco. Why do white women support Roy Moore? Of course, not all white women. But on the eve of the divisive Alabama...

A Croatian police inspector told the retrial of Branimir Glavas that he overheard a conversation implying that the 1990s general was wrongly accused of war crimes against Serbs. Police inspector Zeljko Mazar on Friday told the...

BARCELONA — Alfred Bosch, a member of the Barcelona City Council from the left-wing, pro-independence Esquerra Republicana party, sees Catalonia’s referendum on independence in dramatic terms. “The legality of the whole process is not the main...

The EU has told Theresa May it will not start discussing the terms of a trade relationship with the UK until February at the earliest, and only then if the British prime minister has taken a grip of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he would seek re-election in March 2018, a contest opinion polls show he will comfortably win, setting the stage for him to extend his dominance of Russia’s political landscape into a...

At least 23 people have been killed by airstrikes in Eastern Ghouta as Syrian government forces intensify their efforts to retake the rebel stronghold. Ghouta has been under siege since 2012 and the area is gripped...

Several months ago, Sen. Lamar Alexander phoned Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a message: Back off. Alexander, the Republican chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, was furious that a top DeVos aide was circumventing a new...

Russia’s meteorological service has confirmed “extremely high” concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 were found in several parts of the country in late September, confirming European reports about the contamination this month. “Probes of radioactive aerosols...

Vladimir Putin has hosted Bashar al-Assad for talks during which the two presidents agreed the focus in the Syrian conflict was switching from military operations to the search for a political solution. The Russian president met his Syrian...

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on them to rethink their positions after coalition talks with Merkel collapsed. Germany’s president is to meet party leaders after talks to form a new government between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc,...