Politics

Jacob Rees-Mogg has said Conservative MPs must seize their chance to topple Theresa May or face the prospect of her leading the party into the next election, though he denied Eurosceptics had been humiliated by their failure...

It is the year of the woman, all right. But only for Democrats. The number of Republican women in Congress next year will actually drop, even as the ranks of Democratic women swell to record heights....

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has resigned due to differences with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a Gaza ceasefire. The move may trigger early elections. Israel’s hard-line defense minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday...

After ex-PM Nikola Gruevski fled the country to avoid serving his jail sentence, his former colleagues in government have rounded on him for evading justice and putting their own trials at risk. Macedonian authorities detained the...

Since his first day on the job, when he surrounded himself with a National Park Service police escort and rode through Washington DC on a white-nosed horse named Tonto, the US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has...

A “no deal safety net unit” is being rushed through by Scotland Yard at a cost of more than £2.4m after police chiefs warned the home secretary that losing EU tools would make it harder to...

As the final countdown begins to Tuesday’s midterm elections, the contest is turning into a tale of two presidents. The current occupant of the White House is fighting to retain control over Congress. He is also locked...

The Democratic Party, divided into different camps since its bruising presidential election defeat, has come together recently. But Democrats disagree on whether Donald Trump played a role in the party’s newfound unity.      Melissa Byrne is...

Donald Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to visit Washington DC next year, the US national security adviser John Bolton has confirmed. “We have invited President Putin to Washington,” Bolton said during a visit to Tbilisi, Georgia. It is...

  History repeats itself, observed Karl Marx, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. In the 1950s the “red scare” warned of communists sympathetic to the Soviet Union lurking around every corner of the US....