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Scotland and Wales Begin Planning for UK Breakup If Reform UK Wins Westminster

LONDON, July 4 -- After 319 years of political union, three of the United Kingdom's four nations are now governed by parties whose founding purpose is to end it. The planning for what comes next, once... Read More


Erdogan Enters the Ankara NATO Summit With an Unlikely Advantage: Trump Needs Him

ANKARA, July 4 -- Donald Trump bypassed Congress on June 21 to approve the sale of $700 million in General Electric F110 jet engines to Turkey. It was the kind of decision that ends careers for the of... Read More


Twenty Thousand Germans Blocked Erfurt's Roads to Stop the AfD. The Party Held Its Conference Anyway.

ERFURT, July 4 -- From the motorway bridges outside the city, demonstrators hung from harnesses and abseiled to block the access roads. Behind them, more than 200 buses arrived from across Germany, ca... Read More


Poland's Tusk Says Russia Could Strike NATO Within Months as Summit Tests Alliance's Eastern Flank

WARSAW, July 4 -- Donald Tusk told reporters on Friday that Russia could strike a NATO member within "months rather than years," making public what Polish officials said had been a persistent stream o... Read More


Germany's Merz Fires Back at Trump After 'Ridiculous' NATO Spending Charge

BERLIN, July 4 -- When Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday, the word he reached for was "Ridiculous." His accusation was that the United States was continuing down a "one sided path" while N... Read More


Water Cannons in Tirana: Albania's Kushner Resort Protests Reach Parliament's Steps

TIRANA, July 4 -- For six weeks, the demonstrators who gathered nightly outside Albania's government buildings remained remarkably restrained. They carried banners depicting flamingos. They sang. When... Read More


Three Governments Award £4.6 Billion to Edgewing as GCAP Fighter Jet Enters Design Phase

LONDON, July 4 -- Europe has been talking about building its own next-generation fighter for a decade. On Thursday, three of the governments that have actually been paying for one put £4.6 billio... Read More


Seven Years After Lyra McKee Was Shot Dead in Derry, No One Has Been Convicted

New Delhi, July 3 -- BELFAST - Lyra McKee's family left a courtroom together on Thursday afternoon, and justice was somewhere else. Three men charged with her murder - Paul McIntyre, 58, Peter Cavana... Read More


Interpol Names Ukrainian Woman Who Disguised Herself as a Man in Monaco Bomb Attack on Russia-Linked Tycoon

New Delhi, July 3 -- MONACO - Sitting on a bench at Place des Moulins, she waited. When Vadym Yermolaiev and his family appeared in the doorway of their apartment building, she turned to face them, pr... Read More


Eight Arrested in UK as Global Drug-Rape Network Probe Identifies 270 Suspects in Nine Countries

New Delhi, July 3 -- LONDON - For years, many of the victims did not know they had been raped. They woke disoriented, with gaps in their memories and, in some cases, unexplained injuries. Their partn... Read More