LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May urged MPs on Monday to back her Brexit deal, promising that it would allow the country to “turn a corner” and let the government focus on solving domestic problems such as housing and a skill shortage. FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at a European

FILE PHOTO: A flag flies behind an enclosure on the territory of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Russia March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB state security service said on Monday it had detained an American citizen suspected of spying in Moscow and had opened a criminal case against him. The

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro told him that it was a matter of “when, not if” he moves his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. Birds fly on a foggy day near the Dome of the Rock, located in

BERLIN (Reuters) – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the new leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats, heads into 2019 more popular than Chancellor Angela Merkel, who supported her rise to the top of their party, an opinion poll showed on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: New CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer talks with former CDU chief and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is not trying to keep Britain in and wants to start discussing future ties the moment the UK parliament approves Brexit, partly to focus on its own unity ahead of May elections, the head of the bloc’s executive said. FILE PHOTO: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attends a news

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court ordered a retrial of a Canadian citizen on drug smuggling charges on Saturday after prosecutors said his sentence of 15 years was too light – a case that could further test relations between Beijing and Ottawa. Flags of Canada and China are placed for the first China-Canada economic and

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday and while both pledged to deepen ties, there was no announcement as some anticipated of Brazil moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez holds a year-end news conference after the weekly cabinet meeting at Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, December 28, 2018. REUTERS/Susana Vera MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez sought on Friday to reassure Britons living in Spain, saying their rights would remain unchanged after Britain’s exit from the European

HIVARGAON/MUJAHIDPUR, India (Reuters) – A spike in the price of onions has led to the ouster of governments in Indian elections in the past. Now, prices of the staple have collapsed, and many impoverished farmers are saying they will make Prime Minister Narendra Modi pay in next year’s general election. A farmer sits on a

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Reuters) – President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of American troops from Syria. U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (C) speaks with Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov (2nd R), Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov (2nd L, back) as he visits the National Defence Control Centre (NDCC) to oversee the test of a

TEL NASRI, Syria (Reuters) – The one family still living in a Christian village devastated by Islamic State is working to revive Christmas traditions that have brought at least a few of its people home for the holiday. Sargon Slio, 51, a farmer, walks in the damaged church of the Virgin Mary at the village

CARITA, Indonesia (Reuters) – It was a solemn Christmas for the congregation in Indonesia’s Carita, a seaside town left reeling from the tsunami that has killed over 400 people and devastated the western coast of Java, as many churchgoers have fled the area for fear of further disasters. Residents affected by the tsunami take part

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium July 11, 2018. Tatyana Zenkovich/Pool via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Turkey in 2019, a White House spokesman said on Monday. “While nothing definite is

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiles during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem December 23, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will hold a general election in April, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Twitter on Monday, after a meeting between members of his governing coalition. “The leaders

RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccan authorities believe four suspects in the killing of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains were acting on their own initiative, even though they had just pledged allegiance to Islamic State, an official said on Sunday. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen wears a Bovec Sports Center t-shirt in this undated photo obtained from