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The United Kingdom leaves the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future, the most significant change to its place in the world since the loss of empire and a blow to 70 years of efforts to forge European unity from the ruins of war. The country will slip …

The United States on Friday declared a public health emergency and announced significant entry restrictions because of a new virus that hit China and has spread to other nations. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who is co-ordinating the federal response, announced that U.S. President Donald Trump has signed …

It can be annoying to run out of smartphone battery power — and even more irritating to find someone with a charging cable in the nick of time, only to discover it’s not compatible with your device. A solution may be coming from an unlikely source: the European Union. EU …

The Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-year push to further restrict immigration. Officials said immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania will face new restrictions in obtaining …

Harvey Weinstein offered an unscripted defence Thursday of his use of private undercover investigators who allegedly tried to silence his accusers, saying he did it “for days like this.” The remark came as the former Hollywood producer left his New York City rape trial when a reporter asked him why …

As if the impeachment trial taking place south of the border weren’t alienating enough, with its arcane protocols, dense arguments and predictable partisanship, there is now a legal battle raging outside the Senate chamber that has the country’s leading constitutional experts taking to Twitter and the op-ed pages. High-profile defence …

At a gas station on a highway between Belfast and Dublin, Gerry Campbell was fuelling up his truck and spilling his thoughts on the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. “They’ll put the spanner in the works,” said the trucker who believes politics and politicians are getting in the way …

Bernie, Mayor Pete, Biden — it doesn’t matter who wins the Iowa Democratic caucuses because not one of them stands a chance against Donald Trump. At least that was the general attitude among many Trump supporters who filled the rafters of Drake University in Des Moines Thursday night, just days …

The European Parliament gave final approval to Britain’s divorce from the European Union on Wednesday, paving the way for the country to quit the bloc on Friday after nearly half a century and delivering a major setback for European integration. After an emotional debate during which several speakers shed tears, …

All eyes have been on the U.S. Senate these past two weeks for the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump. One hundred U.S. senators have been glued to their seats inside the carpeted, two-storey Senate chamber in the north wing of the Capitol building for long days stretching more …