Britain's opposition Labour party will back a new customs union with the EU, its Brexit policy chief said - a move that would facilitate trade with the bloc but limit Britain's ability to strike deals with other countries.

Pope Francis yesterday said Syria was being "martyred" by continued attacks killing civilians in the eastern Ghouta district, calling for an immediate end to violence and access to humanitarian aid.

EU President Donald Tusk on Friday dismissed plans for post-Brexit relations with London, reportedly devised by the British

Turkey summoned the Dutch charge d'affaires yesterday to complain about the Netherlands parliament recognising the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as genocide. The parliamentary motion, which the Dutch government said would not become official policy, risks further worsening ties between the countries.

Prime Minister Theresa May will make a keynote speech next Friday on Britain's relationship with the EU after Brexit following a "very positive" meeting of her senior ministers, her spokesman said. The full cabinet will discuss the plans at their regular weekly meeting on Tuesday.

Moscow said yesterday it would be "very difficult" to improve US-Russia relations, which have plummeted to Cold War lows on

Turkey warned yesterday that pro-Damascus forces would face "serious consequences" for entering Syria's Afrin region to help

Special counsel Robert Mueller is probing Jared Kushner's efforts to get foreign investors beyond Russia to provide financing for his

A British academic who blackmailed victims into sending him increasingly depraved images which he shared on dark web forums is jailed for 32 years after admitting 137 offences which included encouraging the rape of a four-year-old boy.

A new anti-Brexit centrist political party held its official launch in London yesterday, one of several initiatives by pro-European Union

Russia is investigating whether the gunman behind a deadly attack on an Orthodox church in the North Caucasus had extremist ties, the

British aid charity Oxfam yesterday released its internal report into a scandal in Haiti that has shattered its reputation, revealing that a

Russia's government yesterday insisted there was no evidence that it meddled in the US elections, after Washington indicted 13

A conservative Australian politician who posted a photo of himself on Facebook holding a gun in a jibe at environmentalists was

The West is stoking tensions in the Balkans despite Russia's pacific stance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as

Thirteen people were killed in southern Mexico when a minister's helicopter crash-landed on its way to the epicenter of a powerful

Poland yesterday sought to defend remarks by its prime minister which Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu called "outrageous" and

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday pleaded for an urgent deal with the European Union on post-Brexit security cooperation,

Turkey never used chemical weapons in its operations in Syria, and takes the utmost care of civilians, a Turkish diplomatic source said,

British charity Oxfam yesterday unveiled an action plan to tackle sexual misconduct following the "stain" of a prostitution scandal but the