Britain

The English town of Reading mourned Monday for three people stabbed to death in what is being treated as a terror attack, gathering for a moment of silence as police questioned the suspected lone attacker.

Police say a stabbing rampage in Britain that killed three people as they sat in a park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist attack but officials said the motive was unclear. A 25-year-old man believed to be the lone attacker is in custody.

British police say a German man has been identified as a suspect in the case of a 3-year-old British girl who disappeared 13 years ago while on a family holiday in Portugal.

The lockdown that served as a model for countries battling the coronavirus around the world is set to end after 11 weeks: Chinese authorities are moving to allow residents of Wuhan to once again travel in and out of the sprawling city where the pandemic began.

The European Union is looking at major changes in the way it operates

Britain, France and Germany say they are triggering a dispute mechanism that is part of the nuclear deal with Iran over its failure to live up to terms of the pact.

Who in the White House budget office called Rudy Giuliani on an August afternoon, and what did they have to talk about for 13 minutes? House impeachment investigators were unable to answer either question in their report released Tuesday by Democrats on the Intelligence Committee. But the call — and more than a dozen others and texts between President Donald…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday wholly misrepresented the U.S. record on international trade disputes and dismissed as a mysterious “rumor” his own statement from months ago about Britain’s health system. Here’s a look at some of his statements from London, where’s he is attending a NATO meeting: TRUMP: “We won, in the World Trade Organization, we won seven and...

The simmering showdown between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Britain’s Parliament over Brexit came to a head as lawmakers delivered three defeats to the government’s plans for leaving the European Union, before being sent home early Tuesday for a contentious five-week suspension of the legislature. In a session that ran well past midnight, Parliament enacted a law to block a...

British conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, was criticized for stretching out across a bench as lawmakers discussed a vote allowing them to take control and introduce a bill that would seek to prevent a “no deal” Brexit.

Boris Johnson, Britain’s blustering Brexit campaigner, was chosen as the U.K.’s next prime minister on Tuesday, with a resounding mandate from the Conservative Party but conflicting demands from a politically divided country. Johnson is set to become prime minister on Wednesday after winning an election to lead the governing Conservatives. He will have just over three months to make good...

The United States has rejected an appeal from Britain, France and Germany to grant broad exemptions to European firms doing business in Iran, saying it would press ahead with sanctions intended to exert “unprecedented” economic pressure on the Tehran regime, U.S. and Western officials told NBC News. Replying to a June 4 letter from the European powers, Secretary of State...

The birth of the third child of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge prompted celebrations across the country.

It’s a boy! Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, safely delivered a baby boy Monday morning. He’ll be fifth in line to the British throne, behind his grandfather, father and two older siblings.

Britain must answer questions about its plans to exit the European Union before negotiations on the split can begin, and can’t be under any illusions that it will retain the same rights and privileges as a member of the bloc, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday. Speaking to German lawmakers ahead of a weekend summit in Brussels to discuss the so-called...

Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are on a five day tour of Italy that will bring them a private audience with Pope Francis and a meeting with the Italian prime minister. The British royal couple is on a longer tour of Europe.