Europe
Anti-Semitism charges leveled at Labour Party’s Corbyn
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s election campaign was hit Thursday by renewed claims that he is not fit to lead the country because of his tolerance of anti-Semitic attitudes.
French leader laments NATO’s ‘brain death’ due to US absence
French President Emmanuel Macron claimed that a lack of U.S. leadership is causing the “brain death” of the NATO military alliance, insisting in an interview published Thursday that the European Union must step up and start acting as a strategic world power.
Pompeo meets US troops, German leaders to start 2-day visit
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with American troops in southern Germany on Thursday, starting a trip based around the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in an area where he served as an Army officer during the Cold War.
UK police ID all 39 Vietnamese victims found in truck
UK police say they have formally identified the 39 people found dead in a container truck in southeastern England and notified their families in the apparent people-smuggling tragedy.
Russia re-enacts legendary World War II parade in Moscow
Russian troops clad in World War II-era uniforms marched Thursday across Moscow’s Red Square in a reconstruction of a legendary wartime parade.
German Commerzbank reports higher profit in Q3
Thanks to higher revenues and reduced costs, Commerzbank's operating profit jumped nearly 30 percent year on year to 448 million euros (496 million U.S. dollars), and its net profit soared 35 percent to 294 million euros in the third quarter (Q3) of fiscal 2019, Germany's second largest bank announced on Thursday.
EU cuts economic growth forecast for 2019, 2020
The European Commission said on Thursday that euro area gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to expand by 1.1 percent in 2019 and by 1.2 percent in 2020 and 2021.
Police evacuate migrant camps in Paris as France tightens approaches on immigration
French police cleared out two illegal migrant camps in northern Paris early Thursday morning, a day after President Emmanuel Macron's government unveiled tough measures to handle the migrant influx.
New Zealand passes law aimed at combating climate change
New Zealand lawmakers on Thursday joined forces across the aisle to pass a bill aimed at combating climate change.
International court sentences Congo warlord to 30 years
The International Criminal Court sentenced a Congolese warlord known as "The Terminator" to 30 years imprisonment Thursday after he was convicted of crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery.