Government News
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Alabama officials say they're forming a task force to address concerns about private information about victims and others being posted to a state website for court records
April 27, 2017 -
Israel says it was informed that the Palestinian self-rule government in the West Bank will stop paying for electricity Israel sells to the Gaza Strip
April 27, 2017 -
The Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights organization, is debating new Hungarian laws which critics say seek to limit academic rights and intimidate civic groups
April 27, 2017 -
Twenty-five people were detained in Turkey and more than 200 police officers temporarily suspended from their jobs Thursday for suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, following a massive sweep the day before
April 27, 2017 -
Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany is closely watching to see how Turkey will respond to reports from international election monitors who noted a series of irregularities in a referendum to increase powers for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
April 27, 2017 -
Turkey is protesting the Czech Parliament's vote that recognizes the killing of Armenians a century ago as genocide
April 27, 2017 -
A man suspected of links to radical Islam shot two police officers on the French island of Reunion in an incident under investigation by national counterterrorism prosecutors
April 27, 2017 -
Leading European officials hope the deadlock preventing Greece from getting much-needed bailout cash will be broken next month
April 27, 2017 -
Testimony is to continue in the fraud trial of Corrine Brown after prosecutors told jurors the former congresswoman from Florida financed a lavish lifestyle of Beverly Hills shopping trips and fancy parties using donations made to a charity
April 27, 2017 -
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Britain must answer questions about its plans to exit the European Union before negotiations on the split can begin
April 27, 2017 -
President Donald Trump's call to review 24 national monuments established by three former presidents puts in limbo protections on large swaths of land home to ancient cliff dwellings, towering Sequoias and deep canyons as well as oceans habitat
April 27, 2017 -
Germany's Merkel: Britain must engage in 'constructive dialogue' with the EU about Brexit before negotiations can start
April 27, 2017 -
Pope Francis is facing a religious and diplomatic balancing act as he heads to Egypt this weekend, hoping to comfort its tiny Christian community after a spate of Islamic attacks while seeking to improve relations with Egypt's Muslim leaders
April 27, 2017 -
French court refuses to extradite former Kosovo prime minister to Serbia to face war crimes charges
April 27, 2017 -
The Pentagon is getting greater flexibility to determine the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria
April 27, 2017