The Labour leader’s proposed reforms are part of his long battle against Margaret Thatcher and her legacy. Young people are eating it up—but is that enough? Imagine living in a country where you only have to work four days a week, where higher education is free and so is child care for …
PARIS (AP) — Large swathes of France’s workforce, spanning generations, will go on strike Thursday to protest the government’s planned overhaul of the pension system. Gathering in Paris, they want to vent their anger at the reform proposals that President Emmanuel Macron thinks are necessary to make the pension system …
The Fosse Dionne is a mysterious spring at the heart of Tonnerre in France, with an unusually high flow of water. Since medieval times, myths and legends have evolved around the source of this spring, and divers who have tried to uncover its origins have lost their lives. Now a …
Turkey is laying claim to oil exploration in the eastern Mediterranean, and Greece objects. Athens, Greece – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to hold a tense meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in London on Wednesday, following Ankara’s announcement that it had reached an agreement …
NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazes out the window of his high-rise Manhattan office at one of the great symbols of the church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “I …
The country now generates more of its electricity from renewables THOMAS EDISON may be best remembered for his incandescent light bulb, but the American inventor also opened the world’s first coal-fired generator, the Edison Electric Light Station, in London in 1882. Though the project was short-lived—the plant was shut less …
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – In a highly unusual move, the Vatican has postponed the beatification of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of U.S. Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and pioneer in religious media. Sheen, who died in 1979 and was sometimes called the first “televangelist,” was …
LONDON (Reuters) – An American woman who says she was forced to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew has appealed to Britons to take her side, saying that only she was telling the truth about a scandal that has engulfed the royal family. Virginia Giuffre says she was trafficked by …
The progressive bloc set to rule Europe’s fifth-largest economy has endorsed a Green New Deal but risks fueling a resurgent fascist movement. At the start of this year, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez became the first major world leader to endorse the idea of a “Green New Deal,” adopting the …
PADUA (Reuters) – Venetians gave the cold shoulder to the fifth vote in 40 years to break away from sister city Mestre on the Italian mainland, with little expectation of a parting of the ways. By 1800 GMT only 18.6% of 206,553 potential voters had showed up at the polls, …
More than 10,000 people were evacuated from central Turin on Sunday as experts worked to defuse a World War Two bomb. Residents of the Italian city were told to vacate a “red zone” in the historic district. A further 50,000 living further away were told either to leave their homes …
After a public-relations debacle stirred questions about the role of Queen Elizabeth II, the Prince of Wales is asserting a newfound authority in British royal affairs. LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II welcomes President Trump and other world leaders to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of NATO, …
