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May said she was "pleased to have received the backing of my colleagues" but acknowledged that "a significant number" had voted against her in Wednesday evening's secret ballot.

A ballot will be held on Wednesday in the House of Commons and an announcement made as soon as possible afterwards.

Paramedics told media the man fired a revolver and a .38-caliber pistol inside the cathedral, also wounding several people before killing himself.

May had breakfast with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague before heading to Berlin for lunch with Chancellor Angela Merkel, and was then to travel on to Brussels.

Sri Lanka has been trapped in a bitter power feud since Maithripala Sirisena replaced PM Ranil Wickremesinghe with Mahinda Rajapakse, a controversial former strongman leader.

The 26-year-old was using the Twitch video platform to broadcast himself playing the popular shoot-'em-up survival game.

There were reports that Kelly's relationship with the volatile Trump had deteriorated to such an extent they were no longer on speaking terms.

"I have zero question in my mind that the crown prince directed the murder and was kept appraised of the situation all the way through it," Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker told reporters after CIA director Gina Haspel briefed a smal...

The Court of Appeal in an interim order Monday temporary halted Rajapaksa and his Cabinet from functioning in their positions in response to a case filed by 122 legislators against his disputed government.

The lawsuit says Abdulaziz received and clicked on a link sent to his phone in June 2018 that he argues exposed his mobile communications to Saudi authorities.

Trump told Imran Khan the Pakistan relationship was very important to the US and to finding a solution to the Afghanistan conflict, Fawad Chaudhry said.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday condemned what he called Iran's testing of a medium-range ballistic missile in violation of the 2015 international agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme, from which Washington has withdrawn.

North Korea was angered by USA's refusal to ease sanctions and had warned it could resume development of its nuclear program if the United States did not drop its campaign.

Theresa May sealed a deal with EU leaders that would see Britain leave the bloc on March 29 with continued close ties.

Iraq's Mosul spent three years under the iron-fisted rule of the Islamic State group, which punished those caught drinking alcohol with public lashings or worse.

The two men famously declared an end to the Cold War at the Malta Summit in December, 1989, weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with Bush declaring support for Gorbachev's "perestroika" reforms.