Republicans in the US Congress have come out strongly against President Obama'splan to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The proposal would transfer some of the detainees overseas and others to prisons in the United States. A Re...
Two Syrian cities have been hit by a wave of bombings which the Islamic State group says it carried out. State media reported that more than 80 people died in blasts in a suburb of Damascus. Activists say about 60 others were killed in Homs. More det...
The President of the European Council says much work remains to be done to achieve a deal to keep Britain in the European Union. Speaking after the first day of a summit in Brussels ended without an agreement, Donald Tusk said talks would continue la...
Hello, I'm Kathy Clugston with the BBC news. The British Prime Minister David Cameron is to brief Parliament on the details of his proposals to renegotiate Britain's membership of the European Union. The European Parliament in Strasburg is also debat...
Hello, I'm Nil Nunes with the BBC News. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is preparing for a day of frantic diplomacy in Brussels, as he tries to win support from the twenty-seven other European leaders to achieve the reforms he wants. The d...
The British actor Alan Rickman has died of cancer at the age of 69. In movies, he won fame for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series and before that in films such as Truly Madly Deeply, Love Actually, Die Hard, Sense and Sensibility an...
I am Joe Macintosh with the BBC news.Hello. President Obama has rejected calls by Republican members of the Senate to leave their nomination of a new supreme court judge to his successor. Mr. Obama said he would name a candidate to replace justice An...
Hello I am AM with the BBC news. Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has cast doubt on whether a ceasefire proposed for later this week can be implemented. The cessation of hostilities was agreed by world powers at a security meeting in Munich last wee...
Hello, I'm Sue Montgomery with the BBC News. Aid agencies have warned that a humanitarian crisis in Syria caused by fighting around the northern city of Aleppo, is turning into an utter catastrophe. Thousands of people are fleeing a Russian-backed go...
The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the 10 billion dollars pledged at a London conference to help victims of the Syrian conflict is no real answer to Syria's troubles. Without a political solution, she said the donors would have to co...
