Political News, Analysis and Opinion

By Elizabeth Howcroft and Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) – Culture minister Nicky Morgan hinted on Wednesday that the annual BBC licence fee on Britain’s television-watching households could be scrapped after … Read More

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Netflix Inc will storm into Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony boasting more nominations than any other movie distributor, but can the streaming service finally … Read More

By Joseph Sipalan KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The corruption trial of Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak, began on Wednesday, with a prosecutor describing how … Read More

By Ju-min Park and David Dolan TOKYO (Reuters) – Around 3,700 people are facing at least two weeks locked away on a cruise liner anchored off Japan after health officials … Read More

By Alexander Cornwell DOHA (Reuters) – The shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran has given new urgency to efforts to develop a shared conflict alert system for airlines, … Read More

By Sumeet Chatterjee and Lawrence White HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) – HSBC <HSBA.L> is set to unveil a new round of job cuts targeting senior international managers and reduce its presence … Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Josep Borrell, the new EU foreign policy chief, will hold talks in Washington on Thursday and Friday with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House … Read More

By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape trial were shown naked photographs of the former Hollywood producer on Tuesday over his lawyers’ objections. … Read More

By Alexander Cornwell DOHA (Reuters) – An American university’s partner in Qatar has rejected the university’s explanation for cancelling an event in Doha that would have featured a prominent Middle … Read More

By Orhan Coskun, Tuvan Gumrukcu and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber ANKARA/MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey and Russia should resolve differences over the conflict in Syria’s Idlib without … Read More