Friday was supposed to be a historic moment — the day the U.K. was supposed to leave Europe. But chaos has engulfed the process and the final exit date has been postponed. The day instead will see a number of mainly pro-Brexit marches and events in London.
"It is not a matter of right or left, Arabs or Jews, secular or religious. It is a matter of dialogue, of dialogue for peace," the actress said.
TOKYO — Thirteen gay couples filed Japan's first lawsuit challenging the country's rejection of same-sex marriage Thursday, arguing the denial violates their constitutional right to equality.
Six couples holding banners saying "Marriage For All Japan" walked into Tokyo District Court to file their cases against the government, with similar cases filed by three couples in Osaka, one couple in Nagoya and three couples in Sapporo.
Plaintiff Kenji Aiba, standing next to his partner Ken Kozumi, told reporters he would "fight this war together with sexual minorities all around Japan."
LONDON — Artists have succeeded in doing what British Prime Minister Theresa May has found impossible over the past two-and-a-half years: spell out the impact Brexit will have on millions of Europeans living in the United Kingdom.
Britain's departure from the bloc March 29 will mean an end to an era of free movement for European nationals, who currently are able to live and work in the U.K. with almost no questions asked, and vice versa.
Uncertainty over what the future holds has not only strained many romantic relationships and marriages — but also inspired art.
At least 20 people were killed when a highway bridge collapsed during a violent storm in Italy's northern city of Genoa on Tuesday.
The plane crashed Tuesday afternoon shortly after it attempted to take off in heavy rain during a storm. None of the 103 people aboard — 99 passengers, 2 pilots and 2 flight attendants —were killed. Authorities said 49 people were hospitalized.
How did everyone aboard the plane survive?
A safety expert says it was "no accident."
Bicycles and backpacks belonging to a Thai soccer team sat outside the entrance of a vast cave complex where the teens remained trapped inside Thursday.
A U.S. military team and British cave experts joined the Thai navy seals to help search for the 12 boys and their soccer coach who entered the Tham Luang Nang Non cave on Saturday.
Relatives of the boys have stayed in tents outside the cave entrance around the clock, despite the rain, waiting for updates. A Buddhist monk led a prayer for them Thursday morning.
Authorities remain hopeful that the team found safety in dry places on higher ground within the cave to wait.
"We won't give up. That's the key here," said deputy national police chief Wirachai Songmetta.
President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin will hold their first dedicated summit in the Finnish capital of Helsinki on July 16, both governments announced Thursday.
The meeting will be their first not on the sidelines of a larger gathering of world leaders.
"The two leaders will discuss relations between the United States and Russia and a range of national security issues," a White House statement said.
The Kremlin said the pair would talk about the "prospects for the development of relations between the two countries and current international issues," Russia's state news agency Tass reported.
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was widely reported to have been assassinated in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday, turned up at a news conference alive and well on Wednesday.
"I want to apologize to my wife for the hell that she has been through," said Babchenko, who faked his death to help authorities catch his would-be killers.
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Chris Anderson, a champion cheese chaser, has broken the career record Monday for winning the most wheels of cheese.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad.
There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a "terrorist" blast.
Gadhafi's demise: Moammar Gadhafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42-years of one-man rule "rats," but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth.
"He called us rats, but look where we found him," said Ahmed Al Sahati, a 27-year-old government fighter, standing next to two stinking drainage pipes under a six-lane highway.
Government fighters, video evidence and the scenes of sheer carnage nearby told the story of the dictator's final hours.
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