
Iraq’s supreme court on Thursday ordered a manual recount of last month’s legislative elections. The court found that the decision by parliament to order a manual recount in response to allegations of electoral fraud did not violate the constitution, its president Medhat al-Mahmud told a news conference. All of the ...

Uncertainty over US President Donald Trump’s commitment to the NATO alliance requires European nations to bolster efforts to forge a common defence policy, France’s defence minister said Thursday. “At the NATO summit a year ago, he did not explicitly support the idea in place since the North Atlantic Treaty that ...