The candidates in this Sunday’s French presidential election, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, are alike in one way: Both stand outside the mainstream parties, promising an end to politics as usual. That’s something France’s voters appear to want. Beyond that, however, the differences are stark, and you could sum them up like this: Macron is a safe choice, …

  US President Donald Trump met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for the first time in the White House on Wednesday. Trump is confident he could broker a Middle East peace deal as he told Abbas that the agreement between Israel and Palestine is “maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years.” “Throughout my life I have …

  Bloomberg Glasgow, the Tees Valley, Northumberland — these are places that haven’t voted Conservative in decades, if ever. If the scale of Theresa May’s victory in Britain’s local elections was startling, so too was its geography. In one fell swoop the prime minister has claimed entire swathes of Labour’s traditional vote in working class areas of the Midlands and …