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NATO defence ministers failed on Friday to reach agreement over new plans on how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack, and one diplomat blamed Turkey for blocking them. ...

The European Commission will propose on Tuesday changes to the European Union’s long-term budget to support Ukraine in coming years and deal with higher debt servicing costs for joint ...

President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed that the Russian leader will visit Turkey “soon”, Interfax cited a Kremlin aide as saying on Friday. The visit ...

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who quit parliament last week over a finding that he misled lawmakers about COVID lockdown parties, was accused on Friday of a new breach ...

President Vladimir Putin on Friday cited positive data points to laud Russia’s economic health and said surging defence spending was needed to boost national security, as Moscow grapples with ...

The deputy ministry of shipping wishes to promote joint initiatives with Greece, Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanoli told the Ambassador of Greece Ioannis Papameletiou, on Friday. According to official announcement, the ...

Rauf Alp Denktash, grandson of former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Raif Denktash, was named Turkey’s Ambassador to Poland on Friday. File photo: Rauf Alp Denktash with his grandfather The ...

Nicosia is expecting London to exert pressures that can pave the way for a resumption of talks on the Cyprus problem, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday after a ...

Swiss rider Gino Mader has died after crashing into a ravine on the descent towards the finish line in Thursday’s stage five of the Tour de Suisse, his team ...

It is “highly likely” that the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine was caused by explosives planted by Russians, a team of legal experts assisting Ukraine’s prosecutors ...

Tesco (TSCO.L), Britain’s biggest retailer, said the country’s food inflation was starting to ease, signalling some relief for squeezed shoppers and the wider economy as the group ...

The Turkish central bank’s net forex reserves rose some $2.5 billion from a historic low to stand at $-3.17 billion as of June 9, data showed on Thursday, as Ankara loosened ...

At least two explosions rocked Kyiv on Friday and air raid sirens blared as African leaders began a peace mission, hoping to mediate between Ukraine and Russia. The African delegation, ...

The Bank of England looks set to raise interest rates by a quarter point to a 15-year high of 4.75 per cent on June 22, its 13th straight rate rise as it ...

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is still open to any contacts to discuss a resolution of the Ukraine conflict, Russian news agencies reported. The comments ...

Ersin Tatar issued a statement on Thursday saying that seeking involvement outside of the UN, towards resolution of the Cyprus problem, is pointless without Turkish Cypriot input. Tatar’s comments ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken flies to Beijing this weekend with expectations low that he will make headway on the long list of disputes between the U.S. ...

As Greece confronts its worst sea disaster in years, questions are mounting about how potentially hundreds of migrants drowned even as their vessel was being shadowed by the Greek coastguard. ...

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks with Egypt about potentially investing in seven historic hotels there, in what could be a landmark deal between the two countries that ...

Saudi Arabia’s inflation rate was 2.8 per cent in May, slightly higher than 2.7 per cent the previous month, driven by housing costs, government data released on Thursday showed. Higher prices ...

International donors pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.13 billion) at an EU-hosted conference in Brussels on Thursday to help Syria where an earthquake in February compounded the plight of a poverty-stricken population caught ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies ...

Russia again told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday it wants an international investigation into explosions last September on the Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany that ...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday left open the prospect that his term may be extended as senior officials from alliance member countries openly endorsed the idea – including one of ...