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Belgium's death toll from coronavirus infections, one of the highest per capita in the world, has breached the 20,000 mark, according to official data published on Sunday (10 January).

Kazakhstan’s ruling party Nur Otan looks set to sweep the parliamentary election held on Sunday (10 January), according to preliminary results, which show only two other parties passing the threshold to be represented in the next Mazhlis, the lower house of parliament.

Respect for the EU charter of fundamental rights could be used to withhold EU money going to projects that trample over democracy or discriminate against gay and lesbian people, an EU official has said.

Conservative German MP Stefan Kaufmann (CDU) congratulated the controversial Day of Republika Srpska (RS), which Bosnian Serbs celebrate on 9 January as the day the Bosnian Serb republic was declared in 1992, though BiH’s Constitutional Court has since declared it...

Kosovo will hold snap parliamentary elections on 14 February after the Constitutional Court ruled last month that the parliamentary confirmation of its government in June 2019 was illegal, announced acting Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani. The government, led by the Democratic...

BiH’s army and Red Cross personnel are trying to find accommodation for several hundreds of illegal migrants who have been freezing for days out in a snow-covered field, while 200 of those who have been waiting for over two weeks...

Serbia condemns the violence on the US Capitol in Washington, saying it favoured a peaceful transition of power to the newly-elected US President Joe Biden, Serbian speaker Ivica Dačić told Pink TV in an interview on Friday. Serbia wanted the...

Slovenian news agency STA’s management and staff have described the government’s failure to transfer overdue public service payments as required by the latest economic stimulus act as a defeat of the rule of law, convinced that the decision to seek...

While Croatia felt another strong earthquake on Sunday, independent MP of the parliamentary faction of the right-wing Most Party, Maria Selak Raspudić said “whatever you think about Trump’s presidency and his indirect connection with the attacks on the US Congress,...

The vaccination order in the Bulgarian town of Sandanski has undoubtedly been violated, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov announced on Sunday, after it became clear – following the audit of the town of Sandanski – that 20 people from the town...

Former police chief Milan Lučanský – who was charged with serious crimes including taking bribes in a police action called “Judas” in early December – attempted suicide while in pre-trial detention on 29 December and died in hospital one day...

“That conflict, that battle between a more democratic inclusive vision, and one that’s top-down, dominant- subordinate, that’s a contest that’s taking place here in the United States, and around the world,” former US President Barack Obama told show host Trevor...

The Czech Republic should receive the first 20,000 doses of Moderna vaccines on Monday, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told the Czech Television without any further details. The European Medical Agency (EMA) and the European Commission approved the Moderna vaccine on...

Protestors may first have to pay a fine before having their day in court, the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) proposed on Friday following the mass protests related to the Women’s strike. While many lawyers such as Polish Ombudsman Adam...

While the UK splinters away from the European Union, Africa is uniting under a landmark free trade agreement, making it one of the largest since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), writes Debisi Araba.

The UK’s more restrictive new migration policy “will be a problem”, which will have to be monitored by the Portuguese EU Council Presidency, said Portugal’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva on Friday. “The new UK migration policy will be a...

Following former Italian Prime Minister and Italy Alive party leader Matteo Renzi’s threat to have the current ministers of his party resign from the current government, a cabinet reshuffle appears likely. Renzi sent a letter to the government on 6...

The Swedish parliament has approved a law giving the government the right to apply tougher measures in the fight against the current pandemic. The law, which came into force on Sunday, allows the government to limit opening hours and visitor...

The UK leaving the EU has left defence and security issues wide open, as bilateral and joint agreements with the UK may be in danger of turning into dead letters. While questions have been raised about the future of the...

An outbreak of the recently discovered South African variant of COVID-19 has been contained after a recent scare, health officials in Ireland have said. Despite this, a COVID-19 mutation first identified in the UK has health authorities concerned. Ireland is...