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Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:30
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that Greece is closer to recognising Kosovo’s independence, taking the lead among the five EU member states that do not recognise it, but Athens told EURACTIV that nothing has changed. Greece, Slovakia, Romania, Spain,...
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:27
The participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympics is unacceptable as the Russian and Belarusian governments are jointly responsible for ongoing war crimes against Ukraine, therefore the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should make them play under a neutral...
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:26
The fate of the merger between Lufthansa and Italy’s ITA Airways, based on an agreement signed with the government in May, is now in doubt after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni questioned the European Commission for stalling its go-ahead for the...
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:25
France aims to bring 150,000 new farmers into the profession over the next 10 years to replace the many who will retire during that period while speeding up the sector’s ecological transition, French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau announced on Sunday....
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:23
The Netherlands should negotiate an opt-out in the fields of nature and migration policy in case of a re-opening of the EU treaties, agrarian protest party Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) said in its concept election program published on Friday. After landing...
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:10
US President Joe Biden on Sunday (10 September) secured deals with Vietnam on semiconductors and minerals as the strategic Southeast Asian nation lifted Washington to Hanoi's highest diplomatic status alongside China and Russia.
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:54
The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels will appear at hearings at an international court in Hamburg and seek an advisory opinion on the obligations of countries to combat climate change.
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:43
Russia on Sunday (10 September) wrapped up widely denounced regional and municipal elections, including in regions annexed from Ukraine, delivering strong support for President Vladimir Putin amidst criticism of vote rigging and Kyiv's push to reclaim its land.
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:30
US President Joe Biden said on Sunday (10 September) he held his highest level talks with Chinese leadership in months, adding that Beijing's economic wobbles would not lead it to invade Taiwan.
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:05
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Sunday (10 September) retracted his recent threat to the top international envoy to Bosnia that he would be arrested if he enters the country's Serb entity.
Mon, 09/11/2023 - 04:53
Greek rescue teams recovered the bodies of four more people in central Greece on Sunday (10 September), raising the death toll to 15 from the country's most intense rain storm since records began in 1930.
Sun, 09/10/2023 - 10:15
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Sun, 09/10/2023 - 07:27
Global leaders announced a multinational rail and ports deal linking the Middle East and South Asia on Saturday (9 September) on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi.
Sun, 09/10/2023 - 07:13
Moroccan earthquake survivors huddled for a night in the open on the High Atlas Mountains on 9 September, a day after the country's deadliest quake in more than six decades killed more than 2,000 people and laid waste to villages.
Sun, 09/10/2023 - 06:59
China and Europe should "unite and co-operate" against global uncertainties, Premier Li Qiang told the European Commission chief on the sidelines of the annual G20 summit in New Delhi.
Sat, 09/09/2023 - 17:30
G20 leaders at a summit on Saturday (9 September) adopted a consensus declaration that called for respect of ‘territorial integrity and sovereignty’ in the Ukraine war but avoided condemning Russia for waging it.
Sat, 09/09/2023 - 07:09
A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 600 people and injured hundreds more, destroying buildings and sending residents of major cities rushing from their homes in the country's deadliest tremor since at least 2004.
Sat, 09/09/2023 - 06:57
Belgium officially registered its first-ever September heatwave on Friday (8 September), as temperatures in Brussels topped 25 degrees Celsius (77 Fahrenheit) for a fifth straight day, the country's meteorological agency said.
Sat, 09/09/2023 - 06:42
G20 negotiators were unable to resolve disagreements over the wording of the summit declaration on the war in Ukraine on 8 September, according to a draft seen by Reuters, leaving any possible breakthrough to bloc leaders during the two-day meeting.
Sat, 09/09/2023 - 06:26
Elon Musk said he refused a Ukrainian request to activate his Starlink satellite network in Crimea's port city of Sevastopol last year to aid an attack on Russia's fleet there, saying he feared complicity in a "major" act of war.
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