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US President Joe Biden arrives in Belfast on Tuesday (11 April) at a delicate political time in Northern Ireland as he helps mark the 25-year anniversary of a peace deal that largely ended 30 years of bloodshed there.

China ended three days of military drills around Taiwan on Monday (10 April) saying they had tested integrated military capabilities under actual combat conditions, having practised precision strikes and blockading the island that Beijing views as its own.

The president of Moldova called on her compatriots on Monday (10 April) to gather at a mass outdoor assembly next month to endorse her drive for closer integration with Europe.

Companies are increasingly recognising the value of reporting on water-related topics, but many of them are still refusing transparency efforts, writes Mirjam Wolfrum.

A vessel with around 400 people on board is adrift between Greece and Malta and is taking on water, support service Alarm Phone said on 9 April, after a sharp rise of migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.

Classified documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine's air defenses to Israel's Mossad spy agency, have US officials scrambling to identify the leak's source, with some experts saying it could be an American.

Switzerland has matched the 10 rounds of ever-tightening sanctions imposed by the European Union since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday (9 April) in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as the Black Sea nation's government faces mounting accusations of backsliding on democracy.

The EU's revised Renewable Energy Directive strengthens the sustainability criteria for biomass heat and power, but the compromise text means it might only lead to limited improvements in the short term, argue Gemma Toop and Michèle Koper.

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has long been a bogeyman for the far right, but Donald Trump's indictment has unleashed a fresh torrent of hate that has also entangled US fact-checkers debunking conspiracies about him.

Russia's forces kept up a barrage of attacks along the front concentrated in two Ukrainian cities in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine's military reported, as Kyiv said it repelled more than 40 enemy strikes over the past 24 hours.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about a citizen's initiative to close down a Russian consulate on the island of Aland, the death rate in Italy surpassing the birth date, and so much more.

Poland will deliver more MiG-29 fighter jets, self-propelled mortars, additional missiles, and 200 Polish-produced Rosomak infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), of which half will be delivered soon, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Poland was the first European country to send...

Spain’s central government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) should not “lower the flag of dialogue” with Catalonia, the region´s president, Pere Aragonès, stressed in an exclusive interview with EFE. According to the president of the Catalan executive, Sánchez...

With only a month to go until the Turkish election, officials released the list of candidates: incumbent right-wing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will face three opponents in the first round on 14 May. The primary opponent is 74-year-old Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu of...

A citizen’s initiative demanding the closure of the Russian consulate in Mariehamn, the capital of the Autonomous and demilitarised region of Åland that was launched at the start of last week has already gathered more than 16,120 signatures of the...

“I'm never going to confess to crimes I haven't committed even if they tear me to pieces,” Kaili told Ant1 TV channel.

The UK will host an Investment Summit for Northern Ireland in September as part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ambition to bring more inward investment into Northern Ireland’s ‘thriving economy’. The Summit will connect international investors with businesses in Northern...

Measures are needed to tackle Austria’s rampant child poverty problem, where more than 20% of youth are at risk, according to the social democrat SPÖ which has already received backing from the liberal NEOS. In Austria, some 370,000 children and...

Two bodies have been found and six people remain unaccounted for at the time of writing after a building collapsed in Marseille early on Sunday following an explosion likely caused by a gas leak. As it fell, the building destabilised...