RIYADH — The opening day of the International MICE Summit (IMS24) witnessed the signing of 19 agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) that are aimed to reshape the future of the global exhibitions and conventions sector, and make the (...)
Romania and Bulgaria's shared journey to join the passport-free Schengen Area came to an end on Thursday morning as interior ministers from the European Union gave their final blessing to their hard-fought candidacy.
The momentous decision was made (...)
Israel carried out part of its device attack targeting Hezbollah by concealing explosives inside the batteries of pagers brought into Lebanon, according to two high-ranking Lebanese security officials, who said the technology was so advanced that it (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan held separate talks with President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides in New York on Wednesday. The meetings were held on the sidelines of the (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged new measures to prevent irregular migration but has ruled out suspending asylum rights, despite opposition parties' calls for a major overhaul of migration policy.
"The individual right to asylum will remain (...)
Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico's first woman president in a historic landslide win.
Mexico's official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the (...)
While North Macedonia marked a historic milestone on Wednesday by electing its first female president, the ruling center-left suffered an unprecedented loss in both presidential and parliamentary polls.
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, a 70-year-old law (...)
Almost two-thirds of EU citizens say they are "likely" to vote in the upcoming elections to the European Parliament.
The findings stem from the latest edition of the Eurobarometer, the parliament's official survey, which collected the opinions of (...)
European Union countries willing to recognize the State of Palestine should move in tandem in order to "trigger significant progress" in building peace in the war-torn region, European Council President Charles Michel has said.
Speaking to (...)
Europeans give a thumbs down to the European Union's efforts to control irregular migration and demand stronger border controls.
This is one of the eye-catching takeaways from an exclusive Euronews poll conducted by Ipsos among almost 26,000 (...)
The European Commission has proposed a steep increase in tariffs on Russian grain that comes into the bloc's common market.
The measure would apply to cereals, oilseeds and derived products, like vegetable oil, that originate in Russia and are bound (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman d has sent a cable of congratulations to Republic of Bulgaria President Rumen Radev on his country's National Day.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished Radev continued good health and happiness, and (...)
The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement.
The Rubymar was in the Gulf of Aden and nearing the Bab al-Mandab Strait when it was struck, (...)
RIYADH — Newly appointed Saudi ambassadors, including Princess Haifa Bint Abdulaziz Al Muqrin as the Ambassador to Spain, took their oaths before Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday.
Princess Haifa, along with other (...)
How do we bridge the digital divide? The chairman of the frontrunner to acquire Orange-MásMóvil merger remediesexplains how, and why his market is drawing in GCC investors
Amid untrammelled commercial activity in pursuit of Vision 2030, telecoms (...)
Austria is still firmly opposed to the long-coveted Schengen accession of Romania and Bulgaria, arguing the passport-free area needs to become "better" before becoming "bigger."
The unambiguous resistance has been well documented over the past few (...)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to travel to North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO member country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.
Russia is one of the 57 members of (...)
Some 1,100 people have been killed in Israel and Gaza as Israel's military battled to drive Hamas fighters out of southern towns and seal its borders Monday following a large-scale assault by the militant group that began early Saturday.
Fears of a (...)
The Northern Hemisphere may be transitioning into fall, but there has been no let up from extreme heat. New data shows last month was the hottest September – the fourth consecutive month of such unprecedented heat – putting 2023 firmly on track to (...)
Russia is seeking to rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council in an election that will be seen as a key test of its international standing.
It was expelled from the UN's pre-eminent human rights body last April after its forces invaded (...)
One of Ukraine's staunchest allies, Poland, has said it is no longer supplying weapons to its neighbor, as a diplomatic dispute over grain escalates.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland's focus was instead on defending itself with more (...)
Ukraine has filed lawsuits to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Slovakia, Poland and Hungary over their bans on food imports from Kyiv.
It said such restrictions were a violation of international obligations by Ukraine's EU neighbors.
They (...)
Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia will defy the European Union and extend a temporary ban placed on Ukrainian grain imports, in a move likely to anger the bloc's leadership.
On Friday, the EU announced plans to suspend a temporary ban placed on the (...)
Members of the European Parliament are split over the temporary bans that the European Union has imposed on Ukrainian grain.
The prohibitions have been in place since 2 May and apply to five members of the European Union located in Ukraine's (...)
Nightly Russian drone attacks on Ukraine's River Danube ports are threatening to choke off one of Kyiv's vital economic lifelines
Attacks which began over a month ago have intensified in recent days.
Each morning brings news of fresh explosions at (...)
