Israel's attacks on UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are "completely unacceptable," Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy, has said, echoing the strong condemnation voiced across the bloc in reaction to the latest developments (...)
Voters in most EU countries began casting their ballots Sunday to elect their representatives in the European Parliament (EP) for a five-year term.
On the final stretch of four days of voting that began this week, EU voters in Austria, Belgium, (...)
BRUSSELS — Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan called for the lifting of the seizure of Palestinian funds and refraining from any measures that hinder the work of the Palestinian government.
While reiterating Saudi Arabia's support (...)
Israeli singer Eden Golan has qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest after a public vote.
Her victory came hours after thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors gathered in the streets of Malmö, Sweden, where the contest is being held, (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not "ruled out" in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia's full-scale invasion grinds into a (...)
Donald Trump's suggestion the US would not protect NATO allies failing to spend enough on defense "undermines all of our security", the Western military alliance's chief has said.
Jens Stoltenberg also suggested it put US and European troops at (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in Riyadh Tuesday, approved the regulation of the Supreme Space Council.
The Supreme Space Council, headed by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman, was established (...)
Ukraine's parliament has refused to consider a conscription bill that proposes a crackdown on draft dodgers.
MPs have criticized certain punishment measures included in the bill as unconstitutional.
Some have also suggested reducing the length of (...)
Two Russian missiles have struck a hotel in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, injuring 11 people, the Kharkiv governor says.
Photos from Ukraine's State Emergency Service showed the hotel heavily damaged and firefighters at the scene.
Governor (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made an unannounced visit to Lithuania, a key ally of Kyiv as it battles Russia's invasion.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said in a statement he was welcoming Zelensky to his country, where the two (...)
Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia.
Meanwhile, strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe caused flooding and at least one (...)
Some of the world's richest countries experienced sharp rises in child poverty between 2014 and 2021, according to new data published by UNICEF.
The Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth report card showed shocking results, with some of the richest (...)
A judge in Madrid has opened an investigation into two agents of Spain's National Intelligence Centre for allegedly passing secret information to the United States, the country's defence minister said on Monday.
They were arrested last September and (...)
Ten northern European states that form the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) decided on Tuesday to activate a "defence clause" enabling the deployment of additional military assets to protect infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
The move comes after (...)
BARCELONA — Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan discussed developments in Gaza and its surrounding during meetings with his counterparts from Latvia, Cyprus, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Ireland on the sidelines of the (...)
RIGA — Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Finland Nisreen Al-Shibel has presented her credentials as non-resident ambassador to Latvia to the Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs.
During the meeting, which took place at the Presidential Palace in the (...)
Lithuania has closed two of its six border crossings into Belarus, as Latvia and Poland bolster their borders with Russia's ally.
There has been tension in the Baltic states and Poland over the presence of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus.
Landlocked (...)
Latvia's center-right prime minister, Krišjānis Kariņš, has announced that he will step down later this week after the two other members of his three-party governing coalition rejected a Cabinet reshuffle.
The prime minister, who belongs to the (...)
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have agreed to speed up their integration into the European Union's electricity system in order to desynchronize from the Russian power grid.
The three Baltic countries, which are EU and NATO members, still remain a (...)
Russia's Wagner mercenary group could stage an attack to sever the Baltic states from NATO, an expert has said, though he doubted if such a "suicidal" step would be taken.
Dr Stephen Hall, lecturer of Russian politics at the University of Bath, (...)
Wagner fighters in Belarus could pose as migrants and enter the EU, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has warned.
Wagner could also facilitate illegal migration from Belarus, which Poland describes as "hybrid warfare", he says.
About 100 (...)
The leader of Russia's 24-hour mutiny, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has arrived in Belarus, three days after his Wagner mercenary group's mutiny came to an end 200km (125 miles) south of Moscow.
"Yes, indeed, he's in Belarus today," leader Alexander (...)
Ireland's government insists it will not join NATO and has no plans to abandon the country's long-held policy on military neutrality amid a row over a government-sponsored forum on international security.
The forum, which begins on Thursday and will (...)
NATO on Monday launched the largest military air exercise in its 74-year history with more than 250 aircraft and 10,000 participants from 25 nations.
The series of aerial maneuvers being coordinated by Germany is intended to show the strength and (...)
The German-led multinational exercise Air Defender 23, the largest air force deployment in NATO's history from June 12-23, kicks off with the goal of exercising air operations with allied and partner air forces. The focus is on optimizing and (...)
