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Spain's caretaker Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, narrowly won on Tuesday a second investiture vote by a simple majority of 167 to 165 votes with 18...

The January 7 White House meeting between US President Donald J Trump and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis did not yield any new US...

Following the killing of Iranian Quds Force leader , US oil giant Chevron said on 6 January the company removed its expatriate staff operating...

The Austrian Foreign Ministry said it was facing a "serious cyber-attack" and that another "state actor" could be responsible. The hack, which started on Saturday...

ATHENS - Several hours before the leaders of Greece, Israel and Cyprus signed an intergovernmental agreement to construct the EU-backed gas pipeline, Energean and...

ATHENS – An agreement between Greece, Israel and Cyprus to build an undersea pipeline to carry gas from new offshore deposits in the southeastern...

The new Austrian government will not support the trade deal between the EU and South American nations. The EU and the South American trade bloc...

Croatia's center-left former PM Zoran Milanovic has won 52.7% of the vote in Croatia's presidential runoff, defeating the center-right incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who won...

China’s ruling Communist Party replaced Wang Zhimin, the country’s official in charge of relations with Hong Kong. China’s ministry of human resources and social security...

Venezuela’s US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó and rival Luis Parra both declared themselves speaker of the national assembly on 5 January. Guaidó was aiming to...

More than 200 wildfires have ravaged Australia, with the hot and dry weather making it easy for the blazes to start and spread. The number...

Three Americans were killed in an attack on a Kenyan US military base by extremists of the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group, Al-Shabaab. According to the...

Iran will no longer abide by any of the limits of its 2015 nuclear deal, its state television has announced on 5 January. The move...

ATHENS – Israel and Cyprus have enough gas to fill the proposed EastMed natural gas pipeline from the East Mediterranean to Europe, Israel’s Energy...

After a "historic" intergovernmental agreement was signed on Thursday by Greece, Cyprus and Israel for the construction of the EastMed natural gas pipeline, the...

The killing of top Iran General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad airport on Friday by US drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump has triggered a...

Oil prices spiked on 3 January on news that Qassem Suleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force and architect of its growing military influence...

A Polish court has convicted a pro-government official for violating the good name of the country’s judges by calling them “ordinary thieves”. The court has...

Senator Bernie Sanders has gathered more than $34.5 million in fundraising during the fourth quarter of 2019, his presidential campaign announced, weeks ahead of...

Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday his decision to file a request for legal parliamentary immunity from prosecution in corruption charges he's facing. In November,...

Ryanair is prepared for further delays to the delivery of its Boeing 737 Max airliners, its chief executive Michael O’Leary said in an interview. O’Leary...

The Japanese government called on the International Criminal Police Organization to request the Lebanese government to arrest the former Nissan chief, Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn left...

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force and the mastermind behind the Islamic Republic’s military and foreign policy in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,...

While serving as Minister of Transport and Communications, Finland's new prime minister Sanna Marin, floated the idea of a flexible 6-hour, 4-day workweek that...

Google’s parent company Alphabet will stop using an intellectual property licensing scheme, known as the “Double Irish, Dutch sandwich”, which allowed it to delay...

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un said on 1 January that the world will witness a new strategic weapon soon, according to the the...

Turkish MPs authorised sending troops to Libya to help the UN-backed government of National Accord in Tripoli fight rival forces of General Khalifa Haftar. During...

Greece has signed a €280 million deal with the US defence contractor Martin Lockheed to upgrade its F-16 fleet over the next seven years. The...

Taiwan’s chief of the general staff, general Shen Yi-ming, has been killed along with seven other people after a helicopter crash-landed into mountains near...

The mayor of Prague, Zdenek Hrib, has warned Western societies to be aware of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence across the globe. Last month, the...

The Spanish government declared three Bolivian diplomats "personae non gratae”, after Bolivia's interim president, Jeanine Anez, said the country would expel Mexico's ambassador and...

Croatia's Prime Minister, Andrej Plenkovic warned EU leaders that freedom of movement across the continent is "killing" small nations. “This is a structural, almost an...

Hopes for a US-China trade deal and an American Petroleum Institute (API) report showing lower US crude inventories pushed oil prices about 1% to...

ATHENS – Greece, Cyprus and Israel plan to sign an intergovernmental agreement for the construction of the EastMed natural gas pipeline in Athens on...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly criticised US sanctions on companies constructing the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany but noted that...

While keeping up the appearances of an active diplomatic campaign in Southeast Europe, the net impact of Athens’ recent initiatives will yield next to...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other major producers led by Russia, a group known as OPEC+, have reportedly agreed to...

Russia started on 2 December Russian gas pipeline supplies to China via the ambitious Power of Siberia gas pipeline or so-called eastern route.Taking part...

The White House announced on December 2 that President Donald J. Trump would be meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on January 7...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The blades of the 20 turbines of the Middelgrunden offshore windfarm, off the coast of Copenhagen, rotated slowly as the boat...

As a consequence of French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision in October to call for a temporary hold on EU accession discussions for Albania and...

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said on 18 November that the company submitted to Naftogaz of Ukraine an official proposal signed by Gazprom CEO Alexey...

A surprise drop in US crude inventories and comments from Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo about lower-than-expected US...

The prime ministers of Greece and North Macedonia met on the sidelines of the Thessaloniki 2019 Summit on November 14. This was their second...

Brussels cast a thin Italian-flavoured political lifeline to North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev over the last ten days, something sorely needed after Zaev...

North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev fumbled badly this week when discussing the relationship between his country’s now-frozen EU accession bid and the standing...

Incoming new EU Commission may be keener on negotiations to resolve regional East Med problemsLIMASSOL, Cyprus – The possible resumption of the dormant peace...

Enlargement boosters across Europe were stunned by the third failure of the European Council to announce a decision on 18 October on a date...

The scenario that emerged late last week with multiple reports that France would oppose immediate decisions on EU Enlargement has come to pass. EU European...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) on 15 October postponed taking a decision to next month on whether to phase out lending to fossil fuels,...