The US State Department on Thursday said the United States welcomed China's commitment to arms control negotiations and that "prudent next steps" should include face-to-face meetings between US and Chinese officials.
State Department spokeswoman (...)
Sebastian Vettel endured a nightmare start to the season in Austria on Sunday and Formula One's motorsport managing director Ross Brawn suggested being dropped by Ferrari for 2021 had affected his concentration.
Vettel, a four-times world champion (...)
أعلنت الشرطة النمساوية العثور على معارض شيشانيا مقتولا بطلقات نارية، قرب العاصمة فيينا، قبل أن تؤكد توقيف روسي في إطار التحقيقات.
وأفاد مسؤولون في النمسا، الأحد، بتوقيف روسي من الشيشان في إطار التحقيقات، وسط ترجيحات بأن المعارض قد اغتيل على خلفية (...)
Formula One drivers will discuss taking a knee at the opening race of the delayed season in Austria on Sunday.
''Some of the drivers have already been speaking,'' McLaren driver Lando Norris said. ''If we are going to do it, we should all do it as a (...)
Austria and Turkey accused each other on Monday of responding inappropriately to clashes between Kurdish and Turkish protesters in Vienna last week, further straining already tense relations.
The violence began on Wednesday, when a brawl broke out (...)
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is postponing her wedding next month because of a European Union summit on the future of the bloc's budget.
``The Council meeting in Brussels takes place on the Saturday in July, where we had planned a (...)
US Special Presidential Envoy Marshall Billingslea will travel to Austria on Monday and Tuesday to discuss "mutually agreed topics related to the future of arms control" with Russian Deputy Foreign Sergei Ryabkov, the U.S. State Department said on (...)
England manager Gareth Southgate has said it was an easy decision to accept a 30% wage cut to help the Football Association (FA) mitigate the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Football was suspended in March due to the coronavirus outbreak (...)
The European Union must reach a deal on a proposed 750 billion euro economic recovery plan to cope with the impact of the coronavirus crisis by July, French Junior European Affairs Minister Amelie de Montchalin said on Thursday.
"There is no other (...)
Austria has announced it will open its borders to most European neighbors beginning June 16 with the exceptions of Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Britain.
Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg also said Wednesday that the border with Italy to the (...)
Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday.
In a modelling study of lockdown (...)
Professional soccer leagues around Europe are gearing up for a return to action following the novel coronavirus stoppage, but some are more advanced than others. Here is a roundup of the state of play:
GERMANY
The Bundesliga restarted on May 16 with (...)
Formula One races won't be canceled if a driver tests positive for the coronavirus or if a team withdraws, CEO Chase Carey says.
F1 wants to avoid a repeat of the season opener in Australia in March, which was canceled when the McLaren team withdrew (...)
European stocks advanced on Monday as lockdown measures ease across the continent, while protests continue throughout the U.S. following the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, last week.
London's FTSE 100 added 1.4% in early trade (...)
Malta will reopen its airport to passenger flights on July 1, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Sunday, as the Mediterranean island rolls back restrictions introduced in March to halt COVID-19 infections.
Tourism accounts for almost a quarter of (...)
European football will continue its cautious return to play following the COVID-19 stoppage over the next week as a number of the continent's smaller leagues restart with some novelties and one team in serious trouble for breaking coronavirus (...)
Formula One remains hopeful about the chances of racing at Britain's Silverstone circuit in July and August despite quarantine measures confirmed on Friday.
Interior Minister Priti Patel said a 14-day quarantine will be introduced from June 8 for (...)
EU member states Austria, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands stated their opposition on Saturday to a French-German plan for a 500 billion euro ($545 billion) coronavirus recovery fund that would issue grants, calling for a loans-based approach (...)
European stocks declined on Thursday morning as euro zone PMI (purchasing managers' index) data indicated another slowdown in activity for the region's manufacturing and services industry in May.
Germany's DAX index and France's CAC 40 each fell by (...)
Egypt has issued a joint statement with 16 countries demanding the elimination of nuclear weapons, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
The joint statement was also released to mark the (...)
Formula One says the UK government's quarantine plans would rule out a British Grand Prix and affect tens of thousands of F1-related jobs if exemptions are not granted for sport.
Ministers have said they plan a 14-day quarantine for most people (...)
Germany's agreement to share debt with other EU countries to finance an economic recovery plan is being greeted as a political breakththrough and an overdue sign of unity in the face of the worst downturn the bloc has ever seen.
Chancellor Angela (...)
A green economy is the means to salvation for the global economy after the coronavirus pandemic has affected 81 per cent of the world's workforce. After millions of people had been infected and thousands had died due to the virus, the tourism and (...)
Germany and several other European countries where the coronavirus spread has slowed were moving ahead Friday with relaxing border restrictions, while flare-ups in Mexico and elsewhere served as a reminder the pandemic is far from over.
Slovenia, (...)
Slovenia announced late on Thursday an official end to its coronavirus epidemic, becoming the first European country to do so, after the government confirmed less than seven new infections each day for the past two weeks.
People now arriving in (...)
