Ankara quickly drew the curtain on the "case of the missing chair," the incident that left Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU Commission, standing while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of the EU Council Charles Michel (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi sent a clear warning to Ethiopia on 30 March, stating that Egypt's right to the Nile water will not be compromised and that its share in its lifeline is a "red line". He added that tensions regarding this topic will (...)
AstraZeneca had a positive meeting with the European Commission last week, the Anglo-Swedish company said after an Italian newspaper said the group had not replied to an EU letter of complaint over COVID-19 vaccines within a 20-day (...)
Turkey's foreign minister responded on Thursday to a diplomatic mishap in which only one of two visiting European Union chiefs were given a chair at a meeting in Ankara, saying the seating was arranged in line with the bloc's demands.
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A year ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak a "global pandemic."
The virus spiralled out of control and spread across borders at breathtaking speed, becoming the biggest health crisis the world has faced in over (...)
On the fringe of a two-day NATO meeting in Brussels (23-24 March), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu whether Turkey was going to give up the Russian made S-400 air defence system. Cavusoglu (...)
Dozens of nations and international organizations were holding virtual talks on Tuesday to help tackle the humanitarian crisis deepening in Syria and neighboring countries as the civil war there entered its 11th year without a political solution in (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the divided U.N. Security Council on Monday to stop making humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria a political issue and open more border crossings to get food and other help to 13.4 million people in (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that cooperation between allies was more important than at any time in recent history and that relations with NATO and the European Union would be crucial to overcoming challenges.
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The European Commission on Wednesday will extend EU powers to potentially block COVID-19 vaccine exports to Britain and other areas with much higher vaccination rates, and to cover instances of companies backloading contracted supplies, EU officials (...)
The United States and countries around Europe are stepping up cooperation to respond to ``aggressive and coercive'' behavior by China, days after the U.S. and its allies launched coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials accused of rights (...)
The European Union and the United States on Monday imposed sanctions on individuals and groups linked to last month's military coup in Myanmar as the repression of pro-democracy protesters by security forces reached what Germany's foreign minister (...)
Turkey is sending the wrong messages to the European Union by withdrawing from a pact designed to counter violence against women and closing down the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned on Monday. (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Brussels next week to meet with NATO foreign ministers and European Union officials, the U.S. Department of State said on Friday as the Biden administration seeks to repair transatlantic ties.
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Australia said on Wednesday it will ask the European Union to release 1 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to help Papua New Guinea (PNG) battle a dangerous outbreak that authorities fear could spread to other parts of the region.
The request could (...)
Towards the end of this month European Union foreign ministers are set to examine political and security developments on the southern shore of the Mediterranean. The questions they will address during a meeting of the Council of Foreign Affairs in (...)
Publicly, the European Union has dismissed Russia's global coronavirus vaccine supply campaign as a propaganda stunt by an undesirable regime.
Behind the scenes, the bloc is turning to Moscow's Sputnik V shot as it tries to get its stuttering (...)
The Egyptian House of Representatives' Human Rights Committee announced its "denunciation and utter rejection of the accusations and allegations mentioned in the joint statement by several United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) member states on (...)
With 100 days until the rescheduled European Championship, UEFA is considering cutting three cities from its list of 12 host venues across the continent.
Bilbao, Dublin and Glasgow are at risk of being dropped over the lack of guarantees about the (...)
Austria and Denmark, chafing at the slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union, have broken ranks with Brussels to form an alliance with Israel to produce second-generation vaccines against mutations of the coronavirus.
The move by the (...)
The first Philia (Friendship) Forum was held in Athens in Greece in early February in the wake of an initiative by the Greek government and with the participation of Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and France. (...)
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday blamed the European Union for its deteriorating relations with Russia and accused the bloc of systematically destroying mechanisms for cooperation.
Ties between Russia and the West, already at (...)
A growing number of governments are curbing diplomatic ties with Myanmar and increasing economic pressure on its military over the coup last week that erased the fragile democratic progress in the long-oppressed Southeast Asian nation.
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The latest round of the Egyptian-Ethiopian talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) brokered by former chair of the African Union (AU) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ended without agreement last month, adding yet another (...)
A top European Union official cancelled a meeting set for Thursday with the UK's new envoy to Brussels amid a spat over Britain's refusal to grant the EU's envoys full diplomatic status in London following Brexit, an EU official said.
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