Eritrea Ethiopia finally recognises 2000 border ruling with Eritrea Recognition removes major stumbling block to better relations between East African neighbours. 06/06/2018
USA US and Mexico president trade barbs over border wall US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Mexico of doing "nothing" to stop illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, and repeated his election campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for his planned border wall. 30/05/2018
brussels bureau Brexit progress balanced on Irish border The leader of the DUP in Northern Ireland has said she doesn't want any deal done which would lead to them having 'regulatory divergence' from the rest of the UK 04/12/2017
South Korea Watch: North Korean soldier's daring dash to defect Video has emerged of a North Korean soldier fleeing a hail of bullets as he escapes to the South 22/11/2017
Slovenia Croatia rejects ruling in maritime dispute with Slovenia In a row that centres on the Bay of Piran, judges have granted Slovenia unhindered access to international waters in the Adriatic Sea 30/06/2017
world news Spain tells Britain to calm down over Gibraltar Spain has told Britain to calm down over Gibraltar amid an escalating row. 03/04/2017
Egypt Egypt to transfer strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi An Egyptian court has annulled a ruling blocking the transfer of sovereignty of two islands to Saudi Arabia. 03/04/2017
world news Wall-to-wall phone call Peña Nieto and Trump talk obstacles Peña Nieto a Trump in hour-long telephone call 28/01/2017
China South China Sea: Beijing defiant over weapons deployment claims Beijing has reacted defiantly to claims that it appears to have installed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, on all seven of the artificial islands it has built in the South Ch 15/12/2016
world news Fortress Europe builds barriers to stem the refugee flow As Europe faces the most significant people movement since the Second World War the landscape of the continent is changing. 22/09/2016
Unreported Europe Nagorno-Karabakh: a deadly conflict that threatens to spread In this edition of Insiders we head to Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed republic that seceded from then communist Azerbaijan when the Soviet Union fell apart in… 16/09/2016
Unreported Europe Nagorno-Karabakh: a time-bomb in the Caucasus? Last April, fighting between troops from the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Azerbaijan army rekindled a conflict that had been frozen for more than 20… 16/09/2016
Unreported Europe Nagorno-Karabakh: peace or more peril? Sophie Claudet: Valerie, what is so important about Nagorno-Karabakh that is worth fighting over? 16/09/2016
China Ramos bids to restore friendly ties between China and the Philippines As China raises the temperature in its several maritime territorial disputes with its neighbours, the former Phillipines president Fidel Ramos is making a five-day trip to Hong… 08/08/2016
world news Beijing says its sovereignty over the South China Sea won't be affected Beijing has told the European Union its sovereignty over the South China Sea will not be affected despite Tuesday’s ruling (July 12) in The Hague dismissing China’s territorial claims in the… 13/07/2016
world news Beijing begins military exercise in South China Sea Tension is mounting ahead of a hotly-anticipated international ruling due on competing claims by China and the Philippines in the region. 05/07/2016
Namibia South Caucuses regional tensions result in ceasefire violations Tensions in the South Caucuses region erupted in to violence on Thursday. Azerbaijan claimed one civilian was killed and six wounded by gunfire in 28/04/2016
Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh truce shows signs of fracture Azerbaijan has accused Armenian-backed separatists of violating a new ceasefire agreed on Tuesday. While the Armenian side accused Azerbaijan of shelling its positions. 08/04/2016
China China-US: reef row gets real Tensions are on the rise in the South China Sea. The USS Lassen reportedly breached the 12-mile exclusion zone imposed by China around the Subi and 27/10/2015
world news Troubled waters: the South China Sea dispute With the world distracted by seemingly more immediate stories of war, migration and elections, a spat between the US and China wasn’t exactly 26/05/2015
China Oil reserves ignite the explosive issue of sovereignty in the East China Sea China- Japan relations 20/12/2013
Spain Twitter user tells British Gibraltar MEP she's "too ugly to visit Spain" A barrage of vicious online abuse has been hurled at a British MEP who intervened in the mounting dispute over Gibraltar. Julie Girling, who 16/08/2013
interview Turkish Cypriot leader: EU not sincere or impartial over Cyprus In response to gas and oil drilling carried out by the Greek Cypriot government in the Mediterranean, Turkish Cypriots have started to conduct their 04/10/2011
focus A green future for No-Man's Land. In South Korea, in one of the most heavily militarised zones in the world, they are transforming the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) – a symbol of war 04/10/2011
interview Azerbaijan president's perspective on Nagorno Karabakh impasse resolution On the eve of a new round of negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, mediated by Russia, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, told 24/06/2011
interview Difficult diplomacy as Armenia and Azerbaijan talk Nagorno Karabakh María Piñeiro euronews: “President Sargsyan, there appears to be a sense of optimism about the possible outcome of the meeting to be held in Kazan 23/06/2011
