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Tunisia denies entry to five MEPs on foreign affairs committee

The Tunisian authorities have denied entry to five members of the European Parliament's foreign affairs (AFET) committee, who were due to start an official mission to the country on Thursday.

14/09/2023

Europe News

EU foreign affairs ministers call for meeting with candidate countries

EU foreign ministers called on Thursday for a meeting with their counterparts from Ukraine and the western Balkans -- all candidate countries to the bloc -- by the end of September to discuss the enlargement process.

01/09/2023

Europe News

EU working on plans to sanction Niger coup leaders - Borrell

The EU is working on plans to sanction the military leaders who seized power in Niger in July, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday.

30/08/2023

Europe Decoded

What is the ‘Rome Process’, Meloni’s plan to curb irregular migration?

It's the latest in a raft of European efforts to ‘externalise’ migrant controls by outsourcing them to third countries.

25/07/2023

China

Foreign ministers of US and China hold rare one-to-one meeting

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang talk for nearly six hours in Beijing - but appeared to agree on little.

18/06/2023

Europe News

EU greenlights €2 billion ammunition deal for Ukraine

Ukraine roughly needs 1 million ammunition rounds, primarily the 155 mm kind, over the next year.

20/03/2023

Turkey

German FM offers praise and criticism on visit to Greece and Turkey

Annalena Baerbock has been meeting with her counterparts in Athens and Ankara over the weekend to discuss migrants, border security and a Mediterranean island spat.

31/07/2022

Belgium

Belgian foreign minister temporarily steps down to care for husband

Sophie Wilmes' husband has been diagnosed with "aggressive brain cancer".

21/04/2022

United Kingdom

UK abandoned its supporters in Afghanistan, says whistleblower

A former Foreign Office employee has stated that only 5% of Afghan nationals who applied to flee under one UK programme received help.

07/12/2021

World News

Japanese FM discusses de-escalation with Iranian officials

The Iranian president met Sunday with Japan's foreign minister in the capital of Tehran and the two discussed de-escalation of tensions in the region, Iranian news agencies reported.

22/08/2021

United Kingdom

'What's 50 Cent's number?' among oddest requests to UK Foreign Office

British diplomatic staff handled some pretty unusual requests in 2019. Here are 10 of the weirdest enquiries it received.

30/12/2019

Iran

Iran's Foreign Minister announces resignation on Instagram

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stepped down on Monday, announcing his resignation on Instagram. "I am apologising to you for all the shortcomings...in the past years during my time as foreign minister ... I thank the Iranian nation and officials," he wrote.

25/02/2019

Europe Decoded

Venezuela: 1 litre of milk could cost a third of your wage | #TheCube

#TheCube | "Hyperinflation is too great for families to feed themselves." Amid a political crisis and growing economic collapse, what is hyperinflation like for Venezuelans? The Cube reached out to social media users who told their stories through receipts.

15/02/2019

Spain

Spanish foreign minister: 'US only had to kill four Indians'

Spain's foreign minister offended many by stating that Americans only "had to kill four Indians" to get independence.

28/11/2018

Iran

Jeremy Hunt meets daughter of charity worker jailed in Iran

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt made an emotional plea to Iran, pressing the country to release jailed British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

21/11/2018

Russia

Russian ministry continues using Telegram despite ban

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Telegram channel continues to be active despite a court ruling that blocked country-wide access to the messenger service back in April.

20/07/2018

United Kingdom

Less than half of English teens learn a foreign language

Less than half of English pupils choose to learn a modern foreign language at school, a new report has found.

27/06/2018

Russia

Euroviews. Russia's influence is much more than propaganda and fake news | View

How Russia’s growing soft power among Western populists has been underestimated.

04/04/2018