Bulgaria remains open to talks with North Macedonia without ultimatums or departures from European Union policy, President Iliana Iotova told journalists on Saturday. "Bulgaria is a full member of the European Union, and we cannot allow a country on the path to EU membership to reject the EU's valu»»»

In recent months, the eastern Central African Republic has been hit by several attacks attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan militia infamous for its massacres and mass abductions of children in the 1990s and 2000s. The group's leader, Joseph Kony, wanted by the International Cr»»»

A Sova Harris poll puts the Iliyana Yotova-Kiril Valchev presidential ticket at 50.2% support, compared with 23.7% for Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev and 12.7% for Kostadin Kostadinov and Petar Volgin. The representative survey of Bulgaria’s adult population was conducted by Sova Harris from Septe»»»

Cross-border rail may take years, but related cable projects may move ahead sooner If you have heard more about the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor lately, you may be picturing containers moving between India and Europe by ship and train. That is the plan’s biggest promise. It may also b»»»

The US is pressuring France and Germany to tap emergency diesel reserves to help bring down soaring global prices, and has threatened not to export the fuel if they refuse, Reuters has reported. Washington wants the EU to release 120 million barrels over the next six months as US President Donald T»»»

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has rewarded her personal communications adviser with a permanent job in the commission’s media department, in a move that reveals how the EU bureaucracy really works, and how von der Leyen has created a royal court in Brussels. Von der Leyen’s Col»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Museums (QM), the nation’s preeminent institution for art and culture, yesterday released new details about ‘Giuseppe Penone: The Inner Flow of Life,’ a major survey at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) focused on the career of the pioneering Italian artist. On view from 26 Oct»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Museums (QM), the nation’s preeminent institution for art and culture,released new details about ‘Giuseppe Penone: The Inner Flow of Life’, a major survey at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) focused on the career of the pioneering Italian artist. On view from Octo»»»

This is an interview for the European Newsroom (enr), which Tanjug is a part of. The European Commission wants Frontex to be able to deploy a rapid-response team within 24 hours. But agency chief Hans Leijtens draws a line at command: national governments must remain responsible. After Ceuta, the q»»»

BRUSSELS: Work to set up migrant return hubs outside the European Union is progressing “very well”, Denmark said Thursday as the bloc’s home affairs ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss further ways to boost deportations. Denmark — along with Austria, Greece, Germany and the Netherlands — has bee»»»

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Albania’s progress toward European Union membership during a joint press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, describing the country as one of the leading performers in the EU integration process. Von der Leyen, who said she wa»»»

Spain is coordinating with Morocco to prevent a new mass crossing into Ceuta this week, Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares said ealrier in September in response to renewed encouragement to storm the Ceuta border crossing on social media. Warnings of a new wave of border crossings has caus»»»

First female lawyer from Hazara community honoured for defending minorities Dubai: Pakistani human rights lawyer Jalila Haider, who has spent more than a decade defending some of the country’s most vulnerable communities despite death threats has won the 2026 Right Livelihood Award, widely known as»»»

The European Parliament’s culture committee has voted to increase EU funds for the flagship Erasmus+ student exchange programme by €7bn in 2028-2034, even as so-called frugal countries seek to cut overall funding. With 24 votes in favour and one abstention, MEPs proposed to increase the European Co»»»

DAMASCUS: EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday in Damascus that the European Union wanted to “upgrade” its partnership with Syria and help boost its recovery but called for further domestic reform. “The European Union is using its political and economic tools to help Syria on the pa»»»

The European Commission says it will not compromise on protecting the EU’s external borders, but will also respect human rights, while declining to specify if a new emergency rule could suspend people’s basic right to asylum. The vague statements by Magnus Brunner, the EU home affairs commissioner,»»»

The U.N. envoy for Yemen said Tuesday he met with Houthi negotiators over the weekend in efforts to avert further escalation in Yemen amid fierce battles on the country's western coast between the Iran-backed Houthis and the Saudi-supported, but fragmented, government forces. The renewed violence, »»»

PoliticsGermanyAI: Germany plans to double data center capacity Muna TurkiGermany is rewriting the rules to attract data center investment from AI companies. But local communities are becoming increasingly skeptical. https://p.dw.com/p/5NBdtA Google hyperscale data center is being built in Dietzenb»»»

This September, the Arctic quietly widened the rift between presumed transatlantic allies. Brussels’ attempts to mitigate growing US influence in the region have so far been unsystematic but intense. The Arctic Summit held in Finnish Lapland and the subsequent EU-Canada talks, where European Commis»»»

The European Commission is being pressed to deliver an animal cage ban by 2027 after failing to meet previous commitments. Several hundred animal rights activists gathered at the EU’s office for health and food safety in Brussels on Monday (28 September) to encourage a ban on poultry cages and on t»»»

RIYADH: Some of the world’s most powerful countries are violating international law while sitting on the Security Council, the UN secretary-general’s spokesperson has said, arguing that reform is needed to make the body more credible and representative. Appearing on the Arab News’ current affairs p»»»

Tens of thousands of students took to the streets across Germany on Friday to protest the government’s military service reform amid Berlin’s push to expand the armed forces, citing the alleged threat from Russia. Organizers of the “School Strike Against Conscription” said around 45,000 students joi»»»

German-Russian stage director and adviser to the Bolshoi Theatre’s CEO Hans-Joachim Fry called Russia’s cultural education system one of the best in the world, saying attempts to “cancel” Russian culture should end. “Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia’s system of musical and cultural»»»

New York, Sept. 26 (SANA) The U.N. Security Council condemned repeated Houthi militia attacks on Saudi Arabia, including strikes targeting civilians and energy infrastructure, and reaffirmed its support for the Yemeni government. In a press statement Friday, council members expressed solidarity wit»»»

It has been called Europe's disaster year. 2026 has seen more than 30,000 excess deaths linked to heatwaves, along with mega wildfires, nuclear power plants having to shut down, gas plants under pressure, droughts reducing hydropower generation from rivers and wild fluctuations in electricity price»»»

Bulgaria must use its membership in the Eurozone and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to attract investment, strengthen competitiveness and build a more resilient economy, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said at a high-level conference in Sofia organized by the Ministry of Finance and the ESM. The»»»

Bulgaria expects North Macedonia to fulfill its commitments and make the necessary changes to advance its path toward EU membership, states a position by the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The statement came after North Macedonia's Foreign Minister Timco Mucunski said the EU should take par»»»

Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are driving governments across Europe to craft subsidies, taxes and policy revisions that might shield their economies, companies and increasingly aggrieved citizens from record gasoline and diesel prices. Countries around the world have intervened to limit the e»»»

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has revealed that his government carefully examined the possibility of US-led military action against his country, despite President Donald Trump having ruled out using force against America’s northern neighbor. In an interview with the New York Times published o»»»

European Commission president and unelected de facto “queen” of Europe, Ursula von der Leyen, can’t get enough of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Her annual “State of the European Union” address last week should have been called “State of my crush on Mark Carney.” It seemed to transform into o»»»

Fabian von der MarkThe US and China are racing toward more powerful AI. But as risks mount, can Presidents Trump and Xi agree on rules for the technology's future? https://p.dw.com/p/5MyXcAdvertisementAs concerns grow over the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, experts are warning that the g»»»

The European Commission announced €505 million in financial support for Lebanon for 2026 and 2027, the second half of the €1 billion support package announced by President Ursula von der Leyen during her visit to Beirut in May 2024. The new funding will cover three main areas and will support Leban»»»

The European Commission is proposing to the Council of the European Union that it lift the measures imposed on Hungary in 2022 under the rule-of-law conditionality procedure, which would make 4.2 billion euros in cohesion funds available to Hungary once again and restore the access of the affected »»»

The Baltic states have secretly asked the European Commission for hundreds of millions of euros to boost their defense against drones, citing an alleged Russian threat, Lithuania’s Defence ​Minister Robertas Kaunas told to Reuters on Wednesday. Moscow has repeatedly rejected claims that it has aggr»»»

The European Commission has proposed unlocking €4.2 billion in frozen EU funds for Hungary, marking a major development in the long-running funding dispute between Budapest and Brussels. The move could also restore full access to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe for Hungarian students and researchers, f»»»

The EU is hoping to ease business expansion across the single market – but Europe’s unions worry about the price this will carry for labour rights and remuneration if employers can choose to register their business thousands of kilometres from where their workers are based. The 28th Regime, also kn»»»

DEAD SEA — Germany and The Netherlands have reaffirmed their support for Jordan’s fintech ecosystem, highlighting financial technology as a tool to expand access to finance, support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), advance green investment and connect Jordanian companies with inte»»»

Fuel prices have hit record highs across Europe in recent days, driven by soaring oil prices amid the war in the Middle East and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries. However, the scale of the increases, as well as the measures taken to address them, varies significantly from one EU country to a»»»

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who is attending the UN General Assembly session in New York, met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday. "When, between two meetings, you literally run into a friend. With President Macron, in passing, as both of us were on the way to our ne»»»

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday during the UN General Assembly session in New York and expressed the belief Serbia would accelerate on its path to EU membership. "In a brief discussion with Ursula von der Leyen, I »»»

Paris: French President HH Emmanuel Macron urged the European Commission to take measures to ease restrictions on the import and production of fuel and gas, amid the sharp rise in fuel prices due to the war in the Middle East. The French presidency stated in a statement today that Macron sent a mes»»»

Damascus, Sept. 22 (SANA) President Ahmad al-Sharaa returns to the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week a year after his first appearance there, with Syria facing a markedly different diplomatic landscape following the removal of major restrictions and an expansion of international»»»

Brussels, Belgium: The EU and the Philippines on Tuesday welcomed a "breakthrough" in talks on a long-awaited trade deal, aiming to conclude the accord in the next few months. It is the latest major trade move by Brussels in a push to diversify its partnerships as Europe faces challenges from the U»»»

A group of mostly European states and middle powers is seeking to build a new global coalition on artificial intelligence, as countries outside the US-China technology race scramble to retain influence over how increasingly powerful systems are governed. Leaders representing 20 countries, alongside»»»

The EU is divided over a deal to de-sanction Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov. Ambassadors from EU member states failed on Monday to agree on whether to de-sanction the tycoon, amplifying deep divisions on attitudes towards Russia within the bloc. According to Euronews, France has pushed for Usm»»»

EU-Philippines accord to replace GSP+ and deepen strategic links by 2027 Manila: The European Union (EU) and the Philippines have reached a “substantial agreement” on a long-awaited free trade agreement (FTA), officials said Tuesday. The deal moves the two sides closer to a formal deal aimed at exp»»»

The possibility of U.S. Citibank opening a branch in Kyrgyzstan was discussed by President Sadyr Japarov and Citibank Managing Director Stephanie von Friedeburg. According to the president’s press service, the meeting took place in New York during Sadyr Japarov’s working visit to the United States.»»»

Europe’s human rights framework is on a cliff edge and risks unravelling everything achieved since World War Two, following fresh Polish and EU efforts to restrict asylum, according to Europe’s top rights defender. “Political leaders really have to become much more sensitive to how fragile the mome»»»

For nearly four decades, Canada built its economy around closer integration with the United States. President Donald Trump has turned that dependence into leverage, imposing tariffs, threatening Canada's sovereignty and openly seeking to pull Canadian industrial production south. Canadian Prime Min»»»

Europe is facing “the worst energy crisis in history,” Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev has warned, describing the situation as a “self-made.” He has repeatedly blamed the EU’s decision to cut Russian energy imports as a key factor behind the crisis. Dmitriev made the remarks after reports of worsenin»»»