EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos says Turkey’s recent actions on media freedom and LGBTQ+ rights are widening the gap with its EU accession goal, even as co-operation grows.…
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The International Organization for Migration says almost all of Gaza’s population needs shelter help before winter, with only about 17 per cent of winter shelter needs met so far.…
Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei says the US accepted some of Tehran's seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but called Washington's overall response inadequate.…
Mahmoud Abbas has postponed November’s legislative elections and set September 11, 2027 for both legislative and presidential votes, citing Israeli measures and conditions in the Palestinian territories.…
The second EU-GCC leaders’ summit will take place in Riyadh on October 24, with European Council President Antonio Costa calling for closer co-operation on security, energy and trade.…
Pether, jailed in 2021 over a contract dispute involving Iraq's central bank, was released in June 2025 but had been unable to leave the country until now.…
UK gas storage was 48 per cent full at the start of October as European prices rose more than 150 per cent this year amid disruption to Gulf LNG exports.…
Three seizures over several weeks have prompted Prime Minister Nawaf Salam to promise a full investigation and revived public concern about past political assassinations.…
Foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg set up EUSM Lebanon to help with border control, counter-smuggling and police training as the UN force prepares to leave on 31 December.…
A civil society forum in Dakar asked the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to press Sudan to admit OPCW technical teams.…
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