Greece's eastern islands are struggling to cope with a surge in arrivals of migrants and asylum-seekers that has undermined efforts to ease overcrowding at refugee camps. The number of people reaching Lesbos, Samos, and other Greeks islands in the eastern Aegean Sea is the highest since the EU reached a €6-billion agreement in 2016 to...
France is calling on European and other members of the coalition fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Syria to regroup as the US abdicates its leadership role in the region, AP reports. Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian told BFM television on Wednesday that France is notably now looking to Russia, given their “common...
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Yemen's Saudi-backed government and southern separatists are expected on Thursday to announce a deal to end a power struggle in the southern port of Aden, Reuters reports, citing officials. The tension has fractured an Arab coalition battling the Iran-aligned Houthi group. The UAE-backed separatist Southern Transition Council (STC) is nominally allied to the Saudi-backed government...
Lidl is spending £15 billion on its British business over the next five years, the supermarket chain has revealed.
European Union ministers have failed to reach a consensus on whether to open membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia, amid stiff opposition to the move from France, AP reported. Apologizing to the citizens of the two Balkans hopefuls, Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Tuesday that “the overwhelming majority” of EU member countries supported...
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold talks on Wednesday with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel for the second time in a week to chart a united front on Brexit, Syria and other issues ahead of this week's EU summit. Macron goes into the two-day meeting in Brussels starting on Thursday still smarting from the rejection of...
