Amid uncertainty over the planned reform of the CAP, the current programme is set to be rolled over for another year.
The US ambassador to Afghanistan rebuked the country's president on Friday for labeling Washington's aid agency “incompetent.” Foreign aid still makes up more than half of Afghanistan's budget, but donors are questioning the efficacy of programs and most funding pledges only run to 2020, Reuters said. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is seeking re-election on Saturday...
The owner of Poundland has kept open the possibility of a flotation or sale as it moves to become entirely independent from crisis-stricken parent company Steinhoff.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has said it hopes a new plan that Moscow has drawn up to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula will help make a breakthrough, RIA Novosti reported on Friday. “We have agreed the draft plan with our Chinese partners and have shown it to representatives of the US, South Korea and North...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival party says it has rejected his demands to form a unity government under his leadership and including his right-wing and ultra-Orthodox allies.
A litter of snow leopard cubs has been born at a conservation park in the Highlands.
The decision by the top court in the EU to curb Russian energy firm Gazprom's use of the Opal gas pipeline, which links Nord Stream to Germany, has saved Poland from a ‘tragic' gas shortage, its state oil and gas company admits. According to Petr Wozniak, head of Poland's state oil and gas company PGNIG,...
