According to Customs data, the surplus was boosted by trade gains in December, with exports climbing 6.6% from the year before, better than economists’ estimates and higher than November’s 5.9% year-o...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first visit to Asia has raised India’s hopes for a long-awaited trade pact with the European Union as Berlin pushes for deeper engagement with South Asia amid height...
Emmanuel Macron is convening an emergency defence cabinet to discuss Donald's Trump's intent to acquire Greenland and Iran's brutal crackdown on mass protests. For in-depth analysis and insight, Oli...
Europe's largest agricultural show in Paris will go ahead without cows this year, following an outbreak of lumpy skin disease in France that raised concerns about potential contamination, reports Laur...
A monument of Turkmenistan's former president, in Ashgabat. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images An Air France flight from India to Paris diverted to Turkmenistan. It was already running almost a ...
A struggling currency sparked the protests and Trump’s new tariffs on Tehran’s trade partners will only increase the pain...
Greenland would choose to remain Danish over a US takeover, its leader said Tuesday, ahead of crunch White House talks on the future of the Arctic island which President Donald Trump has repeatedly th...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cast the U.S. announcement that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would advance to its second phase as largely symbolic, raising questions about how its more ...
France has already deployed "an initial team of soldiers" to Greenland as part of a European military mission, and will send new "land, air and sea resources" to the autonomous Danish territory covete...
Military personnel from several NATO countries including Germany, France, Sweden and Norway headed to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark and its allies prepared for exercises to try to assure US Presid...
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman have led efforts to talk President Donald Trump out of a US attack on Iran, according to news reports. Turkey is also concerned about a collapse of central authority in Ir...
What happened in Tanzania during the unrest that followed the October election remains unclear. New evidence points to killings and grave human rights abuses by security forces in the second largest c...
What happened in Tanzania during the unrest that followed the October election remains unclear. New evidence points to killings and grave human rights abuses by security forces in the second largest c...
President Donald Trump is set to meet Thursday at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elections rejected...
Schools across parts of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...
The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked January 12 to at least 2,000 people killed, activists say. With the Internet down in Iran, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more ...
Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...
Ugandans voted in a tense national election on Thursday after an often violent campaign and internet shutdown, with President Yoweri Museveni seeking to extend his rule into a fifth decade. Museveni ...
US President Donald Trump said on January 13 he’s cancelled talks with Iranian officials amid a protest crackdown, telling Iranian citizens “help is on its way.” Trump did not offer any details about ...
US President Donald Trump is expected to get a briefing over sanction options against Iran, as Washington has been threatening to act against the country. But according to US newspaper Wall Street Jou...