German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is refusing to back growing calls for an EU-wide ban on giving tourist visas to Russians.
Speaking in Oslo after a meeting with Nordic leaders, Scholz said: "This is not the war of the Russian people. It is Putin's war (...)
Real Madrid won the European Super Cup for the fifth time in history on Wednesday evening. The team of coach Carlo Ancelotti was 2-0 too strong for Europa League winner Eintracht Frankfurt in Helsinki, Finland.
Defender David Alaba signed for the (...)
The leaders of Estonia and Finland want other EU countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to travel to Europe on holiday while the Kremlin carries out a devastating war in Ukraine.
Estonian Prime (...)
The UN's sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, has announced the ten winners of its first ever Joint Innovation Challenge; a cutting edge competition to provide funding for social enterprises with innovative solutions that advance the (...)
On September 18, 2013, I wrote an article in the Saudi English Daily Arab News titled, "Did Putin succeed in his attempt to woo Americans?"
My article was in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin's article in the New York Times a week (...)
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan has received a $100 million contribution from the World Bank to assist with critical emergency cash and food sustenance in Sudan.
In the first-ever direct contribution between the two UN agencies in the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has supported the World Bank's agreement with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to provide the WFP $100 million for Sudan food emergency project.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday in a statement that (...)
The European Commission has urged countries across the bloc to cut their gas use by 15% until March amid fears Russia could halt supplies.
It says the target is voluntary but will become legally binding if Moscow turns off the taps this summer.
The (...)
Russia warned on Thursday that it would take countermeasures against any threats in the Baltic Sea especially after Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
The spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova commented on Polish (...)
The European Union is bracing itself for a difficult wildfire season with hundreds of firefighters from different member states being deployed as the drought in southern European countries could become "the worst ever".
"Since 2017, we have (...)
Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time.
The developers say this could solve the problem of year-round supply, a major issue for green energy.
Using low-grade (...)
Ukrainian authorities say Russian missiles have struck a multi-story block of flats and two other civilian facilities in Ukraine's southern Odesa region, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens.
One missile struck the building in the village (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to capture most of Ukraine, US intelligence agencies believe.
Moscow's troops have been so weakened by combat, however, that US officials assess they are only capable of making slow territorial gains.
It (...)
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Ankara wanted 12 suspects from Finland and another 21 from Sweden.
Turkey says it will now be pushing for the extradition of 33 "terror" suspects from Finland and Sweden, under a deal that lifted Ankara's (...)
NATO's plans to add two more Nordic countries to the military alliance "will likely drag on" as Turkey puts a block on accepting Sweden and Finland as members.
That's the conclusion of a new report from the International Crisis Group which found (...)
The Human Rights Commission (HRC) President Dr. Awwad Bin Saleh Al-Awwad met here Wednesday with a delegation from the Parliament of Finland headed by Representative Hussein Al-Tai, chairman of the Finnish-Saudi Parliamentary Friendship Group in (...)
President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad met here today with a delegation from the Parliament of Finland headed by Representative Hussein Al-Tai, the Chairman of the Finnish-Saudi Parliamentary Friendship Group in (...)
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled her new plan to hold a referendum on independence, comparing Scotland with other European countries and laying out her case that Scotland would be fairer, wealthier and happier apart from the (...)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday called for a solution to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden "as soon as possible," clarifying that an upcoming NATO summit at the end of June in Madrid is not a deadline to resolve the (...)
Finland and Sweden are preparing for an enlarged NATO naval exercise in the Baltic Sea on Sunday, amid Turkish concerns over their membership.
NATO's fortnight-long 'Baltops 22' is being hosted this year by Sweden, with the Finnish Navy and Air (...)
Danes vote in a referendum on Wednesday on whether to scrap a 30-year opt-out and take part in EU defence and security policy.
Denmark is the only EU member that has a so-called defence reservation.
But like its Nordic neighbours, Sweden and (...)
As the war in Ukraine rages, Serbia's president announced that he has secured an "extremely favorable" natural gas deal with Russia during a telephone conversation on Sunday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Serbian President Aleksandar (...)
Europe's frantic search for alternatives to Russian energy has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway's oil and gas.
But the continent's second-biggest natural gas supplier is now fending off accusations that it is profiting from (...)
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha yesterday held a meeting with his counterparts of Rwanda and Finland with the aim of enhancing strategic partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and their (...)
Ukraine's foreign minister said that NATO was "sidelined and doing absolutely nothing" about the Russian invasion of his country, while the EU was taking "revolutionary decisions" to help Ukraine.
The minister Dmytro Kuleba was speaking at the World (...)
