Military spending in Central and Western Europe is now higher than the last year of the Cold War, a new report has found.
According to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Europe has seen a widespread (...)
JEDDAH — The multinational air exercise INIOCHOS 2024 officially commenced at Andravida Air Base in Greece, witnessing the participation of the Royal Saudi Air Force alongside air forces from brotherly and friendly nations.
Spearheading the Saudi (...)
Almost half of Europeans have a positive opinion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky but the feeling varies wildly across member states.
This is one of the main conclusions from an exclusive Euronews poll conducted by Ipsos among almost 26,000 (...)
RIYADH — A group from the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) has arrived at Andravida Air Base in Greece to take part in the INIOCHOS 2024 air drill. Scheduled for this month, the exercise is one of the largest of its kind in Europe, featuring (...)
The European Union on Sunday announced a €7.3 billion aid package for cash-strapped Egypt amid concerns that economic pressure and conflicts and chaos in neighboring countries could drive more migrants to European shores.
European Commission (...)
European Union countries reached on Wednesday evening a hard-fought deal to boost and revamp military assistance to Ukraine. The agreement struck by ambassadors in Brussels will inject an additional €5 billion into the European Peace Facility (EPF) (...)
Frontex should pull out of countries that fail to rescue migrants at sea or violate fundamental rights. Otherwise, the EU risks becoming "complicit" in the deaths, the European Ombudsman has warned in a new report.
The findings, released on (...)
Only one in ten Europeans believe that Ukraine can defeat Russia, according to an EU-wide poll.
Conducted across 12 EU countries — including France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden — the survey found that pessimism (...)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will soon put forward a common strategy for the EU's defense industry, designed to strengthen military production and arms supply.
Von der Leyen, who has just announced her intention to run for a (...)
The European Union on Monday formally launched a bespoke naval mission to protect commercial vessels in the Red Sea from attacks by Houthi rebels.
Mission 'Aspides' — Greek for shield — will aim to preserve freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and (...)
The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement.
The Rubymar was in the Gulf of Aden and nearing the Bab al-Mandab Strait when it was struck, (...)
Greek farmers dumped chestnuts and apples on the pavement outside an agricultural fair Saturday and promised to escalate protests after a Tuesday meeting.
The farmers were from the Thessaly region, in central Greece, and came to the northern Greek (...)
The Biden administration told Congress it intends to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed off on Sweden's accession to NATO on Thursday – a development that caps off more than a year of quiet, complicated (...)
The UK is sending some of Ghana's "crown jewels" back home, 150 years after looting them from the court of the Asante king.
A gold peace pipe is among 32 items returning under long-term loan deals, the BBC can reveal.
The Victoria & Albert Museum (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Palestinians must not be pressured into leave Gaza, and must be allowed to return to their homes once conditions allow.
Blinken condemned statements by some Israeli ministers, who called for the resettlement (...)
The Israeli army says it has "completed the dismantling" of Hamas's command structure in the northern Gaza Strip.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters that Palestinian militants are now operating in the area only sporadically and "without (...)
Venice is to ban loudspeakers and tourist groups of more than 25 people, in a bid to ease the impact of mass tourism on the Italian city.
The new rules will come into effect from June, the city said in a statement.
The use of loudspeakers have been (...)
German ex-finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who helped steer the eurozone through the debt crisis, has died at the age of 81.
An MP for 51 years in Germany's Bundestag, he played a key role in negotiating German reunification after the fall of the (...)
Turkish President Erdogan is visiting Athens Thursday, a significant diplomatic mission aimed at recalibrating the historically strained relations between the neighbouring states.
Erdogan, alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is set (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has secured the top global ranking by winning the largest number of medals in the World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY).
The competition, organized by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (...)
Daily-wage laborer Asif Maseeh wakes up each day wondering how he will feed his family of seven.
"We just pray to God that we'll find a way to eat tomorrow," Maseeh told the BBC.
The 45-year-old is among an estimated 700,000 workers who have lost (...)
The European Commission is seeking to toughen penalties for human traffickers as the bloc struggles to bring down the number of migrants lured in by networks of smugglers.
In the first ten months of 2023, the European Union saw nearly 331,000 (...)
France has announced it is banning smoking on beaches as part of a wider campaign to help people quit.
By the first half of 2024, the four-year 'plan anti-tabac' will also see lighting up prohibited outside of schools and in government-owned forests (...)
A diplomatic row has broken out between the British and Greek governments over the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles.
The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to meet Rishi Sunak in London, but No 10 cancelled the (...)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to travel to North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO member country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.
Russia is one of the 57 members of (...)