The EU will not hold talks in Brussels on Thursday with Iran on restarting negotiations over the nuclear deal, a spokeswoman for the bloc said, contradicting a declaration by Tehran.
"At this stage we cannot confirm if or when a meeting will take (...)
Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg is set to be the country's new chancellor following the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz amid claims of corruption.
It would be an "enormously challenging task", Schallenberg said, "but I (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia has rehabilitated and reintegrated into its society around 1,000 citizens who returned from conflict zones, according to Advisor Nidaa Abu Ali, member of the Kingdom's Permanent Delegation at the United Nations, here on (...)
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has stepped down, after pressure triggered by a corruption scandal. He has proposed Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg as his replacement.
Kurz and nine others were placed under investigation after raids at a (...)
Prosecutors in Austria say Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, already under investigation in a bribery probe, is suspected of using government funds to secure favorable media coverage.
"Sebastian Kurz and nine other suspects, as well as three organisations" (...)
Oil prices continued to rise on Tuesday, a day after the OPEC+ meeting kept its supply comeback plan unchanged, with traders pricing in further the tight market conditions. The OPEC+ grouping consists of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting (...)
RIYADH — The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Sunday that the EU is the second biggest trading partner of Saudi Arabia and the biggest foreign direct investor.
"Building from this strong economic relationship, we want to go (...)
VIENNA — On the path to carbon neutrality, more than 40 countries and the European Union — representing over 70 percent of global CO2 emissions — have committed to net zero objectives, most of them by 2050. The deployment of low-carbon energy (...)
VIENNA — Experts from around the world shared how nuclear techniques are helping to preserve cultural and natural heritage, during a side event at the 65th IAEA General Conference recently.
Nuclear techniques play an increasingly important role in (...)
The Saudi delegation of the trade system, headed by the Minister of Commerce and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Competitiveness Center (NCC) Dr. Majid Al-Qasabi, met with a number of businessmen and officials from Austro-Arab (...)
The UN nuclear watchdog said on Sunday Iran had failed to fully honor the terms of a deal struck two weeks ago to allow the watchdog's inspectors to service monitoring equipment in the country.
"The (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi stresses (...)
The CIA has reportedly removed its station chief in Vienna for not responding appropriately to an outbreak of the mysterious Havana syndrome.
Dozens of US personnel in the Austrian capital and their children have reported symptoms of the syndrome, (...)
The European Union Wednesday urged Iran for full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to resolve outstanding issues and called for a quick resumption of Iran nuclear talks in Vienna.
EU High Representative Josep Borrell (...)
VIENNA — Saudi Arabia has warned that Iran's nuclear blackmail must be stopped, calling on Iran to fully comply with its Safeguards Agreement obligations.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's governor to the International Atomic Energy (...)
The UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reached a deal with Iran for the overdue servicing of monitoring equipment, creating room for broader diplomatic efforts, the agency's Director General Rafael Grossi said on (...)
Human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants are going to remain significant threats to human security, that's according to a trafficking and migrant expert working in the Middle East and Asia region for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (...)
VIENNA — The coastlines of Africa stretch across 30 000 km and are host to heavy industry, sprawling peri-urban settlements, in addition to tourism and shipping activities, all of which contribute to the growing challenge of marine plastic pollution (...)
The Global Parliamentary Summit on Countering Terrorism kicked off in Vienna on Thursday, with over 100 top lawmakers and 800 conferees from different world countries attending.
It is the first such summit to be held in partnership between the (...)
The UN atomic watchdog said on Tuesday that Iran has continued to increase its stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear weapons in contravention of a 2015 accord with world powers that was meant to contain Tehran's (...)
The Speaker of the Shoura Council Sheikh Dr. Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al-Sheikh will head the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's delegation to the Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament on Tuesday. The event will be held in Vienna, (...)
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts is in Lebanon this week to help strengthen its capability to examine the integrity of buildings impacted in last year's port explosion in Beirut.
The team is training national authorities (...)
OPEC+ countries meeting on Wednesday decided to maintain their plans for a gradual increase in oil production.
The oil ministers agreed to increase collective production by 400,000 barrels per day in October, keeping with their earlier commitments (...)
At a time when the Western, Arab and Asian worlds are watching the astonishing repercussions in Afghanistan and the horrific images from Kabul International Airport, some may overlook the events of the same gravity that's taking place in Iran, the (...)
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa said on Sunday the European Union would not set up "humanitarian corridors" for Afghan immigrants.
The prime minister in a tweeted statement said, "we will not recur the 2015 strategic mistake with respect of (...)
European powers — France, Germany and the United Kingdom — voiced grave concern on Thursday about a report that Iran had accelerated its enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade, saying this was a serious violation of its commitments.
At a time (...)
