Hours before the window for lodging objections closed, EU environment and energy ministers meeting in France on Friday differed sharply on a European Commission provision that would classify nuclear and natural gas energy as ‘sustainable’. Countries in the European Union had until midnight Friday to suggest modifications.

It was fined €2.4-billion for abusing its search engine dominance.

The fact that the European Commission quietly distributed the text of this proposal to member states late on Friday, in the final hours of 2021 after the much-delayed document had been twice promised earlier in the year, highlighted the rocky road to draft it.

US giant ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy signed a contract Friday for oil and gas exploration and production-sharing off the divided island of Cyprus despite Turkey’s opposition to the deal. Cypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides, Varnavas Theodosiou, CEO of ExxonMobil Cyprus, and Ali al-Mana, director of Qatar Energy’s International Upstream and...

The deal with members including the US, EU, and Saudi Arabia agreeing to new ways to help businesses.

Washington hailed Thursday's deal in a statement, saying it would "improve the transparency and fairness of processes for obtaining authorisations to provide services by professionals and firms in a wide array of fields." US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said “this initiative is the first successful WTO services negotiation in years,...

Brussels slapped fines totaling 344 million euros (390 million dollars) Thursday on Barclays, RBS, HSBC and Credit Suisse after finding the banks had engaged in a forex trading cartel. Traders at UBS were also found to have taken part, but the European Commission agreed to reduce the Swiss bank's fine...

Tourism Minister Walid Nassar said the move was aimed at preventing Beirut from being used as a departure point.

However, the recent developments show that Europe has shed this energy-supplier image of the Gulf for a more realistic and pragmatic approach to strengthen the strategic partnership between the 27-member bloc and the GCC. In the new positive climate in EU-Gulf ties, talks on the FTA are likely to resume...

Polish border guards said there were attempted crossings by two groups on what is the eastern border of the European Union and NATO -- one involving 500 migrants, some of whom threw rocks and tear gas canisters. The border guards said they had detained 45 migrants.

G7 foreign ministers urged Belarus Thursday to end a migrant crisis on its border with Poland, accusing it of callously engineering the stand-off and putting lives at risk.

Hundreds of desperate migrants are trapped in freezing temperatures on the Belarus-Poland border and the presence of troops from both sides has raised fears of a confrontation.

In Tunisia, the land dedicated to organic farming has multiplied 20-fold since 2001. In Morocco, the area of farmland certified for organic production has more than doubled in two decades.

Haugen's leak of company records has benefited from well-oiled communications machinery, powerful backers and a lucky cryptocurrency bet.

The EU and world powers are scrambling to try to get negotiations in Vienna back on track.

Governments must stop returning migrants to "non-secure countries" like Libya, the 84-year-old pontiff said, while prioritizing saving lives in the Mediterranean.

At least one in five vehicles sold in the European Union (EU) in the third quarter of the current fiscal was an electrified model as sales continued to soar while fossil-fuel cars slumped, according to sales data released yesterday by a trade organization.

European leaders heaped praise on German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday as she attended what is likely her last EU summit after a 16-year reign heavily influencing the bloc through major ups and downs.

The talks came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned of "other options" if diplomacy failed.

Enrique Mora's visit is a follow-up to consultations between the two sides on matters of shared interest, particularly Iran-EU relations, Afghanistan and the nuclear agreement, the Iranian foreign ministry said.

DUBAI: The EU aims to cooperate with the Gulf states on climate change, global access to vaccines and supporting the 'green economy', the bloc's foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell, the 27-member European Union's representative for foreign affairs, will be holding talks with officials in Riyadh, UAE and Qatar...

The Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union have agreed to revive free trade deal talks, according to EU Ambassador Patrick Simonet.

DUBAI: The European Union Tuesday welcomed the reforms taking place in Saudi Arabia and noted that "significant steps" have been taken to advance womenآ’s rights. In a statement, European Action External Service, the EU's diplomatic arm, the first-ever Human Rights Dialogue between the EU and the Kingdom held in Brussels...

Following the discovery of gas by Turkey in the Black Sea, the European Union's gas production capacity is likely to increase by 25 percent.

The US and EU have said at the UN that Iran’s new government has shown no indication it was ready to revive the nuclear accord.

The United States promised an additional $290 million but said the ultimate solution was to end the war

EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell had a conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in this regard.

Saudi Arabia has filed a World Trade Organization complaint over EU anti-dumping duties on imports of a chemical compound used to make synthetic fibers and plastic bottles.

Baghdad last week announced a suspension of flights to Belarus to stem the flow and protect its citizens who have been victims of smuggling networks.

The move comes after weeks of uncertainty at the upper echelons of the Lebanese government, even as the country sinks deeper into an economic crisis.

Erdogan has vowed ‘life will restart in Varosha’ during a visit to mark 47 years since the invasion that split Cyprus.

On a trip to the north of divided Nicosia on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said there should be "two peoples and two states with equal status." Victoria Nuland, the US under secretary of state for political affairs, voiced concern that Erdogan's remarks would have a "chilling effect" on...

Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Commission (HRC) chief Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad in a meeting with US and EU diplomats has vowed to protect human rights in the kingdom.

Greenpeace investigation finds "shocking" images of waste dumped along beaches across Adana city Turkey has been importing more plastic waste than any other country, 30% from the UK alone The Turkish government has banned the importation of most types of plastic waste after an investigation by Greenpeace revealed improper dumping...