Oil began inching upward on Thursday after a day of losses over demand concerns linked to the Covid-19 lockdown in China. Ongoing restrictions in the country, including in the economic hub of Shanghai where tens of millions are confined to their homes, have hit transport networks but traders are balancing...

The United States has asked Qatar to supply gas to Europe if Russian supplies were disrupted due to Moscow's military operation in Ukraine and the consequent Western sanctions.

As Europe aims to wean itself off Russian fossil fuel because of the Ukraine invasion, Israel hopes to help fill the gap with gas from its offshore reserves. EU states remain divided on the time scale, but European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the bloc hopes to...

The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday in favor of the family of late Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and confirmed the unfreezing of assets blocked over a decade ago. The European Union had decided in March last year to end sanctions it had imposed on Mubarak, his wife, two sons...

The United States, in coordination with the G7 and European Union, will ban "all" new investments in Russia on Wednesday in its latest round of sanctions, a source said. The joint measures, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and alleged carrying out of atrocities, "will include a ban on...

The EU is considering to hit Russia with sanctions on oil or coal over the war in Ukraine, a top official said on Tuesday, though some countries remain worried of the potential economic fallout.

Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, who is in Israeli detention, filed a complaint in France Tuesday against surveillance firm NSO Group for having "illegally infiltrated" his mobile phone with the spyware Pegasus.

Iran has been engaged in negotiations to revive the deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indirectly.

'Russia's aggression against Ukraine is increasing the risk of famine around the world,' France's representative to the UN said.

Iran has been engaged in negotiations to revive the accord with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly and the United States indirectly since April 2021.

Abramovich was among the individuals listed under new sanctions adopted by the European Union last week.

Oil prices soared Monday as a weekend attack on Saudi facilities and discussions among European Union members over banning Russian crude raised concerns about global supplies. Top producer Saudi Arabia warned that Yemeni rebel attacks on the kingdom's oil facilities pose a "direct threat" to global supplies, while Baltic states...

The UN has described the humanitarian situation in the city as "extremely dire" with "residents facing a critical and potentially fatal shortage of food, water and medicines."

The Arab Parliament (AP) welcomed the decision by the Council of the European Union to include the Houthi terrorist militia in its consolidated black list of groups.

Palestinian National Authority has urged the European Union to overcome technical and other obstacles and resume financial support for the Palestinian Authority in light of the decline in international aid during the past years. This was discussed at a meeting between European Union’s Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Oliver...

US State Department spokesman Ned Price has said the US has announced a pause on nuclear negotiation with Iran, and that 'there is very little time remaining' to save the nuclear accord.

Melilla and Ceuta, Spain's tiny enclaves, have the EU's only land borders with Africa that attracts desperate migrants to escape poverty, violence and hunger both at home.

"Show Turkey the same sensitivity that we are witnessing towards Ukraine," Erdogan said at a press conference in Ankara.

On Friday, US President Joe Biden extended his country's measures against Russia to include sanctions on President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, including a travel ban for the two statesmen. Biden was the first world leader to announce sanctions, hours after Putin declared a "military operation" into...

US President Joe Biden announced export controls against Russia to cut off more than half of the country's high-tech imports, alongside sanctions on Russian elites and banks. The EU moved to impose "massive" sanctions on Russia's energy and finance sectors, while French President Emmanuel Macron called Putin to "demand immediate...

The European Union will send election observers to monitor Lebanon's May 15 parliamentary polls, at the invitation of Beirut's government, the bloc's foreign service said on Wednesday. The team's chief observer, Gyoergy Hoelvenyi, said in a statement it will be the fourth time the EU has sent observers to Lebanon,...

US sanctions against Russia announced Tuesday include steps to starve the country of financing, although they did not go as far as some observers had expected. Washington's announcement came after the European Union unveiled its own sanctions in a coordinated Western effort to pressure Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, a key member of the Taliban leadership, met in Doha with ambassadors from the six-nation GCC on the first full day of his latest mission.

The Ministry of Migration and Displacement (MOMD) has warned the Iraqis to avoid falling victim to fraud by companies that deceived them under the title of immigration and asylum.

The production of semiconductors, also known as chips, has become a strategic priority in Europe as well as the United States, after the pandemic choked off supply.

The dialogue discusses the new developments in trade and investment exchange.

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.

With more than half of gross final energy consumption from renewable sources, Sweden had by far the highest share among the EU Member States in 2020

The shows do not feature any Israeli actors, and Palestinians recruited to play Jewish characters are often targeted by people who think they are actually Jewish.

Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq's foreign minister said Sunday. Since November 18, the Iraqi government has organized "10 flights from Baghdad to Belarus" to repatriate its citizens, Fuad Hussein told...

During the visit, the secretary-general of the GCC will meet a number of senior officials of the European Union.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Friday that a renewed deal with Iran on curtailing its nuclear program remained "possible" as talks in Vienna advance in a "better atmosphere". "We're arriving at the end of a long process... there's a better atmosphere since Christmas -- before Christmas I was...

On 12th October 2021, the European Commission issued its first-ever NextGenerationEU green bond

The meeting was hosted at the UAE Ministry of Finance’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi.

The UAE and the European Union discussed ways of boosting bilateral cooperation between them to achieve mutual benefit across various fields. This discussion is a part of the UAE’s Finance Ministry commitment to strengthen its relations with various countries, and regional and international financial institutions. The Minister of State for...

Poland's state-owned refiner PKN Orlen announced Wednesday plans to sell oil assets to Saudi Aramco and Hungary's MOL in order to meet EU conditions for its merger with domestic rival Grupa Lotos. Saudi Aramco will buy a stake in Lotos's refinery and MOL will purchase several hundred Lotos petrol stations...

The last seven years have been the hottest on record globally "by a clear margin", the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Monday, as it raised the alarm over sharp increases in record concentrations of methane in the atmosphere. Countries around the world have been blasted by a relentless assault...

Cookies are little packets of data that are set up on a user's computer when they visit a website, allowing web browsers to save information about their session.

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.

The project will improve wastewater treatment and environmentally friendly sludge disposal.

Sudan anti-coup protesters faced tear gas at a democracy rally while General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan defended October's military takeover.

Officials have said the deal would become obsolete within weeks if Iran continued to step up its nuclear activities as it has been doing since 2019, a year after the United States left the landmark agreement and reimposed sanctions.

“Iran intends to take advantage of the EU experience to improve agricultural commerce in Iranian villages with emphasis on women’s employment,” an Iranian official said.

During 16 years in power, she navigated Germany through the 2008 financial turmoil and ensuing eurozone debt crisis, the 2015 refugee influx and then the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Palestinian Ministry of Finance and the KfW German Development Bank have signed an agreement funded by the European Union to improve the availability and reliability of water supply services in Gaza City and Jabalia. Palestinian media reports said the signing ceremony was attended by the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...

Hundreds of Iraqis, most of them Kurds, returned home last week on a voluntary repatriation flight from Belarus.

Iraq said on Friday it was drawing up lists of those among the hundreds of Iraqis blocked on the border between Belarus and Poland who wish to be repatriated voluntarily. "We are ready to organize more than one trip to provide an urgent response to anyone wanting to come home...

In the first 10 months of the year, 10,868 irregular migrants arrived in Cyprus, 9,270 having illegally crossed the island's dividing line in a "prescribed and conscious policy by Turkey", he said. The current flows added to the more than 33,000 people already illegally residing in the republic, the government...

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko accused of luring migrants from the Middle East to his country to send them across the border in retaliation for EU sanctions.

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