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Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to answer reporters’ questions about Turkey blocking NATO talks on Sweden and Finland’s membership bids as he arrived at the UN for a Global Food Security Ministerial event on Wednesday.Turkey has...

Moscow: Russia has declared 27 Spanish diplomatic staff "personae non gratae" in response to Spain's expulsion of Russian diplomats last month, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.The ministry summoned Spanish Ambassador to Moscow Marcos Gomez Martinez on Wednesday to...

London: The annual inflation rate in the United Kingdom climbed to 9% in April from 7% a month earlier, hitting a 40-year high, the UK Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.The new data suggested that the inflation indicator...

Strasbourg: The Council of Europe said on Wednesday that its Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic had called on the UK government not to allow the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States."In a letter, published...

Tokyo: Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved a plan to discharge radioactive wastewater from the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said that once opinions on the matter from the public...

Washington: The United States is going to ease some economic sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to encourage resumed talks between Caracas and the opposition, Associated Press reported on Tuesday, citing US officials.The move will allow Chevron Corp. to...

London: London will amend the post-Brexit trade arrangements known as the Northern Ireland Protocol in the coming weeks, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday.The Northern Ireland Protocol has long been a stumbling block in the relations between...

Washington: The United States has experienced at least 11 near misses between US craft and so-called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray said in a congressional testimony on Tuesday.“We have not had a collision,...

Moscow: Russia has decided to withdraw from the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday."In response to the hostile actions, Russian Foreign Minister S.V. Lavrov sent a message to the ministers of...

Brussels: All EU member states will support Sweden and Finland in joining NATO, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday."We will talk also about the demand from Finland and Sweden to become members of NATO, they...