A Lebanon-based buyer rejected the first grain shipment out of Ukraine via the Black Sea, according to the Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon. “According to the information of the shipper the final buyer in Lebanon refused to accept the cargo due to delay of delivery terms (more than 5 months),” the embassy tweeted, adding that “the […]
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed Monday to overhaul the country’s intelligence service after a spying scandal, but was immediately accused by a top opposition figure who had his phone bugged of trying to “buy time.” Opposition parties rounded on Mitsotakis, who was making his first public appearance after a ballooning wiretap scandal forced the […]
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As the city emerged from a 54-hour lockdown, the governor of the Mykolaiv region declared the operation a success, saying that five people had been arrested.
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Poland’s de facto leader Jarosław Kaczyński is vowing that his government will take no further steps to meet the European Commission’s rule of law demands to unlock €35 billion in grants and loans from the EU pandemic relief program. “We have shown maximum goodwill, but concessions have yielded nothing,” Kaczyński told the pro-government Sieci news […]
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Concerns are rising for a beluga whale which has been spotted in France’s Seine River far from the cold Arctic waters it is more suited for. The whale has refused food and appears emaciated, a local official said on August 6.
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MEPs backed Mario Draghi’s call to reform the EU to guarantee sustainable economic growth, during a “This is Europe” debate in Strasbourg on 3 May.
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Now that summer is in full swing in North America, people have been asking one of our favorite GMO questions again. Let’s clear up a point of confusion: there are no commercially available GMO watermelons! Like all living things, the crops we eat have chromosomes inside the nucleus of their cells. This is where their genetic information is […]
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Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was the first EU leader to address the European Parliament in the “This is Europe” series of debates, on 9 March. Opening the debate, Parliament President Roberta Metsola said: “We need to re-assess the European Union’s role in this new world. We need to boost our investment in defence and […]
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The accord paves the way for national reconciliation talks and democratic elections. However, it was snubbed by the main rebel group responsible for the death of Chad’s previous leader.
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RIGA – In July 2022, compared to July 2021, the average level of consumer prices in Latvia increased by 21.5 percent, according to the lat……
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