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Germany is pledging a further 300 million euros ($326 million) in aid for Syrians through the United Nations and select organisations, said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, ahead of an EU-led donor conference in Brussels. More than…

Iran will respond to US President Donald Trump’s invitation to talks after proper scrutiny, the foreign ministry said on Monday, accusing Washington of not matching actions with words. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and…

Iran's foreign ministry has summoned the envoys of Britain, France and Germany over what it called a "misuse of the UN Security Council to hold a closed-door meeting" over Tehran's nuclear programme, Iranian state media reported. Britain…

Turkey's foreign minister, defence minister and the head of the MIT intelligence agency are in Damascus on a working visit, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said, without providing details. The visit follows the outbreak of sectarian…

The presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have signed a deal on demarcating their shared frontier, seeking to end a long-running border conflict that has seen dozens killed in skirmishes in recent years. The two sides clashed…

Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Druze communities in Syria over the past few weeks, its foreign ministry said, in a further sign of Israel's support for the minority group. "In an operation conducted over the past few weeks, 10,000…

Finland and Ukraine have signed a bilateral defence cooperation agreement, Finland's defence ministry said. The two countries have agreed to deepen their defence cooperation, including on armaments, exchange of intelligence as well as…

Greece's former parliament speaker Constantine Tassoulas, a lawyer and lawmaker of the centre-right ruling party, was sworn in as the new president. Tassoulas, 66, was nominated by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the large…

A narrow majority in the Dutch parliament has urged the government not to join recently agreed EU plans to strengthen European defence through laxer fiscal rules and joint borrowing. European leaders including Dutch Prime Minister Dick…

An Argentine court has started its trial of seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona, at age 60. Maradona was under the care of those professionals when he had a cardiac arrest in a…