Poland will strive to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This is stated in the program of the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) in 2025. “The Polish Presidency will strive for the normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the stabilisation of the situation in the South Caucasus…
Moldova has received gas from Bulgaria via the Trans-Balkan corridor in a test mode, Vadim Cheban, acting head of Moldovagaz, said in his Telegram channel. On December 31, 2024, the purchase of natural gas in Bulgaria was successfully carried out on the Balkan Gas Hub platform for Moldovagaz JSC. The amount of gas purchased…
Annalena Baerbock and Jean-Noël Barrot hope to show a “new beginning” is possible between Europe and Syria, Euronews reports. The German and French foreign ministers travelled to Damascus to send what the German minister described as a clear signal that a “new political beginning between Europe and Syria is possible.” It is the…
After a dramatic six-hour long standoff with security, South Korean police have called off an attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol, BBC reports. The 150 officers involved found themselves helplessly outnumbered – first by the large number of pro-Yoon supporters who had gathered outside his residence before sunrise, and then by a…
A man intentionally drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. A black ISIS flag was flying from the truck’s rear bumper, and the attack is being investigated as…
At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured when a truck drove into a large crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter early on Wednesday (January 1), a city government agency said, Reuters reports. It said no further information was immediately available. Earlier CBS News, citing witnesses, reported that a…
Residents from Romania and Bulgaria can now travel freely in the Schengen area, Euronews reports. The combined 25 million residents of Bulgaria and Romania now join nearly 450 million EU citizens who already have the freedom to move around the Schengen zone, after land border checks were officially lifted. It had been a…
Reuters. France carried out missile strikes last weekend in Syria, targeting Islamic State sites in the country, French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday. “On Sunday, French air forces carried out targeted strikes against Islamic State sites based on Syrian territory,” Lecornu wrote on social media platform X. The French airstrike…
German chancellor Olaf Scholz referred to the plane crash in Kazakhstan’s Aktau, which killed 38 people. Azerbaijani aircraft was heading from Baku to Grozny but was forced to change direction. “Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine is affecting more and more innocent people – even outside Ukraine. This is demonstrated by the plane crash in…
