Eurasia

Bulgaria has asked for an additional EUR 6 M in order to cope with the ongoing refugee influx, Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev revealed on Monday. Yovchev, who attended an emergency cabinet sitting over the refugee crisis, told reporters

Faced with a depleting fleet of submarines, India is expected to acquire on lease a nuclear submarine from Russia, a deal for which may be finalised during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit there on Sunday. The move to acquire the second nuclear submarine from Russia comes two months after the …

The US will use a Romanian airbase on the Black Sea as a transit point for its troops leaving Afghanistan as it winds up operations at another base in Kyrgyzstan, the Pentagon said. The agreement on using the Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase was reached at a meeting at the Pentagon yesterday between US Defence Secretary Chuck …

The US condemned Syrian regime for its siege of suburbs in Damascus, calling on government “to allow immediate and unfettered humanitarian access to these areas,” particularly on Muadamiyet Al-Cham, where residents have been without “basic necessities” for nearly a year.

Recent developments in Egypt, Libya and Syria are on the agenda of the formal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Luxembourg on Monday. According to EU sources, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton will brief the ministers about her recent trip to Cairo.

A SUICIDE bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 tons of explosives killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens in the Syrian city of Hama yesterday. The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road on the outskirts of the city in central Syria, the SANA …

Egyptian state media say top security officials are testifying behind closed doors in the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak, who faces charges related to the killings of around 900 protesters

The national dialogue will officially begin next October 23, Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Hassine Abassi said on Friday. “We are doomed to the same fate; mainly in implementing the roadmap, finding a common ground and overcoming all obstacles”, Abassi said at the end

Thirteen members of the armed terrorist group holed up in Mount Touayer, Gbollat in Beja, have been killed so far. Seven charred bodies were found during the search operations, bringing to thirteen the number of terrorists killed to date. Other members of the same terrorist group were arrested while more …

Germany has given the green light for the opening of the 22nd chapter in the EU accession negotiations. The formal launch of talks regarding the chapter on regional policy, which was delayed until after the release of the 2013 EU progress report