UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that half of Syria’s population now “urgently need humanitarian aid”. He was speaking at a donor conference in Kuwait to raise funds for the worsening humanitarian crisis.

The construction of the wire fence at the Bulgarian – Turkish border will begin on January 20, Minister of Defense Angel Naydenov announced.

The European Union (EU) and Greece urged Albania on Wednesday to push ahead wide-ranging reforms ahead of the EU’s decision on whether to grant the Balkan state candidate status to the bloc. Launching the six-month presidency of the European Union by neighbouring Greece, the EU’s Ambassador Ettore Sequi said a …