The US military says it has carried out an airstrike against al-Shabaab in Somalia as the Trump administration quietly steps up efforts against the deadliest Islamic extremist group in Africa. Pentagon spokesperson Major Audricia M Harris said the strike occurred on Sunday afternoon Somalia time and the US was assessing …

Egypt’s parliament has approved a presidential decision to extend the state of emergency nationwide for another three months. President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi initially imposed the state of emergency after suicide bombings struck two Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday in an attack that was claimed by the Egyptian

Morocco’s top diplomat said on Tuesday that the United Nations is to lead efforts to end a dispute over a partially recognised state in Western Sahara that Rabat considers its territory. Speaking in Addis Ababa at his first African Union summit since Morocco returned to the bloc in January, Foreign …

NATO’s new missions in Eastern Europe, aimed at discouraging Russia from striking American allies are now “fully operational” before Russian mass drill in the region. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Thursday that the Alliance’s “forward presence is fully operational in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. This sends a …

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mali on Sunday to boost Western backing for a regional anti-jihadist force, with France urging greater support for the Sahel region amid mounting insecurity. The so-called “G5 Sahel” countries south of the Sahara – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – have pledged …

Egypt says it will host a meeting of Arab nations that have cut off ties to Qatar. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid says foreign ministers of Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates will meet in Cairo on Wednesday. He says the meeting will discuss the future …

One out of three companies in Romania will be exposed to insolvency risks if the government replaces the 16% flat tax on profit with a tax on turnover, showed a study by Iancu Guda, president of the Romanian Association of banking analysts. (Mediafax)

The unemployment rate in Romania stood at 5.5% in the first quarter of 2017, the same as in the fourth quarter of 2016, the country’s statistics board said. The jobless rate stood at 6.3% among men and at 4.4% women. By areas of residence, the jobless rate was 6.4% in …

The Governments of Bulgaria and Romania aim to modernize Danube ports, to ensure conditions for navigation and development for river transport and to build new road bridges, said Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the Romania – Bulgaria Business Forum, an event he attended together with his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev. …

President Klaus Iohannis will participate on Thursday at the “Three Seas Initiative” Summit (the Baltic -the Adriatic – the Black Sea) to be held in Warsaw where the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump will also be present, as special guest. (Agerpres)