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EuroWire, VIENNA: Austria has set out the main pillars of a national Africa strategy and stepped up diplomatic and economic engagement across the continent, as Vienna moves to build a longer term framework for relations with African partners. Official statements

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: Belgium said its spending on defence, security and resilience now equals 3.44% of gross domestic product under updated government calculations that fold broader national security costs into the total. The new measure includes direct military outlays as well

EuroWire, LONDON: The British government will introduce restrictions on social media access for children under 16, ministers said as the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill moved through its final parliamentary stages after weeks of debate over whether a direct ban

EuroWire, NICOSIA: European Union leaders said Friday that freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz is non-negotiable, sharpening the bloc’s position on one of the world’s most important energy and trade corridors as they met in Cyprus for an

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: The European Union is moving ahead with a broad set of measures to strengthen defence readiness, combining new funding, looser fiscal rules and industrial support as the bloc responds to a more demanding security environment. The effort has

EuroWire, ROME: Extreme heat is pushing global agrifood systems toward a breaking point, threatening the health and livelihoods of more than 1 billion people and cutting an estimated half a trillion work hours each year, according to a report released

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: More than 60 countries gathered in Brussels on Monday for talks aimed at reviving the two-state solution, as the European Union and Arab partners sought to keep diplomatic focus on Gaza and the occupied West Bank amid deepening

EuroWire, THE HAGUE: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday that the international system is being weakened by open violations of international law, telling a ceremony marking the International Court of Justice’s 80th anniversary that global stability is at

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: European Council President António Costa has set the agenda for an informal EU leaders’ summit in Cyprus next week, saying heads of state or government will meet on April 23 and 24 to address the worsening geopolitical environment

EuroWire, MOSCOW: Moscow on Thursday launched the T2 tram route, a 33 kilometer cross city line that city officials described as the world’s longest urban tram line, extending the Russian capital’s surface rail network from Chertanovskaya metro station in the