Europe

Paris: President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance Ensemble is leading the French legislative elections without winning the absolute majority in the new National Assembly, French news channel BFMTV reported on Sunday. According to estimations by…

Paris: French electors will vote on Sunday to elect members of the country's National Assembly with President Emmanuel Macron facing a tough challenge from the Far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, BBC reported. Macron, who had once again won the…

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's ethics adviser has quit a day after saying there was a "legitimate question" about whether Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules over PartyGate, BBC reported on Thursday. Lord Christpher Geidt said that…

Paris: The Ensemble coalition of French President Emmanuel Macron has outpaced the rival New Popular Environmentalist and Social Union (Nupes) of Jean-Luc Melenchon by a slim margin. Ensemble was polling at 24.54 per cent after 64 per cent of…

Brussels: Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia and Estonia will call on Tuesday for the confiscation of Russian assets frozen by the European Union to fund the rebuilding of Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, a joint letter written by the four showed on Monday.…

BERLIN: A senior NATO official says Russia’s military advance in Ukraine appears to be faltering and he expressed hope that Kyiv can win the war. Top NATO diplomats are meeting Sunday in Berlin to discuss providing further support to Ukraine and…

HELSINKI: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned his Finnish counterpart Saturday that relations between the two neighbours could be "negatively affected" if Finland follows through with plans to apply for NATO membership. The Kremlin's press…

France’s president warned Monday that decades could pass before Ukraine joins the European Union, and proposed a new political organisation to bring together countries on the continent that share EU values but are not part of the bloc. During a…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday to take a “powerful step” and visit Kyiv on May 9, the date when Russia commemorates the Soviet Union’s victory in World War Two. He offered the invitation to…

With the Russian military still struggling, Western officials and Ukraine’s traumatized residents are looking with increased alarm to Russia’s Victory Day holiday on May 9 — a celebration of the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany — that President…

Russian forces battled on Wednesday for control of the last stronghold in Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said, and the European Union proposed tough new sanctions against Moscow including a phased oil embargo. Mariupol…

Underlining the “shared values of freedom and democracy and rules-based order” with Nordic countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the situation in Ukraine with the Prime Ministers of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland at the…

Nearly every day, Kamal Mohamad calls home to his parents in Iraq from the converted military barracks on the outskirts of Folkestone, a coastal town in Kent, southeastern England, where he is awaiting a decision on his asylum claim. “My dad…

Paris, April 11: French President Emmanuel Macron won the first round of the French election held on Sunday, the BBC reported on Monday. He will be facing off with far-right rival Marine Le Pen for the presidency for a second time. While Macron…

Paris/Berlin, March 12 (UNI) Russian president Vladimir Putin is "determined" to achieve his objective in Ukraine, said an Elysee source on Saturday after Saturday afternoon phone call among French President Emmanuel Macron, German…

EU countries offered over $500mn aid for Ukraine to meet 'war expenses'

Meanwhile, President Zelenskyy says, no longer interested in NATO membership

Berlin, March 8 (UNI/Xinhua) Two German ministries led by Green Party politicians, Robert Habeck and Steffi Lemke, on Tuesday spoke out against extending the operating times of the country's remaining nuclear power plants, despite possible energy…

New Delhi, March 5 (UNI) Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday met Russian President Vladimir Putin at Kremlin to discuss the ongoing crisis in the region, Russian media outlets reported. This was an unannounced visit by the Israeli…

Kyiv, March 4 (UNI) Ukrainian emergency services on Friday said the Russian troops have not allowing them to extinguish the fire at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. "The occupiers are not allow the SES units (Ukrainian public rescue teams) to…