Europe

British PM Johnson accepts Queen invitation to form new government after thumping election win

Boris Johnson arrives for an audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, who invited him to become Prime…

UN Refugee Agency Calls For Intensified Support For Displaced Afghans

GENEVA, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The UN refugee agency UNHCR, appealed for intensified support for displaced Afghans, saying that, Afghans…

Former Turkish PM Forms New Party

ANKARA, Dec 14 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey’s former Prime Minister and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ahmet…

EU leaders prepare for Brexit after Johnson win

Irish PM Leo Varadkar [C} along with other EU leaders at the EU summit BRUSSELS, Dec 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — European…

Europe tells US to back off over Russian gas pipeline

Incoming pipelines leading to the Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal peninsula in the Arctic circle BRUSSELS, Dec 113 (NNN-AGENCIES)…

US Pres Trump congratulates UK’s Boris Johnson on ‘great’ election win

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) —  US President Donald Trump congratulated UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on…

Update: Election results 2019 – Boris Johnson returns to power with big majority

LONDON, Dec 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street with a big majority after the Conservatives swept aside…

France to take 400 asylum-seekers from Greece

Migrants rescued in the Mediterranean as they attempted to make the precarious sea crossing to Europe ATHENS, Dec 13 (NNN-AGENCIES)…

US Senate passes resolution recognizing Armenian genocide

WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Senate unanimously passed a resolution that formally recognizes the Ottoman Empire’s mass killings against…

Russia expels 2 German diplomats in tit-for-tat retaliation

Russian embassy in Berlin MOSCOW, Dec 13 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday declared two employees of the…