Venezuela announced it was ending its pursuit of restoring diplomatic ties with the United States after the Barack Obama administration’s nominee for envoy to the United Nations promised to confront …
Russia could be on course to gaining a strategically important military foothold on Cyprus as Moscow presses ahead in restoring its presence in the Mediterranean.
David Cameron has concluded a tour of the Gulf during which he launched a major drive to secure contracts to supply British-made fighter aircraft to countries in the region which …
BP has signed a landmark deal worth billions of dollars with the Russian state-run oil company Rosneft.
Croatia’s aspirations to join the European Union have suffered a significant blow after a senior German politician said the former Yugoslav republic is not ready for membership.
War never fails to leave a lasting mark on people’s lives. Since Vietnam, in the 1960s, people in their homes around the world have been spectators to conflicts courtesy of …
Western diplomats fear the Arab Spring has taken a new, and dangerous, direction with the brutal killing of the American ambassador to Libya and the furore, spreading like wildfire across …
Lakhdar Brahimi, the new United Nations envoy to Syria, has warned how difficult his job will be to try and bring an end to violence in the country, after a …
Libyans went to the polls to elect a General National Congress amid ongoing violence between the different tribes which make-up the country. The elections, the first since the Nato-engineered overthrow …
The West has no credible policy towards the conflict in Syria and the only way to stop the fighting there is to implement a political solution, a senior Russian politician …
The Euro 2012 football championships kicked off in Poland and Ukraine with political controversy threatening to overshadow the event. Britain, France and Sweden declined to send government officials to the …
Britain and Russia have agreed to hold regular face-to-face diplomatic meetings in an attempt to improve relations between the two countries which have been severely strained since the murder in …
Nato has failed to acknowledge the deaths of dozens of civilians during its air campaign against Libya in 2011, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The 76-page …
Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated on May 7 as President of the Russian Federation for a third time following his emphatic endorsement by the electorate in elections in March. Under …
The conflict in Syria has presented Turkey with an opportunity to flex its political muscle in the Middle East as Ankara attempts to capitalise on the growing strength of the …
Hundreds of Waffen-SS veterans paraded through the Latvian capital Riga in what historians fear is a blatant attempt to re-write the history of the Second World War. In what has …
Vladimir Putin has secured a third term as President of Russia after an emphatic election victory which could see the 59-year-old former KGB officer remain in office until 2024 – …
Voters in Latvia have decisively rejected a proposal to make Russian a second official language in the former Soviet republic, although more than a quarter of a million people were …
President Bashar al-Assad has claimed that the violent uprising against his rule is a result of “foreign influence and terrorism” and has pledged – to a largely disbelieving world – …
Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party has triumphed in parliamentary elections – albeit with a much lower share of the vote, prompting speculation that hispopularity is waning and his grip …
Vladimir Putin’s vision of a new Eurasian Union covering the footprint of the old Soviet Union has begun to take shape following a significant summit in Moscow. In what is …
Daniel Ortega, the one-time Sandinista leader who defied US President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, has won a landslide victory in presidential elections in Nicaragua. President Ortega, who returned to …
The strategically important central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has elected its fourth president since its independence from the old Soviet Union 20 years ago this December amid talk that it …
