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US President Joe Biden has officially announced that he will seek a second term in the 2024 presidential election, according to a campaign video posted online.
The World Health Organization sounded the alarm yesterday regarding Sudan, as a group of militants took control of a laboratory with samples of diseases such as polio and measles, creating an "extremely dangerous" situation.
The first 17 Greeks freed from Sudan landed on Greek soil yesterday morning. Among them a wounded man who underwent surgery on his legs and children.
An experimental blood test may be able to detect a dozen different types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy, including some that are particularly difficult to detect, according to a preliminary study.
India will become the world's most populous country by mid-2023, surpassing China, according to estimates released by the United Nations.
The investigation into the circumstances under which Maradona took his last breath continues, with eight of the doctors and nurses who looked after the Argentine going on trial for simple manslaughter with possible intent.
Authorities in parts of India have closed schools for a week after recording extremely high temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius.
Australian researchers have developed a new flexible robot that has the ability to print living cells inside patients' bodies. 3D printing makes it easy to create tissues precisely in the size and shape required.
Sudan has turned into a vast battlefield as the war for power continues and the world is under lockdown in the capital Khartoum.
It will also legalize the acquisition and possession of up to 25 grams of recreational cannabis for personal consumption.
Four rooms, exercise area, etc. The house presented by NASA yesterday, Tuesday, looks ordinary, but from June four people will be locked in it for more than a year to attempt a simulation of life on Mars.
Renewable energy generation (wind and solar) reached 12% of the total in 2022, setting a new record, but lagging behind coal-fired electricity generation and more broadly fossil fuels, which remain the main source of electricity across the world, according to a report by energy think tank Ember.
In an extensive interview with the Welt newspaper, Martin Erdmann, former German Ambassador to Turkey during the period 2015-2020, pointed to the "end of the Erdogan era regardless of the result of the elections on May 14".
The injury of a Serb from a shooting in northern Kosovo is causing new tension in Belgrade-Pristina relations.
Ukraine has been forced to modify some of its military plans ahead of a long-awaited counterattack due to a leak of classified U.S. documents, CNN reported, citing a source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Twenty-four hours after the huge explosion that blew up a four-story building in Marseille, rescue teams have discovered a third body in the debris, out of the eight people considered missing.
"The Social Democratic Party (SPD) is no longer the natural partner of the Greens," the head of the party's Parliamentary Group, Anton Hofreiter, said in Germany.
Almost 1,000 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the space of 24 hours, the Italian news agency ANSA reported yesterday.
At least one person was killed and 30 injured, several seriously, when a passenger train carrying about 50 people derailed in the Netherlands early Tuesday after hitting a crane on the track, Dutch emergency services said.
Belgian police raided the headquarters of the European People's Party (EPP) in Brussels yesterday, a source familiar with the matter told EURACTIV.com.
With countermeasures, the Kremlin warns, after Finland's accession to NATO, with the Russian side arguing that the expansion of the alliance is a "blow to its security".
Poland has delivered the first promised MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, a Polish presidency official said yesterday, following a similar announcement by Slovakia in late March.
Paris will ban electric skates from September 1, the mayor of the French capital announced after citizens voted to remove them from the city's streets. However, the management and rental companies of the electric skates expressed hope to overturn this plan.
The latest figures from the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers rank Greece in last place among the countries of the European Union regarding the age of the car fleet.
Emmanuel Macron announced that he expects from the French government a bill on the "end of life" (ie euthanasia) in France "by the end of the summer", after receiving the conclusion of the Assembly of Citizens that discussed the issue during the last months.
Finland will become the 31st member of the Atlantic Alliance today, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced, confirming the announcement made by the Finnish presidency.
The suspected Chinese spy balloon that was spotted over the US and subsequently shot down was able to collect signals intelligence from US military sites, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to postpone the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallad, a dismissal announced more than a week ago.
European gas prices rose as strikes continued in France against a reform of the country's pension system and ahead of a cold wave expected to hit much of the continent.
After the Catholic Easter week, Spain is expected to deliver six Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine, according to Defense Minister Margarita Robles.
On April 14, the Constitutional Council of France is going to decide on the pension reform, which has caused a lot of reactions.
Vladimir Putin said yesterday that international sanctions against Moscow over its attack on Ukraine "may" have a "negative" impact on the national economy in the "medium term", having nevertheless boasted in recent months of Russia's adjustment to it the new situation.
The training exercise called Firestorm, coordinated by Europol with nine European states, is reported in the French newspaper Le Figaro, noting that the exercise in question recalls a major threat that, after the wave of Islamist attacks in the 2010s, continues to preoccupy Europe.
Israel's defense chief, whose ouster by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought the country's political crisis to a head, is staying in his post until further notice, aides said yesterday, a situation that shows the government has frozen all action to to regroup.
France was in turmoil for another day with unions calling for strikes and demonstrations over pensions.
Since 13.00 yesterday, thousands of people are demonstrating in front of the Parliament in Jerusalem, while a counter-demonstration is organized in the evening. Demonstrations against the reform are taking place simultaneously in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
A Bloomberg report refers to Greece's current performance, compared to the period of the great crisis - when the Grexit scenarios had emerged - stressing that "Greece's economic recovery is validated by its low borrowing costs" and with Greek bonds knowing the "world's best performers".
French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday that he does not intend to dissolve the National Assembly, reshuffle his government, or call a referendum to quell popular protest, people who attended a meeting at the Elysee Palace told AFP.
The Kremlin has ordered officials involved in preparations for Russia's 2024 presidential election to use Apple iPhones over concerns that the devices are vulnerable to Western intelligence services, Russian business newspaper Kommersant reported on Monday.
The Foreign Ministers of Greece and Turkey met in Brussels and made a mutual agreement to support the candidacies of the two countries to the UN and the International Maritime Organization.
"The social partners have a say and a role in the irreversible course of the Balkans towards Europe, because they are not only the representatives of the living economy, but also the vanguards of the effort for the European Balkans", emphasized the vice-president of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, during the his speech at the Summit of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) of South-East Europe, held in Thessaloniki.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been in Moscow since Monday morning, on his first visit to Russia since 2019. Xi held an informal meeting with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin at noon, ahead of today's official contact, together with their delegations.
The European Union yesterday approved spending 2 billion euros to buy and ship ammunition for Ukraine's artillery, European diplomatic sources told AFP.
Weakened by the French National Assembly's push for pension reform without a vote, Emmanuel Macron and his prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, are facing impeachment motions from the opposition and street anger that threatens to grow.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias went to New York on Wednesday, from Montreal, where he was on a visit to Canada, according to a related announcement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Children and young people were among those tortured by Iran's security forces during the country's bloody crackdown on mass protests since September, Amnesty International has said in a report released to the public.
The Greece-Israel Defense Cooperation program for 2023 was signed, on Wednesday in Tel Aviv, by the director of the Directorate of International Relations of the Greek Defense Ministry, brigadier general Nikolaos Holeva and the head of the Department of International Cooperation of the General Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces, colonel Gil Dolov.
Germany has formed an alliance with Italy and some eastern European countries against the planned phase-out of internal combustion engines in cars in the European Union from 2035, as it prepares to launch a counter-proposal.
The next Federal Parliament is expected to shrink by 106 MPs, according to the change to the electoral law planned by the governing coalition.
New polls show Turkish opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu leading President Tayyip Erdogan by more than 10 percentage points in the May 14 presidential election.
