LONDON (AA) – The European Commission has announced the launch of a humanitarian air bridge operation to deliver critical health care and essential supplies to those most in need in Syria. This initiative coincides with increased humanitarian funding from the EU, underscoring its commitment to addressing the volatile and challenging situ...
LONDON (AA) – The EU on Thursday announced additional humanitarian aid worth €30 million ($33.1 million) for Lebanon, bringing the total to over €100 million for 2024. The aid will help those most in need in Lebanon which comes in addition to the €10 million already announced on Sept. 29, a European Commission statement said. […]...
CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has announced that his country has signed 35 agreements and memoranda of understanding worth €67.7 billion ($72.4 billion) with European companies and institutions. Madbouly was speaking at the conclusion of the Egyptian-European Investment Conference in Cairo. The conference, held Sa...
CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has warned of an “unprecedented conflict” in the region, calling for international intervention to prevent it and urging collective efforts for cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, the presidency said in a statement. This came during Sisi’s meeting with European Commission P...
GENEVA (AA) – Far-right parties have made significant gains in the EU parliamentary elections, although the mainstream parties retained control of the 705-member parliament. The turnout in the European Parliament elections is predicted to be %48.8. According to the latest data, Luxembourg holds the highest voter turnout with 82.3%, while...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief has said that he noticed a “clear lack of empathy for what’s happening in Gaza,” from the conservative European People’s Party. Speaking at a Socialist Party campaign event in Madrid ahead of the EU elections, Josep Borrell criticized EU Commission President Ursula von de...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The EU and China have responsibilities to work for peace and security, and find solutions to global challenges including in the Middle East, an EU leader said on Thursday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Beijing and the European bloc need “to do everything possible to work for a two-state [&h...
Strasbourg, France – – AFP EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has said that there is “no excuse for hitting a hospital full of civilians” in Gaza, but did not apportion blame for the blast. The European Commission president told EU lawmakers the “facts need to be established” on the the Gaza hospital strike. Isra...
Beijing, China — AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that a plan by Israel to evacuate more than one million people out of northern Gaza was “utterly impossible to implement”. Israel warned residents in the area on Friday to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against the impoverished, besieged territo...
Brussels, Belgium — AFP The president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has said she believes the Israeli killings on Saturday in the Hamas attack were motivated by anti-Semitism. “October 7 is a day that will go down in global infamy,” she said on Wednesday, referring to Hamas’s Operation Al Aqsa Flood that st...
