Politics

China has confirmed that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has visited Beijing, where he met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and pledged his commitment to denuclearising the Korean peninsula. Confirming several reports over the last two...

At least 64 people including many children were killed in Sunday’s blaze in the town of Kemerovo in central Russia. Thousands of people have been separately demonstrating against local authorities. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday...

A green and yellow train has set off a firestorm of speculation as to whether the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been in China on his first trip abroad. The visit, which would be Kim’s first to China since...

Moscow will respond harshly to a US decision to expel 60 Russian diplomats, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, has said, but added that it was still open to strategic stability talks with Washington. The US...

After Kosovo controversially deported a Serbian official, Kosovo Serb politicians said they will quit the Kosovo government and unilaterally set up an Association of Serbian Municipalities without Pristina’s involvement. Goran Rakic, the president of the main...

Ignoring protests from the European Commission and local experts and activists, Romania’s parliament passed a set of laws on Monday that are widely seen as posing a threat to the independence of the country’s justice system....

At their summit in Bulgaria, the EU and Turkey reiterated their criticism of each other, but also tried to put a positive face on the meeting despite its apparent lack of results. European Council president Donald...

As the fall-out from the spy poisoning affair continues, Albania, Croatia and Romania have joined other EU countries in expelling some Russian diplomats. Albania expelled two Russian diplomats on Monday, as the EU aspirant country joined...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met in Subotica in northern Serbia to attend the reopening of the city’s magnificent synagogue. At a meeting with Serbia’s President in Subotica, northern Serbia, to...

Kosovo authorities deported Marko Djuric, the head of Serbia’s Office for Kosovo, after police arrested him in North Mitrovica for illegally entering the country. Kosovo on Monday deported Marko Djuric, the head of Serbia’s Office for...