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People in Bosnia and Herzegovina have started topping up the fuel tanks of their vehicles ahead of the announced price rise that will come into effect on Thursday, when a new excise tax law takes force....

Angela Merkel’s CDU has agreed with Social Democrats to set a monthly cap on family reunions. The agreement removes a major obstacle in the grand coalition negotiations. The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) took one of...

1991 was a watershed year for sports diplomacy in the Korean Peninsula. That year, South Korea and North Korea fielded joint men’s and women’s teams at the World Table Tennis Championships, as well as a joint...

Russia is set to continue its campaign of meddling in foreign elections by targeting the congressional midterm races in America, the head of the CIA has warned. Mike Pompeo, the director of the agency, told the BBC...

Leaders of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government are reportedly preparing to flee from Aden as fighters from the armed wing of a political movement demanding secession for southern Yemen seized large parts of the city after three days of fighting....

Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday reportedly pledged to help build the Belgrade-Sarajevo highway – whose exact route remains disputed between Bosnia’s two entities. Turkish President Reccep Tayip Eerdogan has promised to assist Bosnia and...

Every day, early in the morning, the former missile scientist would leave his house in Mosul. Riding buses, or on foot – he could no longer afford petrol – he’d call on friends, check on his mother...

Galleries consider moving works of art as water levels approach highest mark in over a century. Parisians have been warned to stay away from the river Seine as it continues to rise, flooding surrounding roads and...

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs and David Davis, the Brexit secretary, giving evidence to the Commons Brexit committee. Corbyn says Labour would not...

Residents will have to queue at standpipes for daily rations unless they drastically reduce consumption. Cape Town residents may lose piped water to their homes within two months if they do not act to counter the...