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The withdrawal of US troops from Syria has created a power vacuum that could play into the hands of Russia, Turkey and Iran. Time is running out for Ankara to pick a side, experts told DW....

The US is seeking allies in central and eastern Europe, teaming up with Poland for a Middle East conference in Warsaw. Ahead of the event, expat Iranians protested the regime in Tehran. Monika Sieradzka from Warsaw....

Nicolas Maduro has told Euronews that an attempt to overthrow his government is “over” as he attacked the European Union for “blindly” following the politics of Donald Trump in backing his opponents. Maduro said National Assembly...

It was a historic day for the Republic of North Macedonia on Wednesday, as the country took its place at the table of NATO allies for the first time. The country’s defence minister, Radmila Shekerinska, noted her...

  A Russian Arctic archipelago sounded the alarm on Saturday after dozens of polar bears were seen entering homes and public buildings. The Northeastern Novaya Zemlya archipelago, which has a population of about 3,000 people, asked...

Spain is set for its third general election in less than four years after rightwing parties and Catalan secessionists rejected the national budget in a key vote on Wednesday. The prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, had faced an uphill...

The government’s push to roll over EU trade deals from which the UK currently benefits has yielded agreements covering only £16bn of the near-£117bn of British trade with the countries involved. Despite frenetic efforts by ministers...

The editor of an online newspaper in the Philippines has been arrested on charges of cyber-libel as part of what the country’s journalists’ union said was a campaign of intimidation against voices critical of President Rodrigo Duterte. Speaking from...

Former senior guerrilla Lahi Brahimaj told BIRN on Monday evening that he has been invited for questioning by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, which is investigating crimes committed in Kosovo during and after the...

Nine of the 12 Catalan separatist leaders are facing charges of rebellion for their role in a failed independence bid in 2017. Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who led the campaign, is not among the defendants....