Israel and Palestinian factions including Hamas have agreed an open-ended ceasefire to begin at 19h Tuesday (26 August) evening local time (17h London, 18hBrussels). The ceasefire...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday (25 August) condemned the appalling, widespread and systematic deprivation of human rights in Iraq by ISIL...
"75 years ago today – on 23 August 1939 – two totalitarian regimes signed a non-aggression pact. This pact of Nazi Germany under Hitler and the...
Today’s (22 August) expert group meeting provided the Commission and member state experts with a further chance to discuss elements relating to the impact on EU...
Opinion by Iryna Storozhenko - translated by Voices of Ukraine We are back home already. I am thinking about Nadiya. I am remembering what she said....
Ukrainian government and rebel forces are both claiming control of the small town of Ilovaisk in the Donetsk region after fierce fighting. Security forces said the...
Yesterday (18 August) and today, Commission President José Manuel Barroso expressed his concern with the security situation and condemned the shelling of a convoy of internally...