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GENEVA Ethiopia’s government decried a “neocolonialist mentality” as many Western nations sought Friday to boost scrutiny of rights abuses and violations in the conflict-torn country by creating an international team of experts to keep…

TAIPEI Addressing a group of visiting French lawmakers, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called Wednesday for greater unity among democratic nations in the face of rising authoritarianism. Tsai also said the self-governing island…

BRUSSELS Taking an act-now-ask-questions-later approach, countries around the world slammed their doors shut again to try to keep the new omicron variant at bay Monday as more cases of the mutant coronavirus emerged and scientists raced…

BRUSSELS The European Parliament urged EU states on Thursday to adopt asset freeze sanctions and a travel ban on Russian mercenary company, Wagner Group. In a resolution adopted 585 - 40, with 43 abstentions, EU lawmakers condemned in…

BRUSSELS Another week of Brexit negotiations still left the European Union awaiting a firm counterproposal from the United Kingdom on Friday to ease a standoff over how to deal with the country’s departure from the bloc. Both sides…

Brussels The European Union should urge Central Asian governments at a gathering on November 22, 2021, to increase efforts to protect human rights, at a time when Afghanistan and regional issues are high on the agenda, Human Rights Watch…

BRUSSELS The European Union must deepen ties with Taiwan and start work on an investment deal with the island, EU lawmakers said in a resolution adopted today, a move likely to anger Beijing as a similar EU-China deal struck in 2020 has…

Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading…

The European Union is making available 300 million euros in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday. The EU Commission's president said "we stand by" the people of…