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Bulgaria’s second largest party GERB of former long-serving premier Boyko Borissov, on Friday (August 20) became the second political party to give up trying to form a new government since last month’s inconclusive parliamentary poll. The Balkan country appears headed for yet another election, the third one this year. President Rumen Radev had asked centre-right GERB to try and lead Bulgaria after

At least 92 people have died and dozens are missing after record rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks across western Germany and neighboring Belgium, prompting a large-scale rescue effort. Swollen rivers swept through towns and villages, leaving cars upended, houses destroyed and people stranded on rooftops. In Germany, which is experiencing one of the worst weather disasters since World War II,

The French Antitrust Agency announced on Tuesday (July 13) that Google has to pay €500 million ($593 million) in fines, due to the tech giant failing to reach a deal with publishers on using their content on the platform. “The sanction of €500 million takes into account the exceptional seriousness of the breaches observed and what Google’s behavior has led to further

France and Germany proposed on Wednesday (June 23) a summit between European Union chiefs and Russian President Vladimir Putin, to try to improve relations, a meeting that would follow U.S. President Joe Biden’s summit with Putin on June 16. According to the Financial Times, diplomats representing Berlin and Paris surprised their EU counterparts by springing the proposals for a new relationship with

Swedish centre-left Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, 63, has lost a no-confidence vote on Monday (June 21) morning. The motion, which required 175 votes in the 349-seat parliament to pass, was supported by 181 legislators. Lofven, who has served as premier since 2014, is the first Swedish prime minister to be ousted by a no-confidence motion put forward by the opposition. The Social

On Wednesday (June 16) US President Joe Biden will meet Russian President Putin in Geneva for their first summit which comes amid tensions over myriad issues including cyberattacks, Ukraine, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats. “There are difficulties everywhere; nothing is easy,”  Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow on June 8. Russia has “no illusions” about

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will welcome leaders from the Group of Seven countries (G7) -some of the world’s richest democracies- in Carbis Bay, near St Ives, in Cornwall today. The UK holds the rotating presidency so has responsibility for hosting the 47th G7 summit, which will take place until Sunday. It is the seventh time the UK has hosted the G7