Bucharest, July 27 (IANS) Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said Monday that a member of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest had been declared undesirable (persona non grata) and ordered to leave the country within five days. The Foreign Ministry summoned the Ambassador of Russia to its headquarters upon the instructions of Romanian Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Toiu.“The summoning came as a firm response to the repeated violations of Romania’s airspace between 24 and 26 July 2026, d…
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Brussels, July 27 (IANS) The European Union’s latest strategic assessment on the bloc’s security priorities and rapidly-changing geopolitical scenario has slammed China for seeking to increase its influence in Europe and positioning itself to win systemic competition, combining industrial scale, technological ambition, and global reach while exploiting instability. In the document titled ‘Common Understanding – The Threats and Challenges We Face: Assessment of the EU’s Strategic Environment’…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Pakistan is facing renewed pressure over its continued access to the European Union’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) trade benefits, with the latest monitoring report raising serious concerns over the country’s human rights record, governance standards and implementation of international commitments, according to a report.A report published in Business Recorder flagged persistent issues relating to the rule of law, freedom of expression, enforced disappea…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) While Beijing’s relations with the European Union (EU) remain strained due to China’s growing trade surplus, the Communist country has been cleverly cultivating several individual members of the EU bloc to step up its exports, according to an article in Financial Times.In the first half of this year, China’s trade surplus with the EU, which hit 360 billion euros in 2025, rose another 24 per cent year-on-year. Beijing is also quietly leveraging relations with count…
Islamabad, July 27 (IANS) The United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP) on Monday called on the Pakistani authorities to exercise restraint and refrain from using force against peaceful protesters participating in the Long March organised by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) from Rawalakot to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir (PoK).Citing reports, the UKPNP claimed that over 40 people lost their lives since June 5 amid ongoing unrest in the occupied territory.This march came …
Tehran, July 27 (IANS) Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on said Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea “cannot go unanswered.”In a post on the social media platform X, Araghchi accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of ordering “a blatant UN Charter violation done at Israel’s behest to drag Europe into its war.”He said he had “made clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED” in phone calls with European Union foreign policy chie…
Tehran, July 27 (IANS) Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov condemned Ukraine’s “illegal” attack on an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea during a phone call on Sunday, according to Iran’s foreign ministry.Araghchi condemned Ukraine’s move as a “dangerous adventurism and clear violation of the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter,” stressing that Iran would decisively defend its national security and interests, the ministr…
Bucharest, July 26 (IANS) Romanian Air Force pilots have shot down a third drone that entered Romanian airspace without authorisation.According to the Ministry of National Defence of Romania, the drone was safely shot down 12 km northeast of Sulina, within Romania’s territorial waters.Romanian President Nicusor Dan congratulated the pilots for their work and called Russia’s actions “inadmissible and intolerable” for violating Romania’s airspace.”A new drone was shot down this morning, at 10:13 a…
Paris, July 26 (IANS) More than 220,000 people have been evacuated from the Gironde department in southwestern France as devastating wildfires continue to spread, local prefecture authorities said on Sunday.Late Saturday, Gironde authorities ordered the evacuation of an additional 55,000 residents on the outskirts of Bordeaux. The fires in Gironde have burned at least 42,000 hectares of land so far, Xinhua news agency reported.The raging fires have also caused severe transport disruptions. Frenc…
Washington, July 25 (IANS) US President Donald Trump defended his administration’s latest tariffs, saying they would withstand legal challenges and crediting the duties with attracting trillions of dollars in investment to the United States.Speaking during a wide-ranging White House question-and-answer session following an event on civilian nuclear energy, Trump dismissed concerns over the legal basis of the administration’s latest tariff actions and said his trade agenda was producing unprecede…