BELGRADE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Serbia's largest oil producer was given another 30-day reprieve from sanctions by the United States, the sixth deferral for the majority Russian-owned firm, Serbia's energy minister said Wednesday. The operator of the country's only oil refinery, the Serbian Oil Industry (NIS), has received numerous delays to the sanctions since the measures were announced as part of Washington's crackdown on the Russian energy sector. "It has been ensured that the refinery has sufficient crude oil to continue operating. We thank the US administration for its understanding," Serbian Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said. The sanctions have now been delayed until September 26, according to the ministry. Majority-owned by energy giant Gazprom, the company has successfully...
CHISINAU, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland are due in Moldova on Wednesday in a show of support, a...
JERUSALEM, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli police said Wednesday that security forces seized roughly 1.5 million shekels ($447,000) of "terror funds" during a raid...
TEHRAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Iranian forces have killed 13 militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reported Wednesday, adding they...
POREPUNKAH, Australia, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Police searched the Australian bush on Wednesday for a heavily armed 56-year-old gunman still on the run a...
BANGKOK, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom's longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on...
SARAJEVO, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Bosnia's national museum has defended a decision to donate funds from the display of a precious Jewish manuscript to...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said a team of its inspectors are "back in Iran," the...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes on the strategic Ukrainian port city of Kherson killed an 81-year-old woman Wednesday and wounded two...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump is famed as a political showman -- and during a record-breaking three hour and 16...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US tariffs of 50 percent took effect Wednesday on many Indian products, doubling an existing duty as President Donald...
N'DJAMENA, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A cholera epidemic at a camp for Sudanese refugees in neighbouring Chad has killed 68 people since it broke...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Trump administration on Tuesday suspended several employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after they publicly...