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 day before campaigning starts for next month's tense parliamentary election amid claims of Russian interference in the pro-EU nation bordering Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet Moldova's President Maia Sandu to celebrate the country's 34th independence day as she pushes for EU membership. "This is a show of support by European leaders for Moldova as Russia ramps up its interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections," the Moldovan presidency said in a statement to AFP. Sandu and her European allies have repeatedly accused Moscow...
COX'S BAZAR, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS) - On the concluding day of the three-day international stakeholders' dialogue on the Rohingya crisis, foreign diplomats, representatives from...
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...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukraine acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that Russia's army has entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a central...
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Monday that he expects to visit China this year or shortly afterwards, noting that...
DAMASCUS, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli drone strikes killed six Syrian soldiers outside Damascus, state television reported Wednesday, updating the toll for attacks the...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed three people and left thousands more than 100,000 households without power,...
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...
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...