“The landlady’s been chasing me since 2018, she says she needs the flat – now there’s an eviction notice.”Georgina Simões is a carer at a nursing home in the Portuguese capital Lisbon. She earns just above the minimum wage.Her rent, at €300 (£262) a mo…
Iraq said that an electricity grid interconnection with Jordan will start production on July 1.’Production will start with a capacity of 50 megawatts in the first phase,’ Electricity Ministry spokesman Ahmed Moussa said in statements quoted by state n…
The Home Office is launching an ad campaign targeting Albanian nationals to deter them from migrating to the UK.The adverts, which will run in Albanian on Facebook and Instagram, will warn that people will “face being detained and removed” if they make…
The Kremlin claimed on Sunday that Western countries are waging a war against Russia on ‘all fronts.'”In a broader sense, there is a war. There is a war against us on all fronts: be it the economy, interstate relations, property relations,” Kremlin sp…
Last year, just as farmer David Isermann was coming out of years of chaos created by the coronavirus pandemic, he was heading into the fields to plant his crops when the war in Ukraine started, throwing even more uncertainty into his annual farm manage…
Polling stations across Trkiye closed on Sunday as voting in the country’s presidential runoff election ended at 5 p.m. local time (1400GMT).More than 64.1 million people were registered to vote, including over 1.92 million who earlier cast their ball…
If President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is victorious in the second round of the Turkish election on Sunday, relations between Ankara and Moscow will continue to be warm – but it could be a different story if his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, wins the tight …
Saudi Arabia and the United States on Sunday called on Sudan’s warring rivals to extend their temporary cease-fire.A 7-day cease-fire between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group is set to expire on Monday. The agree…
Protesters clashed with French police in the city of Lyon on Friday, during a rally against government policies, including a highly debated pension reform. The unrest resulted in street fires and vandalized public and commercial buildings.The so-called…
Azerbaijan on Sunday celebrated its 105th anniversary of independence.Considered to be the “first democratic republic of the Muslim East,” Azerbaijan’s independence was declared by the country’s National Council chaired by Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, who …