Senior officials in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office see only a 30 to 40 percent chance that there will be a Brexit trade agreement with the European Union due to an impasse over state aid rules, The Times reported. The United Kingdom left the EU on Jan. 31, turning its back...

The Palestinian group Hamas on Friday criticized Bahrain for opening its airspace to flights between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. "The help of some countries to the UAE in implementing its normalization agreement with Tel Aviv, supports the [Israeli] occupation to implement its...

Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus, has been diagnosed with the early stages of double pneumonia, ANSA newsagency reported Friday. Double, or bilateral, pneumonia affects both lungs and can make breathing difficult. The...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis Friday said Turkey should drop "threats" against his country if talks on reducing tension in the eastern Mediterranean are to begin. "Let threats go away so that the contacts can begin," Mitsotakis said as he met a visiting senior member of the...