Michael Kitching

Poland wants the EU to work on a 'Marshall Plan' for Belarus. According to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the aid package must include at least one billion euros in financial aid. He wants to discuss this at the EU…

Many new bike lanes in Paris, which have been hastily opened for the mass cycling by commuters during the COVID pandemic, will be made permanent, the city's mayor said. After years of expanding the network of cycle paths in the…

The stock exchanges in New York opened higher on Tuesday, building on the good gains from the day before. Sentiment on Wall Street is supported by strong macroeconomic data from China, among other things. In addition, investors'…

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko landed in the Russian coastal city of Sochi on Monday around 10 a.m. for consultations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The two meet for a working meeting on strategic…

After the arrest of opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova, the democracy movement in Belarus called for new nationwide mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday. In the capital Minsk, a "March of the Heroes"…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has criticized the role of asylum seekers in the fires that reduced the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos. The head of government criticized the "attitude of some migrants" who allegedly started…

The painful incident with the linesman at the US Open continues to haunt tennis player Novak Djokovic. The Serb felt compelled to call his fans to order because, on social media, they scolded and accused the woman of affectation.…

The stock exchanges in New York will close their doors for Labour Day on Monday. Stock market trading will resume on Wall Street on Tuesday. The indicators went even lower into the long weekend on Friday. Technology companies were…

Russia must provide "full disclosure" to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) about its production, supply and use of the poison gas novichok. This is necessary now that it has been established that…

The number of Americans turning to the government for unemployment benefits fell again last week to below 1 million. According to the US government, 881,000 applications were filed. That was more than a million a week earlier.…