Tirana Ministerial: OSCE fills its empty chairs at last, and names a 2023 chair
Tirana — The OSCE closed its twenty-seventh Ministerial Council on Friday with the appointment it had been unable to make for months:…
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Diego Maradona dies at 60: Argentina begins three days of mourning for its most loved and divisive son
BUENOS AIRES — Diego Armando Maradona, the footballer who lifted Argentina to a World Cup and Napoli to heights it has never…
Douglas Stuart wins the Booker Prize: ‘Shuggie Bain’, rejected 30 times, takes fiction’s biggest award
LONDON — The Booker Prize has gone to a debut novel that thirty publishers turned down. Douglas Stuart, a 44-year-old Scottish-American fashion…
Moscow Mechanism on Belarus: a 90-page catalogue of torture, and a demand for new elections
Vienna — An independent expert report commissioned under the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism has concluded that Belarus committed massive and systematic human rights…
OSCE observers on the US vote: ‘baseless allegations’ of fraud are harming public trust
Washington — The head of the international observation mission to the United States election has delivered an unusual rebuke to a sitting…
Louise Glück wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: the Swedish Academy honours an American poet of ‘austere beauty’
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 has been awarded to Louise Glück, the American poet, for what the Swedish Academy…
Innovation helps to ensure European foods don’t cost the earth
Europe’s agri-food systems need to evolve in a world that is being transformed by technological innovation. At the same time, these vital…
Karabakh in flames: Trump, Putin and Macron issue joint plea as fighting enters fifth day
Geneva — The presidents of the United States, Russia and France issued a rare joint statement on Thursday calling for an immediate…
Bayern Munich win the strangest Champions League: a closed-door final in Lisbon crowns a perfect run
LISBON — The most unusual season in the history of the European Cup has ended with a familiar name on the trophy.…
Reimagining wastewater as a valuable resource
At the heart of the ULTIMATE project is a clear vision: to transform how Europe manages its water resources and encourage the…