(VOVworld) – On Tuesday, the global oil price rose as investors monitored Russia’s plan to freeze oil output. Investors expressed optimism that this will help the oil market recover
(VOVworld) – Switzerland has unfrozen Iran’s accounts following the US and EU lifting economic sanctions on Iran. From 2007 to 2012, Swiss banks blocked 12 million Swiss francs, equivalent to 11.8 million...
(VOVworld)- Many countries around the world have been suffering from chilly cold snaps over the past week. For the first time in decades, extreme weather has hit multiple regions throughout the...
(VOVworld) – The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Thursday to cut off funds for the Islamic State
(VOVworld) - The African Union has suspended Burkina Faso and imposed sanctions on leaders of the military coup. Soldiers from the elite presidential guard (RSP) stormed into a cabinet meeting on Wednesday...
(VOVworld) – The European Union (EU) decided on Wednesday, to extend the expiration of the current sanctions imposed on certain Ukrainian and Russian individuals who backed the pro-Russian separatists in...
(VOVworld) - The Nigerian army freed 178 people held by Boko Haram militants during a regional offensive near Aulari about 70km south of Maiduguri, the biggest town in northeast Nigeria.a
(VOVworld) - Israel has released the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Aziz Dweik after almost a year in prison following an army crackdown over the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers
(VOVworld) - First US operation of its kind in Syria kills Abu Sayyaf, captures his wife and frees a young Yazidi woman who appears to have been held as a slave...
(VOVworld) - Nigerian troops have freed another 234 women and children from Boko Haram’s stronghold in the Sambisa forest, the military said
(VOVworld) - The Kenyan government said Wednesday it will freeze the accounts of 86 individuals and entities suspected of financing Somalia’s Al-Shabaab terrorists, including 13 foreign exchange bureaus. Accounts...
(VOVworld) - A Turkish court has acquitted the last 62 military officers jailed over an alleged 2003 plot to oust then-prime minister Tayyip Erdogan after the judge said digital evidence was...
(VOVworld)- Opened on Thursday in Brussels, the EU Summit focused on ways to deal with the escalation of tension in Ukraine, the extension of sanctions against Russia and military aid to...
(VOVworld) – Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has criticized the EU’s policy toward Russia in the Ukrainian crisis. Kotzias said he didn’t find any separatists in Ukraine have conducted...
(VOVworld) – The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution imposing sanctions on South Sudan’s warring factions
(VOVworld)- EU Foreign Ministers called an extraordinary meeting in Brussels on Thursday to decide new sanctions against Russia due to recent tensions in Ukraine. This move will worsen the confrontation...
(VOVworld) - Boko Haram has released nearly 200 hostages, most of them women, who were kidnapped from a village in the northeast Nigerian state of Yobe. A total of 192 people were released on Friday from two...
(VOVworld) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to delay the transfer of monthly tax revenues to the Palestinians in retaliation for their application to join the International Criminal Court,...
(VOVworld) – The European Union agreed to a new package of economic sanctions against Russia at an emergency meeting on Monday
(VOVworld) - Moscow intends to present a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) claiming ‘politically motivated’ US sanctions that target local companies are hurting Russian external trade and violate WTO rules...