The European Union and Arab League say they agree on tackling conflicts in Syria and Yemen or stalled Middle East peace efforts but were unable to approve a joint statement at talks in Brussels

Italy's interior minister is calling the French leader Emmanuel Macron 'a terrible president' who 'talks a lot and achieves little'

Cyprus' foreign minister says the U.S. will soon start lifting a decades-old arms embargo on the eastern Mediterranean island because Washington acknowledges its contribution to bolstering stability and security in the region

North Korea's top diplomat in Italy has gone into hiding along with his wife, apparently before his posting ended in November

A North Korean diplomat who defected in 2016 says a fellow envoy who reportedly has gone into hiding in Italy came from a family of diplomats, with both his father and father-in-law serving as ambassadors

Italy's foreign minister, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, will be visiting Washington from Jan. 3-4, meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department and with national security adviser John Bolton at the White House

Trump thanks Albania for expelling Iranian diplomats over alleged illegal activities

Albania says it has expelled two Iranian diplomats for allegedly engaging in illegal activities that threaten the country's security

The European Union's top diplomat is calling on Kosovo to lift tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as tensions rise between the former Serbian territory and its longtime allies, the EU and NATO

Serbia threatened a possible armed intervention in Kosovo after the Kosovo parliament overwhelmingly approved the formation of an army