UN warns of worsening humanitarian situation as violence escalates
The United Nations on Friday voiced serious concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Sudan, warning that rising violence is increasing...
The European Union and Ukraine are negotiating a new agreement on agricultural import quotas, aiming to find a balance between pre-war trade limits and the temporary exemptions granted after 2022.
The European Union and Ukraine are in talks to establish new import quotas for Ukrainian agricultural products, aiming for a level between the previous trade limits and the temporary exemptions introduced in 2022, EU Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen told Reuters.
In 2022, the EU suspended duties and quotas on Ukrainian agricultural goods to support Ukraine’s export capacity amid disrupted Black Sea trade routes. That temporary measure expired on Thursday.
Starting Friday, both sides returned to the pre-war trade arrangement under the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), as negotiations on a longer-term framework continue.
“What will be negotiated will be something in between the quotas under the existing DCFTA and the autonomous trade measures - the volumes that have been exported there,” Hansen said.
The autonomous trade measures had lifted restrictions on Ukrainian imports as a form of support.
Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval said this week that Kyiv hopes to secure quotas higher than those set before 2022.
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Russian athletes will not be allowed to represent their country at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics even if a peace deal is reached with Ukraine, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry said in an interview with an Italian newspaper.
At least 47 people were killed and 112 injured after a fire broke out at a crowded bar in the Swiss ski resort town of Crans-Montana during New Year’s Eve celebrations, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Italian media on Thursday.
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Ukrainian officials reported on Friday that thousands of children and their parents were evacuated from frontline areas in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions as Russian forces continued to advance.
Yemen’s southern separatists have announced plans to hold a referendum on independence from the north within two years, a move likely to further escalate tensions as Saudi-backed government forces seek to retake territory seized by the group last month.
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck the southern state of Guerrero in Mexico.
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