Middle East

The president will make stops in Israel, the West Bank and then Saudi Arabia, where he’ll seek to rebuild relations just a year after vowing to make the kingdom a “pariah.”

‘Difficulties’ have been overcome, says European Commission president.

Moscow has a parallel version of events in which Ukraine is responsible for the closure of the port of Odesa.

Kremlin’s Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with Turkish foreign minister in Ankara on Wednesday.

Europe should brace for the result of a ‘catastrophic rise in prices of basic products’ caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine, says president.

EU plan to export grain by road and rail will barely move a fifth of regular food supplies.

Turkey’s demand that Sweden and Finland extradite 33 people looks set to heavily delay NATO membership bids by Stockholm and Helsinki.

World leaders haven’t learned their lesson from past food crises, experts warn.

Funding cuts and staffing turmoil at the Foreign Office are scaling back the UK’s international ambition.

Russia has planted mines in millions of hectares of the world’s most fertile soil.

Oslo’s plan to boost gas extraction to help Europe ditch Russian gas is a ‘strategic’ mistake, says the left-wing opposition.

EU farm chief warns Russia wants to portray itself as feeding the poor, while it destroys Ukraine’s farmland.

Gas supplies from the southern corridor can help Europe avoid dependence on Russia, but they are no silver bullet.

Agricultural companies have avoided sanctions and censure while continuing to work in Russia.

Increase ‘driven by large rises in wheat and all coarse grain prices largely as a result of the war in Ukraine,’ says UN body.

Unblocking Ukraine’s seaports ‘is the only solution’ to country’s trade crisis, minister says.

The approach reflects a European phenomenon aid workers say is discriminatory, but that authorities defend as simply following the law.

Negotiations are ongoing to revive agreement that would see Tehran give up its ambitions to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for the removal of US sanctions.

The Commission announced plans to grow more food this year. Farmers and green groups aren’t convinced.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has dramatically upended Greece’s long-standing aversion to getting involved in foreign conflicts.

World Food Programme flags famine risk in Africa and the Middle East as Ukraine war hits supplies.

The British prime minister’s trip to the country was about pleasure as well as business.