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NEW YORK - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with the FMs of Argentina, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Antigua and Barbuda, Kiribati, Botswana, the Philippines and Senegal on the sidelines of the general debate at the UN General Assembly session in New York.

Gulf oil states are using their vast wealth to build influence across the far-flung South Pacific, experts have told AFP, tearing a page straight out of China's Belt and Road playbook.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the world's biggest crude oil producers, have been ramping up efforts to shed their reputations as global climate laggards.

New Year's celebrations swept across the globe, ushering in 2023 with countdowns and fireworks — and marking an end to a year that brought war in Europe, a new chapter in the British monarchy and global worries over inflation.

Australia's new government has urged China to lift trade sanctions if it wants to reset a bilateral relationship that plumbed new depths under the previous administration.

As of Thursday, February 17, the list of countries by color zones is updated, according to which the order of entry into Bulgaria is determined.

The red zone will include France, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Cyprus, the Maldives, Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Japan and others.

From Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Acropolis, fireworks burst in skies above eerily deserted landmarks as the world ushered in the New Year with muted celebrations and said good riddance to a pandemic-ridden 2020.

Romania has managed, in a single year, the most brutal international demotion, from the 102th place in the world, to the 175th place for women's representation in Government, said on Thursday, INACO (Initiative for Competitiveness) in a press release sent to AGERPRES.

There are no reported cases of COVID-19 in several countries around the world.

Governments around the world are fighting the crippling effects of the coronavirus. But some countries have not yet faced the pandemic of COVID-19 and have not registered a single case of contagion, the Daily Telegraph reported.

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People around the world have been celebrating the New Year, welcoming in 2019 with fireworks and displays long before the U.S.

A court in Iraklio, Crete, has reversed a previous decision to convict to more than 500 years in prison five crewmen of the Baris, a freighter found packed with 586 men, women and children trying to enter Europe clandestinely in 2014.