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The warm welcome offered to Russian President Vladimir Putin by both the government and people of Egypt, during his Feb. 9-10 visit to Cairo, and the bilateral agreements reached during the visit, show once again Egypt’s determination to remain a truly sovereign nation-state with great, legitimate ambitions for progress and for securing its realm.

While most European leaders continue to follow the dictates of the financial oligarchy, Greece’s position is clear: There can be no compromise between national survival and self-destruction. Greece cannot pay the illegitimate and onerous debt, nor can it continue with genocidal austerity. Greece is offering Europe the opportunity to convene a European Debt Conference, launch a New Deal, and work with the BRICS countries and their allies for a new economic paradigm.

To coincide with International Open Data Day, when countries across the globe will show their support for open data policies, Ordnance Survey (OS) is announcing it will launch a world-leading digital map as open data and create an engagement hub in London.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) addresses the opening of the Ministerial Meeting of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, hosted by the United States Government, in Washington, D.C.

Special Representative Bernardino León (on screen) addresses the Security Council via video link from Tripoli, Libya.

Boys play on the streets of Aleppo, capital of the north-western Aleppo Governorate, Syria.

Martin Schulz at the summit

Initial British press headlines about Jon Conway’s play “Truth, Lies, Diana,” which opened Jan. 9, 2015 in London’s West End, chiefly highlighted its strong insinuation that Prince Harry was fathered not by Prince Charles, but by James Hewitt, one-time lover of Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. That soap-opera aspect of the drama, however, is not what is most likely to have sparked hysteria at Buckingham Palace.

Initial British press headlines about Jon Conway’s play “Truth, Lies, Diana,” which opened Jan. 9, 2015 in London’s West End, chiefly highlighted its strong insinuation that Prince Harry was fathered not by Prince Charles, but by James Hewitt, one-time lover of Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. That soap-opera aspect of the drama, however, is not what is most likely to have sparked hysteria at Buckingham Palace.

A majority of European citizens cheered the role that the European Parliament played in the election of the new Commission President, says the 2014 Parlameter survey, published on Friday. More Europeans now feel that their voice counts in EU-level decision making. Over half the respondents said that EU membership is a good thing.