Nigeria has unveiled newly designed currency notes that the West African nation’s central bank says will help curb inflation and money laundering.

The U.S. government says it will detain all imports of sugar and related products made in the Dominican Republic by the country’s largest sugar producer amid allegations that it uses forced labor.

Federal courts in Brazil have ordered a New Jersey-based fishing tour compay operating in the Amazon to cease and desist.

Australia’s Parliament has passed bilateral free trade agreements with India and Britain, leaving those partner nations to bring the deals into force.

Barcelona and large swathes of Spain’s northeast are going under water restrictions as an extended drought devastates crops and puts the pinch on human activities in the Mediterranean country.

Bulgaria will allow a Black Sea refinery owned by a Russian oil company to keep operating and exporting oil products to the European Union until the end of 2024 despite warnings by Brussels that it is against the bloc’s sanctions.

Consumers and businesses in Germany will receive subsidies to soften the blow of higher gas and electricity prices starting in January, two months earlier than originally planned.

The European Union’s top diplomat has held eight hours of unsuccessful talks with the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo.

CARACAS – Negotiators from the Colombian government and leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) began peace talks on Monday, the first major step in President Gustavo Petro’s efforts to end nearly 60 years of war.