The Foreign Minister said that people had given mandate to all those sitting on both sides of aisle and it was the responsibility of all of us to work for the betterment of people.

Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul Wazir on Thursday said that the accountability process has been started across the board in the country and those corrupt influential who ruthlessly looted the national wealth seemed frightened.

Dozens of Greenpeace activists on Thursday forced motorcades of EU leaders to change their route to the Brussels summit in protest against inertia on climate change.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday she was not expecting a "breakthrough" on the Brexit agreement at this week's EU summit in Brussels, adding that she would focus on the assurances over the "backstop" plan to avoid a manned Irish border.

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka declared unconstitutional the decision of President Maithripala Sirisena to dissolve the parliament, local media said Thursday.

British lawmakers will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal in January, according to a schedule published Thursday by the leader of the lower house of parliament Andrea Leadsom.

The congress of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Hamburg on December 7 demonstrated that the political party was deeply divided over migration amid the lack of any effective migration policy, a situation that stands to strengthen the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's positions, AfD's spokesman in the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs Petr Bystron told Sputnik.

US Ambassador to Hungary David B. Cornstein urged the Hungarian government on Thursday to refrain from blocking cooperation between NATO and Kiev amid the row between the neighboring countries.

British lawmakers will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal in January, according to a schedule published on Thursday by the leader of the lower house of parliament Andrea Leadsom.

An EU court on Thursday rejected the "excessively high" diesel emissions limits Brussels set just after the scandal in which German carmaker Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests.