Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar has cut all ties with the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs over her reported comparison of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to South Africa’s former apartheid system.

A group of EU lawmakers demand far-reaching economic sanctions against Israel in an effort to curb the regime's aggressive behaviour.

The British armed forces intercepted and seized a Russian oil tanker in the English Channel.

The EU’s top diplomat has condemned the growing violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank.

France and Germany are mulling proposals to overhaul the “dysfunctional” European Union’s diplomatic service, stripping powers from EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and shifting them to the European Commission and the national governments of the bloc’s member states.

France and Germany have scrapped their joint sixth-generation fighter jet project, dealing a major blow to European defense integration amid uncertainty over US support for NATO.

Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister has decried as “fraudulent” the European Union’s move to impose sanctions on Iranian individuals and institutions over the situation in the Strait of Hormuz following the US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic.