EXCLUSIVE: Creative Europe has come one step nearer after the 27 EU leaders agreed on Friday in Brussels to an overall $1.3tn (€960bn) budget for 2014-20. “I doubt we will get as much as we want, but I am sure we will get more than at present because of the additional activities planned in the new Creative Europe programme,” Doris ...

AMMAN, Jordan — In a listless border town, the teenager goes unnoticed, one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the Syrian civil war, dashing across villages and farms to land in Jordan, just five miles from home. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors But ...

Two Ghanaian nationals, according to officialdom, have been cited in the controversial gold transaction initially said to have been between the Government of Ghana and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The two, Peter Bedzrah and Fredrick Kojo Essumang, according to a statement signed by the Information Minister, Mahama Ayariga, operating under the corporate identity of Omanye Gold Mining Ltd from ...

The Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban militants for advocating girls’ education has been discharged from a British hospital. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the city of…

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Venezuela has cut the value of its currency against the US dollar by 32%, in an effort to boost its economy. The widely expected measure ramps up the official exchange rate of the bolivar from 4.3 to 6.3 per US dollar. It was announced after Vice-President Nicolas Maduro’s return from Cuba, where he said President Hugo Chavez gave him instructions ...

Finally, a glimmer of hope is shining from the end of the tunnel of distrust, intimidation and threats. After 33 years of wild accusations, hostile attitudes, belligerent posturing, terrorism and war planning, relations between the United States and Israel vs. their nemesis Iran, have, perhaps, reached a turning point. Maybe a catastrophic war of destruction, chaos and misery for millions ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday promised a “fair and transparent” review of a Canadian company’s plan to pipe oil from western Canada to refineries in Texas. In his first comments about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline since becoming secretary of state, Kerry said he is waiting for a review begun by his predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, ...

Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet search company over the coming year, Google announced on Friday. Schmidt will…

NEW YORK — It was a “routine blizzard” that was bearing down on them, not a superstorm, but New Yorkers couldn’t help but think about Sandy in the face of a snow-laden Nor’easter. “I think it might even be worse than Sandy,” said Chip Gomes, a construction worker who took shelter from the snow in a 7-Eleven in White Plains ...