Bloomberg Poland plans to keep its 2017 budget deficit below the European Union’s limit of 3 percent of gross domestic product even as a report showed the government revising down its outlook for economic growth. The shortfall is planned at 2.9 percent of GDP, the Finance Ministry said on its Twitter account on Monday. That compares with a 2.6 ...

  Brussels / AFP Turkey said on Monday the Syrian border region must be “completely cleansed” from the IS group, after a weekend suicide bombing in Gaziantep blamed on the extremists left at least 54 dead. In a sign of a key battle to come, Syrian rebel fighters have amassed on the Turkish side of the border in preparation for an ...

  Tripoli / AFP Fighters of Libya’s unity government, backed by US air strikes, have recaptured more ground from extremists holed up in the centre of the coastal city of Sirte, loyalist forces said on Monday. “Our forces have retaken the internal security building used as a prison by the IS” group, as well as a courthouse, the Al-Naga district ...