Father, awaiting Julian Assange’s arrival in Australia, says he never gave up
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, could breathe a massive sigh of relief on Wednesday after a decade-long…
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Von der Leyen lined up for second term under EU top jobs deal, sources say
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European political groups on Tuesday agreed to a deal on top European Union posts, selecting Germany's Ursula von…
EU countries agree sanctions on Belarus to plug ‘biggest loophole’ in Russian measures
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries agreed a sanctions package against Belarus on Wednesday, EU diplomats and Belgium said, to…
India’s Modi wins test of strength in parliament with election of speaker
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi passed the first big political test of his third term on Wednesday…
Swedish women’s rights groups regret Assange not questioned over sex crimes allegations
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Women's rights advocates said on Tuesday they regretted that Julian Assange was not questioned over rape and…
Dagestan political elite to be vetted for links to radical Islam after shootings
(Reuters) - The Kremlin-backed head of Dagestan on Tuesday ordered background checks to be carried out on the Russian republic's…
Anger at Macron fuels far-right support in France’s leftist bastions
LA TRINITE-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) - Florent de Kersauson, a French far-right parliamentary candidate, was leafleting in Brittany when his deputy…
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Russia’s Shoigu and Gerasimov
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Sergei Shoigu, the former Russian defence minister, and…
Behind closed doors, US reporter Gershkovich to go on trial in Russia
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial for espionage in Russia on Wednesday in a court whose…