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…
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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…
European court: Evidence Russia comitted ‘multiple’ human rights violations in Crimea
PARIS (Reuters) - Russia committed multiple human rights violations in Crimea since it annexed the peninsula in 2014, the European…
Protecting 1.2% of Earth would prevent most extinctions, study says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world's land as nature preserves would prevent the majority…