(AFP) – After a trial in absentia on allegations of planning to topple the government, a Belarusian court sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in jail on Monday, the latest action in the Belarusian government’s months-long drive to stifle dissent. Tikhanovskaya campaigned against autocratic President Alexander LukashenkoRead More →
Paris : (AFP) – Three individuals were convicted by a French anti-terror court in connection with a scheme by far-right extremists to attack President Emmanuel Macron. The three men, who belonged to a Facebook group known as the “Barjols,” were convicted of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act after theRead More →
Spain’s parliament adopted a measure offering paid medical leave to women suffering from severe period pain on Thursday, making it the first European nation to do so. The measure, which passed with 185 votes in favour and 154 against, is intended to shatter a taboo on the issue, according toRead More →
Despite a longtime rivalry between the two NATO nations, Greece’s foreign minister travelled in Turkey on Sunday to express solidarity after the country was rocked by a terrible earthquake last Monday, according to the ministry. According to video from state-run ERT TV, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias was greeted with aRead More →
(Reuters) -Alexander Novak, the deputy prime minister of Russia, told the state-run TASS news agency that Moscow is prepared to restart gas shipments to Europe via the Yamal-Europe Pipeline. As long as there is a gas deficit, the European market is still relevant, and we have every chance of restartingRead More →
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain slapped sanctions on 30 people globally on Friday, including Russian and Iranian authorities, for acts of torture, sexual abuse, and violent repression of public movements. The action comes a day after France imposed additional European Union sanctions against Iran for human rights violations in its securityRead More →
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Despite strikes on Ukraine’s power system and other crucial winter infrastructure, US intelligence expects the slowed tempo of combat to continue in the coming months and finds no sign of a diminished Ukrainian determination to resist, according to the Director of National Intelligence on Saturday.Read More →
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian soldiers moved in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, blasting important cities and intending “to destroy everything there,” as Moscow signalled it was preparing for a long war with its neighbour. Zelensky grieved the thousands of Ukrainian men and women who have died three months after RussiaRead More →
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu reviewed areas of mutual cooperation, including as commerce and investment, development and education, and international forum partnership. They met on the fringes of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual conference in Davos, according to a news release from theRead More →
On Saturday, Russia cut off gas supplies to Finland, escalating a dispute with the West over energy costs, and intensified an offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Russia is mounting what appears to be a significant offensive in Luhansk, one of two provinces in Donbas, after ending weeks of resistanceRead More →
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