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Europe
Russia welcomes 'aspects' of new US plan to end Ukraine war
Russia has seen the latest copy of a US plan to end the Ukraine war and views some of it positively, but other points require discussion, the Kremlin said Wednesday.
By AFP
1w ago
In total, Russia has enlisted 18,800 individuals from mostly the Global South; the numbers are larger than the army of Austria, which has 16,000 active personnel and Croatia, which has 14, 325.
By Wellingtone Nyongesa, Kyiv
1w ago
By Wellingtone Nyongesa
1w ago
By AFP
1w ago
By AFP
2w ago
France's President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky Monday signed an accord for Kyiv to acquire up to 100 Rafale fighter jets and other hardware.
By AFP
2w ago
Britain's interior minister on Sunday defended plans to drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers.
By AFP
2w ago
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday was set to be freed from prison as a judge ordered his release from jail pending an appeal hearing over Libyan funding.
By AFP
3w ago
BBC Director General Tim Davie, CEO of News Deborah Turness resign after criticism over ‘misleading’ editing of a clip of US President Donald Trump.
By AFP
3w ago
Trump's comments came as the British government said it would move to strip the former prince.
By AFP
1mo ago
At least two people died and several were injured on Saturday, state media reported, in a shooting on the Greek island of Crete suspected to be linked to a family vendetta.
By AFP
1mo ago
Spanish unemployment crept up in the third quarter as the dynamic economy's service sector shed seasonally dependent jobs, official data showed on Friday.
By AFP
1mo ago
Labour, which has been the largest party in the Welsh Parliament since its creation in 1999, came a dismal third in the by-election in Caerphilly, south Wales
By AFP
1mo ago
Thousands of mostly white, working-class girls and women are believed to have been raped over several decades in a number of English towns by mostly men of South Asian origin.
By AFP
1mo ago
France's lower house of parliament has approved a bill to define rape as any non-consensual sexual act, paving the way for its final adoption by the Senate next week.
By AFP
1mo ago
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