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A bill to legalize marijuana nationwide in Germany will be formally introduced by the government “immediately after Easter,” a top health official says. He also seems to be pushing back on recent reports that the measure has been significantly scaled back from an initial framework announced last year. The legislation was initially set to be […]
Latest figures show 1,210 households in hotels and B&Bs for longer than the six-week legal limit
The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview.
More than 200 aircraft and some 10,000 troops from 18 NATO countries will take part in NATO's largest international exercise.
At least “60 students were poisoned in a girls’ school in the town of Haftkel”, state television cited a local official as saying.
At the event to commemorate 50 years of 'Project Tiger', PM Modi also launched the International Big Cats Alliance.
Evan Gershkovich is the first American journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War.
(1st UPDATE) Taiwan's Defense Ministry says that in the past 24 hours it had spotted 71 Chinese air force aircraft and nine navy vessels around Taiwan
British firm Mykines Corporation reportedly exported $1.2 billion worth of technical equipment, including high-end microchips, telecom equipment, and servers, to Russia since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, potentially violating sanctions on export, the Financial Times reported.
Industry leaders fear new entry restrictions and the UK’s tarnished image among some Europeans have caused a decline in EU visitors
"I am now dying," Georgia's imprisoned former president said. "I have been systematically tortured, physically and psychologically."
Russia has lost elections to three United Nations bodies, a sign that opposition to its invasion of Ukraine over a year ago remains strong. This week's votes in the 54-member U.N. Economic and Social Council follow approval of six non-binding resolutions against Russia by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly. In the ECOSOC votes Wednesday, Russia was overwhelmingly defeated by Romania for a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women. It lost to Estonia to be a member of the executive board of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF. And it was defeated by Armenia and the Czech Republic in secret ballot votes for membership on the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
US State Department official says Turkish officials had been “very clear” that they had put in place a ban on the re-export of sanctioned goods to Russia.
The Commercial Court of France has officially declared Russian propaganda television channel RT France (Russia Today) bankrupt, Politico reported on April 8.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has been in contact with Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, who is suspected of war crimes, as it works for the return of Ukrainian children who were deported to Russia. It was the first confirmation of international intervention to reunite families with children who were forcibly deported. The ICRC was responding to a U.N. briefing by Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. She says the children were taken for their safety and Moscow was coordinating with international organizations to return them to their families. The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said it has also been in communication with Russian officials “but has not received feedback on our offer to facilitate reunification processes.”
Fedorova announced that RT France employees would be laid off in the coming days.
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