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Factbox-EU targets LNG and shipping in 14th Russia sanctions package
BRUSSELS - European Union countries on Monday adopted a 14th package of sanctions against Russia over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The...
Jun 24, 20243 min read


Factbox-Britain's big election issues
LONDON -Britain will elect a new government on July 4, with voters focussed on the high cost of living, failing public services and...
Jun 24, 20243 min read


Keir Starmer's drive to reset UK Labour risks alienating some ethnic minorities
LONDON - Sabia Akram has spent most of her life campaigning for Britain's opposition Labour Party but she will not celebrate if it wins...
Jun 24, 20244 min read


France faces risk of violence due to snap election, interior minister says
PARIS - France could see civil unrest and violence that is related to the elections, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday as...
Jun 24, 20241 min read


Who is voting for the far right as French election nears?
PARIS - This month's European election was not only the trigger for French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary poll...
Jun 24, 20243 min read


Russia offers to help Vietnam develop nuclear energy, RIA reports
Russia offered to help Vietnam develop nuclear power plants during President Vladimir Putin's trip to Hanoi, Alexei Likhachev, head of...
Jun 24, 20241 min read


North Macedonia parliament approves a new nationalist-dominated government
SKOPJE -North Macedonia's lawmakers on Sunday approved a new nationalist-dominated government of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, whose...
Jun 24, 20242 min read


How Sweden's youth homes nurtured killers, creating Europe's gun crime capital
GOTHENBURG, Sweden - The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight. A year ago, a...
Jun 24, 20246 min read


Enjoy Euro 2024 on the cheap? Fans work out how
MUNICH, Germany - Cost-conscious fans for whom budgets are tight but Euro 2024 is unmissable are parking for free in German forests,...
Jun 22, 20242 min read


Spanish rescue teams search for missing British teenager in Tenerife ravine
TENERIFE, Spain - Spanish rescue teams were searching an area around the Masca Ravine in Tenerife island's remote national park on...
Jun 22, 20241 min read


Power outage hits Balkan states as heat overloads system, minister says
PODGORICA -A major power outage hit Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and most of Croatia's coast on Friday, disrupting businesses, shutting...
Jun 22, 20242 min read


Soccer-Trains, petri dishes and a struggling sea lion join football's dubious oracles
LEIPZIG, Germany - Spare a thought for Hilla the 'oracle' sea lion from Leipzig Zoo, whose reputation for football prophesy is hanging...
Jun 22, 20243 min read
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