3 hours agoAP EXCLUSIVE: Maduro ally presses for dialogue with BidenA close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he’s hopeful the Biden administration will roll back a “cruel” sanctions policy and open the door to diplomacy.
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4 hours agoChina strips license of lawyer for Hong Kong activistA Chinese lawyer who represented a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist has been stripped of his license amid efforts by Beijing to crush opposition to its tighter control ov...
3 hours agoMexico says US 'fabricated' charges, releases evidenceMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration “fabricated” drug trafficking accusations against his country’s former de...
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1 day agoYears of white supremacy threats culminated in Capitol riotsBoth within and outside the walls of the U.S. Capitol, banners and symbols of white supremacy and anti-government extremism were on display as an insurrectionist mob swar...
1 day agoItaly's ex-premier Berlusconi in Monaco hospital for testsFormer Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized in the principality of Monaco to undergo medical tests for heart problems.
1 day agoRussia prison agency warns Navalny he faces immediate arrestRussia’s prison service says top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny faces an immediate arrest after he returns from Germany.
1 day agoGreek police clash with protesters over campus police planPolice have used tear gas to disperse crowds at a rally in Athens organized to protest plans to set up a state security division at university campuses.
1 day agoGerman lockdown loopholes criticized as deaths hit new highThe head of Germany’s disease control agency says there are too many loopholes in the country’s coronavirus lockdown rules.
1 day agoZimbabwe court denies bail for journalist over false story A Zimbabwean court has denied bail to prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, who has been in detention for almost a week on accusations of publishing a falsehood.
1 day agoEurope's rights court accepts Ukraine case against RussiaEurope’s top human rights court has agreed to look into Ukraine’s complaint against alleged human rights violations in the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
1 day agoA day to remember: London nursing home greets virus vaccineBritain is racing to give a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine to all its nursing home residents by the end of the month.
2 days agoManagers detained as 22 trapped in China mine for 3rd dayAuthorities have detained managers at a gold mine in eastern China where 22 workers have been trapped underground following an explosion Sunday.
1 day agoLawyer, others arrested by Hong Kong national security unitHong Kong police have arrested 11 people on suspicion of helping 12 Hong Kong activists try to flee the city.
1 day agoAsia Today: China virus cases spike as WHO researchers visitChina is seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases in its frozen northeast as a World Health Organization team arrived to investigate the origins of the pandemic.
1 day agoCafe, croissant, worms? EU agency says worms safe to eatThe vaunted Mediterranean diet and French gastronomy are getting some competition: The European food safety agency says worms are safe to eat.
2 days agoSpain: Judge orders incapacitated woman to get virus vaccineA judge in northwest Spain has overruled a family’s objections and decided to allow health authorities to administer a coronavirus vaccine to an incapacitated woman in a ...
2 days agoGerman government defends slow vaccination campaignGermany’s health minister has defended the government's decision to procure and approve vaccines against the coronavirus along with the rest of the European Union amid cr...
2 days agoClimate activist Thunberg to appear on Swedish postal stampSwedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg will appear on a postal stamp in her native Sweden that is part of a series focusing on the environment which will b...
2 days agoTurkey approves China-based Sinovac vaccine's emergency useTurkish authorities have given the go-ahead for the emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd.
2 days agoIrish PM sorry for 'profound wrong' of unwed mothers homesIreland’s prime minster has issued a formal state apology to the thousands of unmarried women and their children who endured pain, shame and stigma at church-run institut...
2 days agoDavid Barclay, billionaire twin Telegraph owner, dies at 86David Barclay, one of the billionaire identical twins whose business empire includes Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died aged 86.
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2 days agoSpain: Snow adds to misery in Madrid slum area without powerAs record snowfall and sub-freezing temperatures enveloped much of normally temperate Spain, few residents suffered as severely as thousands of people who live in a mega-...