UK’s main parties ditch candidates over election betting probe
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's two main political parties on Tuesday each withdrew support for candidates who are being investigated over bets…
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French court upholds warrant for Syria’s Assad over chemical weapons
PARIS (Reuters) -A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld an arrest warrant issued for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the…
Analysis-“Enough is enough”: How Australia’s quiet diplomacy led Julian Assange to freedom
CANBERRA/SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - After Julian Assange was released by a court on the remote U.S. Pacific territory of Saipan on…
Brazil top court majority says marijuana possession not a crime
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A majority of the justices on Brazil's Supreme Court are in favor of decriminalizing the possession of…
Russian pranksters release hoax video call with UK’s David Cameron about Ukraine
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian pranksters who often target people the Russian state is interested in released footage on Wednesday of…
Kenya’s youth-led protest movement leaves Ruto fumbling for a response
NAIROBI (Reuters) - As John Aron headed out to join the protests raging outside parliament, he felt something huge had…
Flooded Brazil ‘ghost town’ a climate warning to world, UN advisor says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Record floods that killed over 170 people and displaced half a million in southern Brazil are…
Dagestan political elite to be vetted for links to radical Islam after shootings
(Reuters) - The Kremlin-backed head of Dagestan on Tuesday ordered background checks to be carried out on the Russian republic's…
Anger at Macron fuels far-right support in France’s leftist bastions
LA TRINITE-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) - Florent de Kersauson, a French far-right parliamentary candidate, was leafleting in Brittany when his deputy…