Ecuador trial over presidential candidate’s murder gets underway
QUITO (Reuters) - A court in Ecuador on Tuesday started a trial against five people accused of murdering presidential candidate…
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Women’s rights activists cover Rome’s Spanish Steps in red paint
ROME (Reuters) - Women's rights activists protested against feminicide on Wednesday by painting Rome's famed Spanish Steps red, symbolically representing…
Yacht crew expected to deny arson charges over fire on Greek island
ATHENS (Reuters) - The crew members of a yacht accused of starting a forest fire last week on the Greek…
Peru to stop labeling transgender people as mentally ill
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will stop listing individuals who identify as transgender, among others, as suffering from mental disorders, the…
EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority is now official, seeks chair
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The regulation that sets up the European Union's new agency to combat money laundering went into force…
Kenya president backs down on tax hikes after deadly unrest
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday withdrew planned tax hikes, bowing to pressure from protesters who had stormed…
Four people arrested at UK PM Sunak’s home -police statement
LONDON (Reuters) - Four men were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's home in northern…
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…