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Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, center left, opposition candidate Ilya Yashin, center right, candidate Ivan Zhdanov, right, and opposition candidate Alexei Minyalo walk during a protest in Moscow, Russia. They work with the organization of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a Berlin hospital after suffering what German authorities say was a poisoning with a chemical nerve agent while traveling in Siberia on Aug. 20. (AP)

German foreign minister threatens sanctions over Navalny poisoning

The Kremlin has denied responsibility for the attack and said that Germany is yet to share any findings with Moscow's prosecutors

06 Sep 2020 11:52 AM

Francisco Espaata, 60, is surrounded by members of his medical team as he looks at the Mediterranean sea from a promenade next to the "Hospital del Mar" in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. A hospital in Barcelona is studying how short trips to the beach may help COVID-19 patients recover from long and traumatic intensive hospital care. (AP)

Spanish doctors hope beach trips can help ICU virus patients

A medical team at Hospital del Mar — theHospital of the Seas — is seeing if beach trips can help COVID-19 patients after long ICU stays

05 Sep 2020 2:56 PM

Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (AP)

Russia publishes virus vaccine results, weeks after approval

Developers said the vaccine appeared to be safe and to prompt an antibody response in all 40 people tested in the second phase of the study

05 Sep 2020 1:00 PM

A man holds a poster with a portrait of Alexei Navalny reading "Navalny was poisoned, we know who is to blame, Alexei you must live" during an unsanctioned protest in Russia. Russian authorities have appeared reluctant to investigate what caused Navalny’s condition, saying there had so far been no grounds for a criminal investigation. (AP)

NATO agrees Russia’s Navalny was poisoned using nerve agent

German authorities have said that tests showed that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group

05 Sep 2020 12:20 PM

Alain Cocq, suffering from an orphan desease of the blood, rests on his medical bed in his flat in Dijon, northeastern France. (AFP)

Frenchman to livestream own death in right-to-die case

Alain Cocq had written to president Macron to be permitted for euthanasia but he wrote back to him saying its not allowed under French law

04 Sep 2020 4:18 PM

Russian police carry opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, from a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia. (AP File)

NATO to have urgent meet on poisoning of Navalny

Western leaders have demanded answers from Kremlin after Berlin said there was evidence that he had been afflicted by the infamous Novichok

04 Sep 2020 2:46 PM

If the activists win their case at the court in Strasbourg, France, the countries would be legally bound to cut emissions in line with the requirements of the 2015 Paris climate accord. (AFP)

Six young climate activists are taking 33 countries to court

The six filed a claim to hold the countries accountable for their inadequate efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions

04 Sep 2020 1:07 PM

Smoke raises during a wildfire over the ancient site of Mycenae, Greece. (AP)

Still ablaze, this year's Arctic wildfires set new CO2 emission records

Siberia and the Arctic Circle are prone to large year-on-year temperature fluctuations, but persistence of this year's warm spell is unusual

03 Sep 2020 3:01 PM

Journalists of Belarusian TUT.BY media outlet hold banners reading "I don't protest but work", "This is me at work", "Freedom for journalists!", from left to right, as they stand in front of police station in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

Belarusian journalists face charges for covering protests

The Lukashenko-led government had earlier revoked the accreditation of many Belarusian journalists and deported some foreign journalists

03 Sep 2020 11:13 AM

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny casting his vote at a polling station during to the Moscow city Duma election in Moscow. - Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny provide clear proof that he was poisoned by a chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, September 2, 2020, demanding explanations from Moscow. (AFP File)

Germany says Soviet-era nerve agent used on Russia's Navalny

The findings — which experts say point strongly to Russian state involvement — added to tensions between Russia and the West

03 Sep 2020 8:40 AM

President Vladimir Putin (right) would host Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow "in the next couple of weeks". (AFP)

Putin to host Belarus' Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Minsk on Thursday, after weeks of protests against a disputed presidential election

02 Sep 2020 3:54 PM

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a news conference at the Pine Residence, the official residence of the French ambassador to Lebanon. (AFP)

Reform swiftly or face consequences: Macron to Lebanese leaders

Macron said targeted sanctions could be imposed in case of proven corruption and would be coordinated with the European Union

02 Sep 2020 12:44 PM

Thousands of people gather at Republique Square in Paris. The January 2015 attacks against Charlie Hebdo and, two days later, a kosher supermarket, touched off a wave of killings claimed by the Islamic State group across Europe. (AP File)

Charlie Hebdo reprints Muhammad caricatures as terror trial begins

The 2015 attacks against Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket, touched off a wave of killings claimed by the ISIS across Europe

02 Sep 2020 9:20 AM

A protester stands half naked and lifts his hands up in front of the Reichstag building guarded by policemen at the end of a demonstration called by far-right and COVID-19 deniers to protest against restrictions related to the new coronavirus pandemic, in Berlin. (AFP)

Berlin halts 'anti-corona' rally as European cities protest mask mandates

Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Germany, with daily new infection numbers reaching highs not seen since April

30 Aug 2020 3:40 PM

A horse stands in a box at a equestrian club in Les Yvelines, French department west of Paris. (AP)

France’s horses killed in mysterious ritual-like mutilations

Theories abound as to whether mutilations are a morbid rite of an unknown cult or a chilling 'challenge' relayed by social media

30 Aug 2020 9:45 AM

Protesters wave old Belarusian national flags standing along a street in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

Belarus revokes accreditations of journalists covering protests for foreign media

Lukashenko had earlier threatened to expel foreign journalists, accusing them of inciting protests against him before the election

30 Aug 2020 9:13 AM

Smoke billows from burning tyres and pallets and fireworks as a few hundred protesters riot in the Rosengard neighbourhood of Malmo, Sweden. (AP)

Riot in Sweden after Danish leader banned from Quran-burning rally

About 300 people were on the streets of Malmo with violence escalating as the evening wore on, according to police and local media

29 Aug 2020 3:53 PM

Thousands of demonstrators have again gathered in the major Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk to denounce the arrest of the region's governor a month ago and to support opposition politician Alexei Navalny and Belarusian people. (AP)

'Putin, have some tea': Russian city holds eighth anti-Kremlin protest

Some also expressed solidarity with opponents of Belarusian leader Lukashenko who have been staging public protests for weeks now

29 Aug 2020 12:27 PM

Warsaw zoo's two female elephants, Fredzia, right, and Buba, are shown in their enclosure in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Scientists at Warsaw’s zoo have been taking blood, saliva and other samples from the zoo’s three elephants in recent days in preparations to test whether giving them hemp oil can reduce their stress.(AP)

Warsaw zoo tests effect of hemp oil on elephants' stress

Zoo veterinarian says hemp oil, also known as CBD, or cannabidiol oil, has been shown to reduce anxiety and stress in other animals

29 Aug 2020 10:20 AM

Stepan Svetlov is the founder of NEXTA, a Telegram channel with 2.1 million subscribers that helps mobilise protesters and shares photo and video content from the demonstrations. (AFP)

Young blogger mobilises protest against Belarus dictator

Stepan Svetlov's NEXTA Live, a Telegram channel with 2.1 mm subscribers helps mobilise protesters and shares information from the ground

29 Aug 2020 9:41 AM

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