
EU urges Malta to reform judiciary after botched murder probe
The new European Commissioner for Justice told AFP Friday he wants to ensure Malta implements the EU's recommendations for judicial…
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The new European Commissioner for Justice told AFP Friday he wants to ensure Malta implements the EU's recommendations for judicial…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPThe United States on Friday imposed sanctions on three Iranian-backed Iraqi militia leaders over a deadly crackdown on protests in…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPGreek youths and far-left groups demonstrated in Athens and other cities on Friday in memory of a teenage boy killed…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPZambia's President Edgar Lungu and other senior government officials have been accused of facilitating rosewood trafficking, according to an environmental…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPSouth Africa's Desmond Tutu could be discharged "early next week" after he was hospitalised with an infection, his family said…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPSuspected militia fighters have decapitated 16 people in a new village massacre near Beni in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo,…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPThe United States on Friday announced sanctions on three Iranian-linked Iraqi militia leaders for allegedly assisting the crackdown on demonstrations…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPFrench labour unions have vowed a wave of strikes against a pension overhaul promised by President Emmanuel Macron, a centrepiece…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPTeen activist Greta Thunberg on Friday urged world leaders gathered in Madrid for a UN climate conference to take urgent…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPA gunman opened fire on Friday at a US naval base -- the second such shooting in as many days…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPPolice said on Friday they had charged Slovakia's former president Andrej Kiska with tax fraud as the self-made millionaire is…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPStony-faced and dressed in black, Germany's chancellor walked in silence along the railway tracks that brought prisoners to the Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPMore than 800,000 people took to the streets across France on Thursday on the first day of a nationwide strike…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited frontline troops on Friday as he geared up for his first face-to-face talks with Russia's…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPSeveral Australian bushfires have combined to form a "mega fire" that is burning out of control across a swathe of…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPThree people died Friday and many more were feared trapped after a residential building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi,…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPTogo will hold elections in February next year, a government decree said, when incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe is expected to…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPThe husband and son of a slain Maltese journalist said she had lived in fear as she investigated government corruption,…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPNigerian state security police on Friday re-arrested an opposition activist and former presidential candidate, a day after a court ordered…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPExiled Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has condemned what she called a "massacre" in her homeland, which has been rocked by…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPBereaved Gambians shouted in grief and sobbed Thursday as they recounted how their loved ones drowned attempting to reach Europe…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPThe flashy governor of Nairobi was arrested Friday after Kenya's chief prosecutor ordered his detention for alleged economic crimes. Governor…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPSuspected militia fighters have decapitated 16 people in a new village massacre near Beni in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo,…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPAlgeria braced for fresh demonstrations Friday, the last in a series of weekly marches before a presidential election opposed by…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is preparing to visit Washington next week, a spokeswoman said Friday, which would be the…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPRussia on Friday handed an unusually lenient three-year suspended sentence to a student convicted of making calls for extremism on…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPAlgeria braced for fresh demonstrations Friday, the last in a series of weekly marches before a presidential election opposed by…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPIraq's top Shiite cleric said Friday he had no role in talks on a new premier for the protest-hit country,…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFP"Those who didn't flee like myself were hacked to pieces with machetes," said nine-year-old Edvige Kalivanda, whose parents were butchered…
Published on 06.12.2019 by AFP AFPAuthorities in Greece were on high alert Friday in case annual rallies commemorating the fatal police shooting of a teenage…
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