Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was freed by Moscow last month after a decade in jail, vowed Sunday to fight for Russian political prisoners from his new base in Switzerland. “You can’t live with peace of mind when you know there are political…
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Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday he would favour retrials for hundreds of military officers jailed for coup-plotting. In the latest sign of the turmoil that has gripped Turkish politics since the government was hit…
Exiled Uzbek dissidents broke into the Geneva home of President Islam Karimov’s eldest daughter last month, publishing images of items allegedly taken from the Uzbek national museum, according to a report Sunday. The members of a dissident group called…
The bronze statute of Benfica legend Eusebio in front of Lisbon’s Stadium of Light was covered with flowers, scarves and messages as Portugal mourned the iconic striker’s death on Sunday. Widely regarded as Portugal’s greatest player before the meteoric…
A man died after his mobility scooter fell into the River Thames on Sunday, police said, as dozens of flood warnings remained in place across Britain. The 47-year-old was pulled from the river near Oxford, south England, after he fell in while trying…
The British media had warned of a flood of new Bulgarian and Romanian migrants arriving on January 1, but judging by this week’s coverage, they only appeared to have found one. Victor Spirescu, a 30-year-old Romanian, has become an unexpected star after…
Pope Francis has called for a rethink in the way the Catholic Church deals with the children of gay couples and divorced parents, warning against “administering a vaccine against faith”. “On an educational level, gay unions raise challenges for us today…
A blast that killed the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic this week “was not an accident,” despite an official theory to the contrary, the envoy’s daughter said Saturday. “What is certain is that it was not an accident,” Rana al-Jamal, who…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday reversed a blanket ban on protests at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Russia had initially banned any political protests in the Russian Black…
A group of nuns in Spain got a New Year surprise when they checked their answerphone machine to discover they had missed a call from the Pope, who left a message asking why they didn’t pick up. “What can the nuns be doing that stops them answering the…