Europe

France: Man who slapped Emmanuel Macron gets jail sentence

VALENCE: A French court on Thursday sentenced the man who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron across the face this week…

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Pope rejects German bishop’s offer to quit over abuse

ROME: Pope Francis on Thursday rejected an offer by top German bishop Reinhard Marx to resign over the huge child…

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‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic faces final genocide verdict

THE HAGUE : UN judges will rule Tuesday on Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's appeal against his genocide conviction…

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Ratko Mladic: Serb crusader dubbed ‘epitome of evil’

KALINOVIK, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ratko Mladic insists he was chosen by "fate" to defend the Serb people from a Western…

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‘America is back’: Brussels upbeat on eve of Biden’s Europe trip

BRUSSELS: US President Joe Biden's trip to Europe this week will signal that multilateralism has survived the Trump years, and…

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EU chief defends China deal ahead of US summit

BRUSSELS: One of Brussels' top two leaders has defended the European Union's efforts to reach an investment agreement with China,…

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Putin-Biden summit: Mutual grievances on the agenda

MOSCOW: Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden are to meet in Geneva on June 16 amid the…

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Activists swarm street in London in protest against land grab in Pakistan’s Sindh

LONDON: The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) held a protest opposite Downing Street, London on June 6 against large-scale land grabbing…

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800 arrested worldwide in huge crime sting: Europol

THE HAGUE: Police arrested 800 people in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones used by criminals that were secretly…

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WTO panel considers easing protections on Covid-19 vaccines

GENEVA: Envoys from World Trade Organization member nations are taking up a proposal to ease patents and other intellectual property…

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