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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)

Young Portuguese activists take 33 countries to court over climate...

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

4 Sept 2020 1:06 PM IST

$Belarus students with a banner reading \Is power more precious than our lives?\, attend a rally in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)$ World

Journalists detained in Belarus for covering protests

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

3 Sept 2020 11:25 AM IST

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 Navalny was poisoned with Soviet-era nerve agent

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Navalnyâ€™s poisoning attempted murder, meant to silence one of Putinâ€™s...

3 Sept 2020 8:40 AM IST

President Vladimir Putin (right) would host Belaruss 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...

2 Sept 2020 3:53 PM IST

Candles placed next to a sign reading Je suis Charlie (I am Charlie) and a pen in La Rochelle as people gathered to pay tribute to the twelve people killed in an attack by the Kouachi brothers on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. (AFP File)

Charlie Hebdo reprints controversial Muhammad cartoons as terror trial...

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

2 Sept 2020 9:20 AM IST

A protestor holds flowers in front of police officers, during a demonstration against COVID-19 measures, in Berlin, Germany. (AP)

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

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

30 Aug 2020 3:35 PM IST

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

Horse killings on the rise in France, authorities suspect ritual-like...

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

30 Aug 2020 9:44 AM IST

A woman waves an old Belarusian national flag standing on the roof as Belarusian opposition supporters march to Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

Belarus strips accreditations of journalists working for foreign media

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

30 Aug 2020 9:12 AM IST

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...

29 Aug 2020 3:53 PM IST

Thousands of demonstrators have again gathered in the major Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk to denounce the arrest of the regions 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...

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

29 Aug 2020 12:13 PM IST

$J.K. Rowling poses for the media at the world premiere of the film \Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald\ in Paris. (AP File)$ World

JK Rowling returns her Kennedy human rights award after...

-'The statement incorrectly implied that I was transphobic, and that I am responsible for harm to trans people,-'...

29 Aug 2020 10:42 AM IST

Patryk Pycinski, a mammal expert, prepares a male elephant, Fredzia to take a saliva sample in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Scientists at Warsaws zoo have been taking blood, saliva and other samples from the zoos 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...

29 Aug 2020 10:17 AM IST