British Parliament to Vote on Whether Misogyny Constitutes Hate Crime

British Parliament to Vote on Whether Misogyny Constitutes Hate Crime

British lawmakers are set to vote Monday on whether misogyny constitutes a hate crime in the aftermath of the killing...

European States Halt AstraZeneca Vaccine Over Blood Clot Fears, But WHO Insists

European States Halt AstraZeneca Vaccine Over Blood Clot Fears, But WHO Insists

Germany, France and Italy are the latest European countries to halt the rollout of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine following reports...

Turkey Pushes for Better Deal on Refugees

Turkey Pushes for Better Deal on Refugees

This month marks the fifth anniversary of Turkey’s deal with the EU that expanded a mass exodus of refugees and...

European States Halt AstraZeneca Vaccine Over Blood Clot Fears, But WHO Insists It Is Safe

European States Halt AstraZeneca Vaccine Over Blood Clot Fears, But WHO Insists It Is Safe

Germany, France and Italy became the latest European countries to halt the rollout of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine Monday, as...

Semiconductor Chip Shortage Causes GM to Cut Fuel Management Module from Trucks

Semiconductor Chip Shortage Causes GM to Cut Fuel Management Module from Trucks

U.S. automaker General Motors Corporation announced Monday it will build certain 2021 light-duty full-size pickup trucks without a fuel management...

Kremlin Critic Alexey Navalny Says He Is at Strict Prison Camp Outside Moscow

Kremlin Critic Alexey Navalny Says He Is at Strict Prison Camp Outside Moscow

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny is being held in a prison camp in Russia’s Vladimir region northeast of Moscow known for...

Britain Imposes New Sanctions on 6 Members of Syrian Regime

Britain Imposes New Sanctions on 6 Members of Syrian Regime

Britain said Monday it was imposing new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including asset freezes and travel bans on the...

Vatican Excludes Gay Union Blessing as God ‘Can’t Bless Sin’

Vatican Excludes Gay Union Blessing as God ‘Can’t Bless Sin’

The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”The Vatican’s orthodoxy office,...

Worldwide Major Arms Sales Remain Flat but Middle East Increases Imports

Worldwide Major Arms Sales Remain Flat but Middle East Increases Imports

International deliveries of arms were flat in the period from 2016 to 2020, ending more than a decade of increases,...

Beyoncé Set to Make Grammy History; Styles, Eilish Perform

Beyoncé Set to Make Grammy History; Styles, Eilish Perform

Queen Bey is closer to sitting on her Grammys throne: The singer won her 26th Grammy on Sunday, almost matching,...

Cleared of Reports of Turning Back Migrants, Frontex, the European Union’s Border Agency, Faces More Scrutiny

Cleared of Reports of Turning Back Migrants, Frontex, the European Union’s Border Agency, Faces More Scrutiny

The European Union’s border and coast guard agency Frontex, the pride of the 27-nation bloc’s vast effort to keep watch...

Macedonian Artist Makes Breathtaking Model Replicas of Ships

Macedonian Artist Makes Breathtaking Model Replicas of Ships

Dame Zaturoski from Struga, North Macedonia, is a lawyer by training, but his true passion is making models of boats...

Global Coalition Forms to Expand School Feeding for Vulnerable Children 

Global Coalition Forms to Expand School Feeding for Vulnerable Children 

The World Food Program is leading a project to restore school feeding programs for vulnerable children who have been cut...

London Police Under Pressure Over Clashes at Women’s Protest 

London Police Under Pressure Over Clashes at Women’s Protest 

London’s Metropolitan Police was under heavy pressure Sunday to explain its actions during a vigil for a woman whom one...

British Iranian Aid Worker Appears in Iranian Court 

British Iranian Aid Worker Appears in Iranian Court 

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared before Iran’s Revolutionary Court Sunday, facing charges of “propaganda against the system.” “Legally, the court should announce the verdict...

Two Key States in Germany Hold Parliamentary Elections 

Two Key States in Germany Hold Parliamentary Elections 

Two states in Germany are voting Sunday for their new regional legislatures, six months ahead of general national elections, which...

Police Clash With Participants of Vigil for Slain British Woman

Police Clash With Participants of Vigil for Slain British Woman

Clashes broke out Saturday between police and people who gathered in defiance of coronavirus restrictions at an unofficial vigil for...

Irish Foreign Minister: Britain Guilty of ‘Perverse Nationalism’ Over US Trade

Irish Foreign Minister: Britain Guilty of ‘Perverse Nationalism’ Over US Trade

Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said Saturday that Britain was demonstrating “perverse nationalism” by seeking to reach a trade deal...

Lukashenko: Belarus May Submit New Eurovision Entry After Backlash 

Lukashenko: Belarus May Submit New Eurovision Entry After Backlash 

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Saturday that Belarus might submit a new entry to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after...

Black Scholar: It’s Time France Confronts Its Colonial Past

Black Scholar: It’s Time France Confronts Its Colonial Past

A Black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who’s taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says...

US Senators Condemn Russia’s ‘Assault’ on RFE/RL

US Senators Condemn Russia’s ‘Assault’ on RFE/RL

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop his country’s “state-sponsored assault on...

Police in Moscow Detain Participants of Opposition Forum

Police in Moscow Detain Participants of Opposition Forum

Russian police Saturday detained about 150 participants of a forum of independent members of municipal councils, an action that comes...