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MOSCOW, Dec 25, 2023 (AFP) – Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been moved to a penal colony in the Arctic, allies said on Monday after over two weeks during which his whereabouts were unknown. Authorities transferred Russia’s most prominent opposition politician to an isolated penal colony three months before a presidential vote expected to easily hand Vladimir Putin a fifth term. “We have found Alexei Navalny,” his ally, Kira Yarmysh, said on social […]
LONDON, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – Police in London said on Sunday that officers had arrested a second man on suspicion of theft and criminal damage, after a Banksy artwork was removed from a south London street corner within hours of appearing. A man in his 20s arrested on Saturday over the incident the previous day has been released on bail until a date in mid-March pending further inquiries, the British capital’s Metropolitan Police Service […]
By Miodrag SOVILJ BELGRADE, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – Serbian opposition demonstrators broke windows as they tried to storm Belgrade city hall on Sunday evening during protests over alleged election fraud, with police pushing them back with pepper spray, according to an AFP reporter on the scene. Demonstrators used flagpoles, rocks and eggs to break the windows of the capital’s administrative building and tried to break in, but were quickly pushed back by police. Around […]
MOSCOW, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – Russia’s Central Electoral Commission on Saturday rejected an application by a candidate calling for peace to stand in next year’s presidential elections. The commission cited “mistakes in documents” submitted by Yekaterina Duntsova, a former journalist and city councillor campaigning “for peace and democratic processes”, Russian television reported. The commission’s chief, Ella Pamfilova, said the members unanimously rejected Duntsova’s bid to stand in polls that President Vladimir Putin is expected […]
By Catherine DAUDENHAN, with Kenan AUGEARD in Lille VATRY, France, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – Four French judges on Sunday began questioning more than 300 Indians travelling on a plane detained near Paris over suspicions of human trafficking. The Nicaragua-bound Airbus A340 has been held at Vatry airport, 150 kilometres (95 miles) east of Paris, since arriving from Dubai on Thursday for refuelling after an anonymous tip-off that it was carrying potential victims of human […]
By Nina LARSON GENEVA, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – A number of flights from Geneva airport were delayed and some were cancelled during the holiday rush Sunday, as dozens of ground staff went on strike over a wage dispute. The workers began their strike at 4:00 am (0300 GMT) to protest conditions provided by their employer, the Dubai National Air Travel Agency (Dnata). Dnata personnel, who handle about a fifth of the traffic through Cointrin […]
VATRY, France, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – Ten Indian passengers among more than 300, including unaccompanied minors, on a Nicaragua-bound plane held in France over suspected human trafficking have applied for asylum, a source close to the case told AFP Saturday. The plane has been held at Vatry airport, 150 kilometres (95 miles) east of Paris, since arriving from Dubai on Thursday following an anonymous tip-off that it was carrying potential victims of human trafficking. […]
PARIS, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – Five people were arrested in northern France on Friday as part of an investigation into a criminal terrorist conspiracy, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said. A source close to the case confirmed to AFP that they had been taken into police custody, but gave no further details of their suspected crimes. The arrests took place in Nancy and two other towns in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of northern France, the […]
KYIV, Ukraine, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – Ukraine’s military said it has shot down three Russian fighter-bombers in the south of the country. Air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said the Su-34 jets were downed around noon on Friday. In his announcement he noted a message found on a downed Russian drone which read “Die, bitches”. “Great idea! Here is our response!” he said on Telegram. In his nightly address on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked […]
By Shaun TANDON WASHINGTON, Dec 22, 2023 (AFP) – The United States said Friday it will impose sanctions on foreign banks that support Russia’s war in Ukraine, in a new bid to exert pressure on Moscow as it diversifies from the West to China. Under an executive order signed by President Joe Biden, the United States will slap so-called secondary sanctions against financial institutions that back companies already targeted for supporting Russia’s defense industry. “We […]
LONDON, Dec 22, 2023 (AFP) – British street artist Banksy revealed his latest UK street artwork Friday — only for two men to run off with it just hours later while being filmed by bemused onlookers. The installation, a traffic stop sign covered with three aircraft resembling military drones, was erected at an intersection in Peckham, south London, on Friday morning. An image was posted to Banksy’s social media just after midday. But shortly afterwards […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 21, 2023 (AFP) – The White House said Thursday it was preparing a new proposal to Russia to seek the release of two imprisoned Americans after Moscow rejected an earlier attempt. “We’re working hard to see what we can do to get another proposal that might be more successful,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. The State Department said earlier this month that Russia rejected a “substantial” proposal to free the […]
