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China is an “arch criminal” intent on bullying Taiwan and has no right to oppose or comment on its bid to join ...Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont arrested in Italy
Exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was arrested in Italy on Thursday, his lawyer and an aide said, four years after fleeing ...Defeated candidates in Russian election try to annul ‘crooked’ online results
A coalition of defeated parliamentary candidates in Moscow who allege they were cheated of victory in a parliamentary election by a crooked ...Russian navy practises striking Black Sea targets as Ukraine, U.S. hold drills
Russia’s navy practised firing at targets in the Black Sea off the coast of annexed Crimea using its Bastion coastal missile defence ...Canaries volcano lava gushes towards sea, eruption goes on
Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day on Wednesday, blanketing houses and ...