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April 23, 2018
Radovan Karadzic launches appeal against UN convictions
THE HAGUE — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked UN judges on Monday to overturn his genocide conviction, accusing prosecutors of unfairly blackening his name and twisting his words at his trial.Karadzic was convicted two years ago for some of the worst war crimes committed as the former Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which around 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were ...
April 23, 2018
Armenian PM quits after nearly two weeks of street protests
YEREVAN — Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan said he was resigning on Monday to help maintain civic peace following almost two weeks of mass street protests that have plunged the impoverished ex-Soviet republic into political crisis.Sarksyan, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had served as Armenia’s president for a decade until this month and had faced accusations of clinging to power when parliament elected him as prime minister ...
April 23, 2018
Paris attacks suspect gets 20-year jail sentence for Brussels shootout
BRUSSELS — A Belgian court on Monday sentenced the sole surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, to 20 years in prison on terror charges over a bloody gun battle with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016.Abdeslam’s co-defendant Sofiane Ayari received the same sentence after the pair were convicted of terrorism-related attempted murder over the shootout in which four police officers were wounded.Judges at the court ...
April 23, 2018
France tightens immigration law, exposing division in ruling party
PARIS — France’s National Assembly has adopted a controversial immigration bill that speeds up the asylum process and accelerates deportations after a fierce debate that exposed divisions in President Emmanuel Macron’s party.After 61 hours of discussion, the legislation, which was slammed by the left as too tough and the right as too soft, was approved late Sunday by 228 votes in favor to 139 against.Fourteen members of Macron’s centrist Republic ...
April 23, 2018
Italy’s right wins local vote amid government formation stalemate
ROME — A center-right alliance won Sunday’s election in the tiny southern Italian region of Molise, as negotiations continued at the national level to try to form a government following last month’s inconclusive vote.Molise has only around 300,000 inhabitants, but its regional ballot was closely watched as a sign of possible momentum for the parties jostling to form a coalition in the wake of the March 4 election that produced ...
April 22, 2018
Germany’s Social Democrats choose first female chair in hope of revamp
BERLIN — Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) elected Andrea Nahles as their first ever female leader on Sunday, hoping she can reinvigorate the country’s oldest party after it suffered heavy losses in September’s election.Some 66 percent of SPD delegates at a congress voted for Nahles, a plain-speaking former labor minister and Catholic mother of one who has close links to trade unions and once said she wanted to be either a ...
April 21, 2018
Polish teachers rally to demand wage hikes
WARSAW — Several thousand teachers rallied in Warsaw on Saturday demanding wage hikes a week after Poland’s right-wing government announced a raft of generous spending measures in other sectors ahead of local elections this fall.Public sector wages, especially in education and health care, have long been notoriously low in Poland, a 2004 EU member of 38 million people, where the average gross monthly salary is around 5,000 zloty (1,200 euro, ...
April 21, 2018
Opposition defiant as Armenian PM calls for talks to end crisis
Yerevan — Armenia’s political crisis deepened on Saturday as protest leader Nikol Pashinyan said he was only prepared to discuss the exit of the country’s newly elected Prime Minister, former President Serzh Sarkisian.“We are only ready to discuss the conditions of his departure,” news agencies quoted Pashinyan as saying after Sarkisian called on the opposition to enter into talks with authorities.“This won’t be a dialogue, as I already said, we ...
April 21, 2018
Queen marks 92nd birthday with Commonwealth concert
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II marked her 92nd birthday on Saturday with traditional gun salutes and a Commonwealth-themed charity concert featuring Tom Jones, Kylie and Shaggy.Horse-drawn guns fired 41 times in Hyde Park and 62 times at the Tower of London, while at Windsor Castle, the band played “Happy Birthday” during the changing of the guard.In the evening, the monarch and her family were due to attend a concert with ...
April 20, 2018
Commonwealth backs Charles as next head
LONDON — Commonwealth leaders agreed Friday that Prince Charles should follow his mother Queen Elizabeth II as the next head of the group, the BBC and other media reported.Queen Elizabeth on Thursday told leaders from the 53 member states that she wanted her eldest son to succeed her in the symbolic figurehead role.Leaders, gathered at Windsor Castle for private talks, agreed that Charles, heir to the thrones of 16 Commonwealth ...
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