A seven-year-old pupil was killed and several others wounded in an unprecedented stabbing attack at a school in the Croatian capital Zagreb Friday, with a 19-year-old man arrested as a suspect, authorities said.Police sealed off Precko primary school after the attack, thought to be the first of its kind in Croatia. Parents and pupils expressed …
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A Madrid court sentenced ex-IMF chief and Spanish economy minister Rodrigo Rato to more than four years in prison for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption, it said Friday.The sentence comes after the disgraced former heavyweight of Spain’s conservative Popular Party was jailed for four and a half years in 2018 for misusing funds while …
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Russian missiles targeted Kyiv at sunrise Friday, killing at least one person and damaging embassies and a university in the centre of the Ukrainian capital.Later in the day, Russia officials said Kyiv had launched a deadly strike in its Kursk region, part of which is occupied by Ukrainian troops.Moscow said its dawn attack on Kyiv …
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US diplomats met with Syria’s new ruler on Friday, an official told AFP, as outside powers seek assurances the country’s Islamist-led authorities will be moderate and inclusive.The ouster of former president Bashar al-Assad ended decades of abuses and years of civil war, but raised concerns over minorities and women’s rights, as well as the future …
 Russian missiles targeted Kyiv at sunrise on Friday, killing at least one person and damaging six diplomatic missions and a university in the centre of the Ukrainian capital.Moscow said it attacked Ukraine as retaliation for a strike using Western missiles on a chemical plant in Russia earlier in the week.Russian aerial attacks regularly target the capital …
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France’s new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was Friday racing to name by Christmas at the latest a government to lead the country out of its political crisis but with no sign of an end to months of tensions that have rattled President Emmanuel Macron.The country was plunged into fresh chaos earlier this month after the …
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A French court on Friday was expected to deliver a verdict against eight people charged in connection with the jihadist beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in 2020, a murder that horrified France.Paty, 47, was beheaded in October 2020 by an 18-year-old Islamist radical of Chechen origin after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class.His killer, Abdoullakh …
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Russia’s central bank kept interest rates at 21 percent on Friday despite surging inflation, a surprise decision that follows criticism from the country’s political and business elite over the effects of higher borrowing costs on the economy.Moscow has struggled to rein in inflation, which has soared in the wake of Moscow’s almost three-year Ukraine offensive. Prices …
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Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was a surprise guest at the final gig of former band-mate Paul McCartney’s London tour, with the pair reuniting to play some of the Fab Four’s greatest hits.”I’ve had a great night tonight, it’s been a great show,” the 84-year-old drummer said late Thursday as he took the stage at London’s …
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President Emmanuel Macron faced accusations of racism Friday over an alleged comment on problems in French hospitals which the Elysee strongly denies he made.It comes a day after he was also accused of sexist remarks about women opposition leaders and a homophobic quip about a former prime minister he appointed himself. Le Monde daily said that …
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