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Lviv, Ukraine, Dec 6 (EFE).- Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday visited the town of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region to meet with troops on the eastern frontline, to mark the Day of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “I meet with our fighters on the front on this day. Today we...
Jakarta, Aug 5 (EFE).- A crowd gathered in front of the Indonesian Parliament in the capital city of Jakarta on Monday to protest against the imminent approval of the country’s penal code, which, among other measures, will make sex outside marriage punishable with imprisonment. The reform in the penal code,...
Vienna, Dec 3 (EFE).- Moscow will stop supplying oil to Europe this year, following the bloc’s move, alongside the G7 and Australia, to cap the price of Russian seaborne oil, Russia’s representative to international organizations in Vienna said on Saturday. «Starting from this year Europe will live without Russian oil....
Moscow, Dec 2 (EFE).- Russia on Friday said the United States and other Western countries’ refusal to recognise territories in eastern and southern Ukraine it annexed illegally in September was hindering peace negotiations. At a White House press conference alongside French president Emmanuel Macron on Thursday evening, US president Joe...
By Alvaro AlfaroBeijing, Dec 2 (EFE).- After several cities in China eased coronavirus restrictions following protests in recent days, the country’s authorities said that conditions were in place for the country to adjust its anti-pandemic measures. Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who is in charge of supervising the country’s «zero Covid»...
Lodz, Poland, Dec 1 (EFE).- Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said Thursday that Russia should be removed from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Ukraine’s top diplomat made the statements ahead of a Thursday ministerial meeting in Poland titled ‘OSCE at the crossroads’. «I dared to disagree with...
Madrid, Nov 30 (EFE).- Luis Felipe Palacios, EFE news agency’s correspondent in Managua, has been banned from entering Nicaragua by the country’s authorities. The Nicaraguan journalist was due to return to the Central American nation after a work trip to Panama. Palacios, who began working at EFE in 2006 and...
Jerusalem, Nov 30 (EFE).- A Palestinian man has been killed during a fresh Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, amid the worst wave of violence in the region in years. “A citizen with gunshot wounds to the chest succumbed to his critical injuries in the town...
Madrid, Nov 30 (EFE).- Spain on Wednesday insisted that no deaths were recorded on its territory during a mass attempt by migrants to storm the border to the Spanish enclave of Melilla earlier this year in which 23 people died. On June 24, some 23 people died in an attempt...
By David Asta Alares New Delhi, Nov 30 (EFE).- As electric-vehicles fires have become a common occurrence in India, with some incidents causing casualties and alarming customers, authorities are seeking to address the issue with stricter norms that come into effect from Thursday. Eight people were killed and a dozen...
Shanghai, China, Nov 30 (EFE).- Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who held office between 1993 and 2003, has died on Thursday aged 96, China’s official state news agency Xinhua reported. In a brief statement, Xinhua said that the former president died in the eastern city of Shanghai, where he led...
Islamabad, Nov 29 (EFE).- General Asim Munir took charge Tuesday as Pakistan’s army chief, considered the most powerful post in the country, replacing Qamar Javed Bajwa, who retired after six years at the helm. At a ceremony held in the city of Rawalpindi, where the headquarters of the Armed Forces...
