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Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the North Korean president’s invitation to visit the Asian country, the official North Korean agency KCNA reported and later confirmed by the Kremlin. The invitation comes after a meeting between the two leaders in Russia. “Kim Jong-un courteously invited Putin to visit the DPRK (Democratic …

Belgian justice opened an investigation this Wednesday for “arson”, after fires broke out during the night in four schools targeted by opponents of a sex education course. The events occurred in Charleroi (south of the country). “In the four schools, at the nursery and primary level, registrations were discovered hostile …

A thousand cases of s3xual abuse have been documented in a survey of the Swiss Catholic Church, according to reports. More than 1,000 victims of abuse, the majority of them men, since the 1950s: that’s the conclusion of the investigation commissioned by the Swiss Catholic Church itself to shed light …

On Monday, German authorities announced that the two schoolgirls who confessed to the murder of one of their 12-year-old classmate last March in Freudenberg would not be prosecuted. Aged 12 and 13, they are not held criminally responsible. On March 11, when she was supposed to return home after visiting …

A former soldier has been jailed seven years for living a double life married to two women at the same time in Britain and Germany. The man had five children with his two wives and lived with one family in Germany, where he was stationed with the Army, and visited …

Large sums of money have already been pledged to Africa at the ongoing climate summit in Kenya, with the UK among the first to make a commitment. It is to invest £49m ($61m) in new projects to help Africans manage the impact of climate change and mobilise finance for climate …

The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen warned on Monday of the “real danger” of wolf packs in the European Union, announcing a possible review of the protection status for this animal. “The concentration of wolf packs in certain European regions has become a real danger for …

Swedish police arrested more than ten people this Sunday after scenes of violence in Malmö following a rally during which a copy of the Koran was once again burned. According to public television channel SVT, around 200 people came to watch the scene. “Spectators showed their emotion after the organizer …

Josep Borrell, the head of European diplomacy, insisted on Thursday on the difference between the coups in Niger and Gabon, declaring that the elections in Gabon were marred by irregularities. “Naturally, military coups are not the solution but we must not forget that in Gabon there were elections full of …

Russia, Bamako’s ally, vetoed on Wednesday a UN Security Council resolution extending sanctions against Malians threatening peace in the country, which the Malian junta was demanding be lifted. The resolution which planned to extend for one year the sanctions regime put in place in 2017 against individuals endangering the 2015 …