Europe

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 …

French opponent Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused President Emmanuel Macron this Wednesday of having “once again compromised France in supporting the unbearable to the end”, with his support for Gabonese President Ali Bongo. His comments come after the overthrown of President Ali Bongo, in power for 14 years. “Now, Gabon has only …

UN Secretary General António Guterres has expressed concern over the arrest of Zimbabwe election observers amid “reports of voter intimidation, threats of violence, harassment and coercion”. He has called on political leaders and their supporters to reject all forms of violence and respect human rights and the rule of law. …

Vladimir Putin sent his condolences on Thursday to the ten victims of the plane crash which linked Moscow and Saint Petersburg on Wednesday and whose passenger list included the name of Yevgeny Prigojine, boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner. The Russian president thus saluted the memory of a “talented …