Sean Middleton

French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Tuesday during a meeting with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to help mediate the Belarusian political crisis. Macron spoke to Tichanovskaya in the Lithuanian capital…

The struggle between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh must stop immediately. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said this Monday. The Kremlin urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to stop all military activities that further inflame…

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is likely to stay in Germany for the foreseeable future, where he was released from the hospital this week. President Putin's well-known critic's spokeswoman stressed that his recovery is…

China has built as many as 380 re-education camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang in the past three years to detain Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, an Australian think tank has reported. The organization relies on…

Russia faces difficulties in investigating the Navalny case now that evidence has been removed. That is what the Kremlin says on Tuesday. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was transported to Germany by plane…

The UK will face an exponentially growing death rate from Covid-19 within weeks unless Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government acts quickly to stop the rapidly spreading second wave of corona infections. The country's principal…

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya addressed the UN Human Rights Council via video link on Friday, calling for fair presidential elections in her country. She also called on the Belarusian authorities not to use…

Rich countries, where a total of 13 percent of the world's population lives, have already bought up half of the corona vaccines before they are made, according to Oxfam. The human rights organization warns that at least two-thirds…

The European Union is organizing an international summit on health in Italy next year. The fight against the coronavirus, which hit the host hard last spring, will be an essential topic. The summit is one of the plans of European…

According to sources from the German news agency DPA, Germany wants to admit 1,500 refugees who were in the burned-down refugee camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos. It would mainly concern women and children. The proposal has…