(Reuters) - Ukraine said on Monday it thwarted a Russian operation to set off a series of bomb attacks in builder's markets and near a cafe in the capital of Kyiv, and at a defence enterprise in the western city of Lviv.
Two Russian military agents were detained on suspicion of involvement in the alleged plot and 19 explosive devices were seized, the prosecutor general's office wrote on the Telegram app.
The Security Service of... (continue reading...)
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece threatened on Monday to hinder North Macedonia's bid to join the EU after newly elected president Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova called her country just "Macedonia" during a speech, reviving a long-running dispute over the name.
Siljanovska-Davkova - who got backing from a resurgent nationalist party in last week's vote - referred to the formerly widely-used name during her inauguration on Sunday, violating a U.N.-brokered... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - Authorities in China were expected on Monday to release a citizen journalist jailed for four years after she documented the early phases of the coronavirus outbreak from the central city of Wuhan in 2020.
Zhang Zhan, 40, had travelled to Wuhan in early 2020 from Shanghai where she was based, posting first-hand accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets that painted a more dire picture of the pandemic than the official narrative.
... (continue reading...)(Reuters) -India's retail inflation rate eased slightly in April, partly due to lower fuel prices, although food prices remained elevated, government data showed on Monday.
Annual retail inflation in April was 4.83%, down from 4.85% in March. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast April retail inflation at 4.80%.
Food inflation, which accounts for nearly half of the overall consumer price basket, rose 8.70% in April, compared with an 8.52%... (continue reading...)
ASTANA (Reuters) - A former economy minister of Kazakhstan was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Monday for murdering his wife, a Reuters reporter in the court said, following a widely watched trial that some see as a litmus test of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's promise to build a fairer, more equitable society.
Shocking footage played during the trial that began in March showed Kuandyk Bishimbayev, 44, repeatedly kicking and punching a slender... (continue reading...)
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