By Kirsty Needham
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian writer Yang Hengjun's suspended death sentence has been upheld by Beijing's High People's Court, with the decision relayed to Australian officials two weeks before China's Premier Li Qiang arrived in Australia, his supporters said on Sunday.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet Li, who is making the first visit to Australia in seven years by a Chinese premier, in Canberra... (continue reading...)
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish citizen Johan Floderus said he was in seventh heaven following his release from an Iranian prison on Saturday, in a recording published on the Swedish government's website on Sunday.
Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, while Iran released two Swedes being... (continue reading...)
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German police fired shots at a person who threatened officers with a pickaxe and an incendiary device on the sidelines of a Euro 2024 soccer fan parade in central Hamburg on Sunday, according to a police post on social media platform X.
A major police operation is now underway and the attacker is currently receiving medical care for injuries, the post added.
The incident occurred in the St Pauli district of the city as... (continue reading...)
KYIV (Reuters) - Kyiv's positions have been taken into consideration in the final communique for a summit of world leaders convened to pursue peace in Ukraine's war with Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Sunday.
More than 90 countries took part in the two-day event at the Buergenstock resort in central Switzerland aimed at uniting global opinion on how to end Moscow's 27-month-old invasion.
"The text is balanced,... (continue reading...)
By Sabine Siebold
BUERGENSTOCK (Reuters) - A leading Swiss right-wing nationalist panned a summit his country was hosting in a bid to pressure Russia to end its war on Ukraine as an "embarrassment", reflecting the view that the talks are damaging for Switzerland's traditional neutrality.
The right-wing Swiss Peoples' Party (SVP), the biggest group in the lower house of parliament, says neutrality is an integral part of Switzerland's... (continue reading...)
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