The European Anti-Fraud Office(OLAF) has concluded that Bulgarian Interior Ministry breached the provisions of €6 million EU fund to purchase 350 all-terrain vehicles for the police.
A Moscow court turned a 2014 suspended sentence into real jail time, sending Kremlin’s most prominent critic Alexey Navalny to jail for nearly three years. World leaders have condemned the ruling and urged Navalny’s release.
A Moscow court has sentenced Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years on charges that he violated the terms of his probation while recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning.
More than 280 people were detained in Moscow for protesting a court hearing that decides if Navalny should be jailed for violating the terms of a suspended sentence he was given on embezzlement charges in 2014.
Since taking the office in 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin has systematically repressed all opposition figures, organisations and protests by using violent police crackdowns and alleged assassinations.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said he had approved Kosovo's "formal request to open an embassy in Jerusalem."
The US, Germany and France have condemned Moscow's detention of Navalny and a crackdown on his supporters.
Alexey Navalny's supporters in Moscow gathered near the Kremlin and outside the FSB headquarter.
Signed in 2010, New START caps at 1,550 the number of nuclear warheads that can be deployed by Moscow and Washington, which control the world's largest nuclear arsenals.
Authorities say at least five people have died in the fire that broke out on the ground floor of a hospital in Bucharest. The cause of the blaze still remains unknown.
Several allies and supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny have been detained in Moscow after mass protests demanding his release from prison drew tens of thousands to the streets in over 100 Russian cities.
The ruling means that all abortions in Poland will be banned except in cases of rape and incest, or when the mother's life or health are considered to be at risk.
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