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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a popular cookbook author and blogger to nine years in prison after convicting her in absentia of spreading false information about the country’s military. The trial was part of the Kremlin’s sweeping, months-long crackdown on dissent. The charges against Veronika Belotserkovskaya, who lives abroad, …

Russian rescue workers will fly to Syria and Turkey after a huge earthquake killed about 1,700 people and injured thousands more, the Kremlin said on Monday. President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan to express his condolences over the death and destruction …

Four children and a woman died when a boat carrying at least 41 migrants crashed Sunday on a rocky coast on the Greek island of Leros, authorities said. Greece’s Coast Guard said it was alerted by a person who saw a body floating at sea. Three vessels and a helicopter, …

Mali’s government has ordered the U.N. peacekeeping mission’s human rights chief to leave the country by Tuesday, declaring him persona non grata in the latest sign of tensions between Mali’s leaders and the international community. A government statement Sunday criticized Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali for choosing someone who represented Malian civil …

A special plane transporting the body of Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf from the United Arab Emirates arrived in Karachi on Monday amid tight security, immigration officials said. Family members were also on board when the plane landed at the airport in the city where he will be buried Tuesday. …

India, France and the United Arab Emirates on Saturday agreed on a trilateral initiative to undertake energy projects with a focus on solar and nuclear sources, fight climate change and protect biodiversity, particularly in the Indian Ocean region. The countries will organize trilateral events in the framework of the Indian …

Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called on Western powers not to pressure his tiny Balkan country into accepting a contentious association of five Serb-majority municipalities that is ramping up tensions between Kosovo and Serbia. Kurti told The Associated Press that the focus instead should be on making Serbia more …

North Korea’s capital Pyongyang is expected to hold mass military parades this week but the country’s leader Kim Jong Un hasn’t been seen in public for more than a month.  NK News, a South Korean-based outlet, reports that Kim skipped a Politburo meeting on Sunday – the third time he’s …

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss said she did not have time to listen to President Biden’s comments about her budget being a “mistake” in October because she was too busy dealing with issues of energy and security, according to reports. Biden said on Oct. 15, 2022, that Truss’ push …

A court in Georgia on Monday rejected an appeal for former president Mikheil Saakashvili to be released from prison on health grounds. Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s president in 2004-13 and led the so-called Rose Revolution protests that drove the previous president out of office, left for Ukraine after the …