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Sweden’s center-right coalition government wants to cut red tape when it comes to dancing by abolishing a decade-old requirement for restaurants, nightclubs and other venues to obtain permits before they let patrons shimmy and sway. The proposal made Thursday means that venues no longer would need a license to organize …

Belarusian investigators are using a photo of an opposition politician shaking hands with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as evidence in a criminal case tied to the mass protests after Belarus’ disputed 2020 presidential election. The Investigative Committee of Belarus on Friday published the photo of Andrey Dzmitryeu, …

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that inaction by the country’s former president and four others led to Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people and ordered them to pay compensation for violating the basic rights of the victims and their families. A seven-judge bench of …

India and China, the world’s two most populous nations and both of which have nuclear warheads, are at tense loggerheads over a territorial dispute in the eastern Ladakh area bordering both countries. “I would say the situation is stable and under control, yet unpredictable,” India’s army Chief of Staff Gen. …

A regional government’s move to restrict abortion rights in a large part of central Spain reignited debate Friday on the issue in the southern European country, in the runup to this year’s local elections. Under the new measures adopted by the conservative and far-right coalition governing the Castile and León …

A Massachusetts woman is being mourned after she died in a fall from a Mexican Airbnb balcony. Authorities arrested her boyfriend before declaring the death accidental.  Leah “Lee” Pearse, a 20-year-old nurse’s assistant from Newburyport, Massachusetts, who was studying to be a nurse, slipped and fell from a third-story balcony …

Air strikes by Myanmar’s military on two villages inhabited largely by ethnic Karen killed five civilians, including a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, and destroyed two churches, two relief organizations said Friday. The dead from the air strikes on Thursday also included the pastor of a Baptist church, a Catholic …

North Korea’s spike in missile testing and development of its nuclear program has prompted South Korea to re-evaluate its defense capabilities, including the potential development of a nuclear arsenal.  Speaking from a defense policy briefing Wednesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Seoul would need to seek changes to …

The horde of rioters who invaded government buildings on Jan. 8 in an attack on Brazil’s democracy left behind a trail of destruction whose full scope is only now coming into full view. Following a painstaking survey of the ruins, the national artistic heritage institute on Thursday night released a …

Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was found not guilty Friday of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault. Jurors at Chester Crown Court in northwest England could not reach verdicts on two other allegations against Mendy — one of attempted rape and another of rape — and were …