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Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev seen in this file photo.
Bulgarian president asks Socialists to form government
SOFIA — Bulgaria's president asked the Socialists to form a new government on Monday, amid a long-running political crisis.Rumen Radev gave the Socialist Party a mandate to try and create a new government in a last attempt to avoid the country's fifth general election in two years.Amid a cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine, Bulgarian politics has taken a bumpy turn recently, with successive governments collapsing due to resignations and no-confidence votes.Although their chances of success are dim, Socialist leader Kornelia Ninova said her party would make every effort to establish "a regular government, which this country badly needs at this point.”Radev's move came after the two main groups in Bulgaria's parliament — the center-right GERB party and the...
January 17, 2023

Bulgarian president asks Socialists to form government

The Wagner Group offices in St Petersburg
Former Wagner commander flees to Norway and seeks asylum
MOSCOW — A former commander in Russia’s Wagner private military company has fled to Norway and is seeking asylum after crossing that country’s arctic border, according to Norwegian police and a Russian activist.Andrei Medvedev, in an interview with a Russian activist who helps people seek asylum abroad, said that he feared for his life after refusing to renew his service with Wagner.Medvedev said that after completing his contract, and refusing to serve another, he was afraid of being executed in the same manner of Yevgeny Nuzhin – a defector from Wagner who was killed on camera with a sledgehammer.“We were just thrown to fight like cannon fodder,” he told Vladimir Osechkin, head of Gulagu.net, a human rights advocacy group, in a conversation published on YouTube.A spokesperson...
January 17, 2023

Former Wagner commander flees to Norway and seeks asylum

President Recep Tayyib Erdogan delivers a speech at the presidential complex in Ankara, Turkey, on January 11
'Hand over your terrorists': Turkey ramps up pressure on NATO hopefuls Sweden and Finland
ANKARA — Sweden and Finland must deport some 130 "terrorists" to Turkey before Ankara will approve their bids to join NATO, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.Turkey has blocked bids by the two Nordic states to join the western military alliance since they applied in May. Under NATO rules, all 30 members must agree before a new one can be admitted.Turkey wants Sweden and Finland to meet several political demands, including extraditing Kurds it considers terrorists and claims are linked to the PKK, critics of Erdogan and lifting arms export bans on Ankara.Hungary is also yet to endorse their NATO applications."We said look, so if you don't hand over your terrorists to us, we can't pass it [approval of the NATO application] through the parliament...
January 17, 2023

'Hand over your terrorists': Turkey ramps up pressure on NATO hopefuls Sweden and Finland

Thousands of people march down Edinburgh's Royal Mile to mark the city's 21st Pride festival, Saturday July 2, 2016.
London overrules Scottish parliament to block gender law
LONDON — The UK government decided to block a Scottish law on changing gender on Monday, risking a standoff between London and the devolved government in Edinburgh.The law -- passed by a wide margin in December with support from all five political parties in the Holyrood parliament -- makes it easier for people to legally change their gender, but is now opposed by London over concerns about its possible impact on UK-wide equality laws.This is the first time London has used its legal powers to block a law in Scotland.Under the Scotland Act of 1998, a devolved government was created in Scotland, which gave the country a greater say over how it is run. But many areas of law and policy remain under London's control, which is the supreme authority.Monday's move risks sparking another...
January 17, 2023

London overrules Scottish parliament to block gender law

David Carrick has been suspended from duty at the Metropolitan Police. — courtesy Social Media
Met Police officer Carrick admits to being serial rapist
LONDON — A Metropolitan Police armed officer who used his role to put fear into his victims has admitted dozens of rape and sexual offenses against 12 women.David Carrick, 48, who met some victims through dating websites, pleaded guilty to 49 offenses, across two decades.The Met has apologized after it emerged he had come to the attention of police over nine incidents, including rape allegations, between 2000 and 2021.A senior officer said his offending was “unprecedented in policing”.Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray, the Met’s lead for professionalism, said: “We should have spotted his pattern of abusive behavior and because we didn’t, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organization.“We are truly sorry that being able to continue to use his role as a police...
January 16, 2023

Met Police officer Carrick admits to being serial rapist

In a still from a video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Dec. 28, 2022, Russian troops take part in drills at an unspecified location in Belarus. — courtesy Russian Defense Ministry Press Service
Russia and Belarus start joint drills, sparking fears of a new Ukraine offensive
MOSCOW/ MINSK —Russia and Belarus began joint military exercises on Monday, sparking fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow could use its ally to launch a fresh ground offensive in Ukraine.Russia used its neighbor Belarus as a springboard to invade Ukraine last February.The two countries will conduct air force drills from Jan. 16 to Feb. 1 using all Belarus military airfields and began joint army exercises involving a “mechanized brigade subdivision” on Monday, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said.Minsk is claiming that the drills are “defensive in nature” and that it has no plans to enter the war, accusing Ukraine of “provoking” Belarus and causing turmoil at the two countries’ border.“We’re maintaining restraint and patience, keeping our gunpowder dry,” stated Pavel...
January 16, 2023

Russia and Belarus start joint drills, sparking fears of a new Ukraine offensive

People gather during a protest in support of public health care in Madrid, Spain.
Tens of thousands of Spanish health workers protest regional government cuts
MADRID — Tens of thousands of health workers took to Madrid’s streets to protest healthcare cuts by the conservative regional government.Wearing white coats and banging drums, many chanted: “cutting public health is criminal.”Approximately 30,000 protesters attended the demonstration, a regional government spokesman said.Madrid’s regional government, led by the Popular Party’s Isabel Diaz Ayuso, has been heavily criticized in the past few years, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, for poor staffing in hospitals and primary healthcare centers.Protesters say it is damaging the health care system by dismantling public health services and favoring private health providers.Moreover, the rally’s organizers claim that, despite Madrid being the country’s capital...
January 16, 2023

Tens of thousands of Spanish health workers protest regional government cuts

Two French police officers in Paris question a woman after the 6 p.m. curfew on March 17, 2020. — courtesy Daniel Brown/PA.
Crime in Paris falls but still not a ‘positive situation’, say police
PARIS — Crime in the French capital has fallen in recent months, but remains “structurally high”, according to the prefect of police in Paris, Laurent Nuñez.Speaking in the Journal of Sunday, Nuñez noted that criminality in Paris and the surrounding suburbs had dropped over the last six months, though he added the situation was still not “positive”.Burglaries and incidents of domestic violence actually rose during the same period.Nuñez, who was appointed in July 2022, reported that property damage fell by 2% in the suburbs and 5% in the center of the city, while violent thefts in Paris’s surroundings dropped by 20% and 25% in the center.He attributed these falls to his deployment of more officers to high-crime areas and busier parts of the capital, such as metro stations or...
January 16, 2023

Crime in Paris falls but still not a ‘positive situation’, say police

Environmental activists Just Stop Oil are among those to use tactics like blocking roads. — courtesy Getty Images
New plans to widen police powers for disruptive protests
LONDON — Police could be allowed to shut down protests before they cause serious disruption, under new government plans.Downing Street said the proposals would help officers clamp down on “a disruptive minority” who use tactics like blocking roads and slow marching.It said the changes seek to give police greater flexibility and clarity over when they can intervene.But human rights group Liberty said the proposals amounted to an attack on the right to protest.The plans will be set out in an amendment to the Public Order Bill, due to be introduced on Monday.Its aim is to crack down on disruptive protests by groups like environmental activists Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, which have used tactics including blocking roads.The bill, which covers England and...
January 16, 2023

New plans to widen police powers for disruptive protests

Christine Lambrecht was widely criticized for failing to improve Germany’s notoriously ill-equipped armed forces. — courtesy photo
German Defense Minister Lambrecht resigns after blunders
BERLIN — Germany’s Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned following a series of blunders and PR disasters.It comes as Berlin comes under rising pressure to allow the delivery of German-built battle tanks to Ukraine.Lambrecht was mocked for her announcement that Germany was supporting Ukraine by sending 5,000 military helmets.She was also widely criticized for failing to improve Germany’s notoriously ill-equipped armed forces.This was despite the provision of €100 billion (£88 billion) for that task following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Lambrecht, a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), also came in for criticism when it emerged that she had taken her son on a trip in a military helicopter.But it was an awkward video she posted on New Year’s...
January 16, 2023

German Defense Minister Lambrecht resigns after blunders

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