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Russians to stay off work for a week as virus deaths rise
MOSCOW (AP) ??" President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered most Russians to stay off work for a week later this month amid rising COVID-19 infections and deaths, and he strongly urged reluctant citizens to get vaccinated.The government coronavirus task force reported 1,028 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. That brought Russia's death toll to 226,353, by far the highest in Europe.
Putin said he supports the Cabinet's proposal to introduce a nonworking period starting Oct. 30 and extending through the following week, when... Read More
Russia hosts Afghan talks, calls for an inclusive government
MOSCOW (AP) ??" Russia hosted talks on Afghanistan on Wednesday involving senior representatives of the Taliban and neighboring nations, a round of diplomacy that underlined Moscow's clout in Central Asia.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov opened the talks and emphasized that "forming a really inclusive government fully reflecting the interests of not only all ethnic groups but all political forces of the country" is necessary to achieve a stable peace in Afghanistan, a nation of 39 million people.
Russia had worked for years to establish contacts with the Taliban,... Read More
Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny wins top EU prize
BRUSSELS (AP) ??" Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was awarded the European Union's top human rights prize Wednesday in a clear slap at President Vladimir Putin.In awarding the Sakharov Prize to Navalny, the European Parliament praised his "immense personal bravery." The 45-year-old activist was poisoned with a nerve agent last year and promptly arrested upon his return to Moscow from treatment in Germany and later imprisoned.
"He has campaigned consistently against the corruption of Vladimir Putin's regime, and through his social media accounts and... Read More
Spanish court rules to extradite Venezuela spy chief to US
MADRID (AP) ??" A Spanish court on Wednesday ordered the extradition of a former Venezuelan spy chief to the United States where he is wanted on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to a terror organization.Retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, who for more than a decade advised the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez before breaking with his successor, had been resisting extradition since he was arrested in Spain in April 2019.
Carvajal had avoided extradition to the U.S. when he was picked up in Aruba in 2014 on the same New York indictment that Spanish authorities... Read More
Bus bombs kill 14 in Syria capital; shells elsewhere kill 10
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ??" Two bombs attached to a bus carrying Syrian troops exploded in Damascus during the morning rush hour Wednesday, a military official said. Fourteen people were killed in the attack, one of the deadliest in the capital in years.While the Syrian government's decade-long conflict with insurgents continues in parts of the country including the rebel-held northwest, bombings in Damascus have become exceedingly rare since President Bashar Assad's troops pushed opposition fighters from the capital's suburbs in 2018.
The explosions, which also left... Read More
Top Stories in International News
- Russians to stay off work for a week as virus deaths rise
- Russia hosts Afghan talks, calls for an inclusive government
- Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny wins top EU prize
- Spanish court rules to extradite Venezuela spy chief to US
- Bus bombs kill 14 in Syria capital; shells elsewhere kill 10
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