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Spain

Spain to offer reparations to victims of ex-dictator Franco's regime

Government proposes law that would outlaw Franco's charitable foundation and turn his civil war mausoleum into a 'civilian cemetery'

USA

Kardashian West and DiCaprio among celebrities in Instagram boycott

Dozens of celebrities join 24-hour social media 'freeze' as #StopHateForProfit campaign bids to highlight hate speech on Facebook's platforms

United Kingdom

How does Boris Johnson's new Brexit bill violate international law?

Legal experts say a bill proposed by the UK is designed to override key portions of a deal on Northern Ireland signed less than a year ago

Ukraine

I would repeat Belarus election, Ukraine's leader Zelensky says

Exclusive: Volodymyr Zelensky says if Lukashenko were 'confident' of his chances, he would hold a fresh election in a month and permit foreign observers

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United Kingdom

Britain scraps algorithm for student exam grades after outcry

Education officials say the results will be based on teachers' predictions after students complained their grades had been unfairly reduced

Norway

Norwegian star skier Petter Northug admits cocaine and speeding charge

The two-time Olympic champion is charged with possession and driving under the influence of drugs after saying he made a 'big mistake'

USA

54.4°C temperature in California's Death Valley could be new record

If confirmed, this is the hottest temperature recorded since July 1931.

Greece

Seven killed in floods after torrential downpours on Greek island

Authorities in the Greek island of Evia say seven people have died and dozens remain trapped in their homes and cars after flash floods caused by a torrential downpour.

World News

Putin reveals plan to expand Russia's navy with 40 new vessels

Vladimir Putin announces new ships and hypersonic weapons for Russia's navy during a ceremony in St Petersburg.

World News

World hunger rising and COVID-19 threatens to make it worse, says UN

It's put a UN deadline to eradicate hunger by 2030 in severe doubt.

Russia

Dozens held in Moscow protest against ex-journalist's treason charges

Ivan Safronov was arrested last week on suspicion of leaking secrets to a NATO country, but the Kremlin says the allegations do not relate to his work as a journalist.

Australia

Australian governor who fired sitting PM 'given assurances by Queen'

Elizabeth II's private secretary told the Governor-General who sparked Australia's biggest constitutional crisis that he could dissolve parliament

Republic of North Macedonia

North Macedonia prepares for first election since name change

Opinion polls suggest the country's two main parties, which both support EU membership, are running neck-and-neck ahead of Wednesday's election

Russia

Thousands join weekend of anti-government protests in eastern Russia

Locals called for Vladimir Putin to step down as they demonstrated against the arrest of the Khabarovsk region's governor Sergei Furgal

Serbia

Serbia and Kosovo's leaders agree to meet in person for Brussels talks

European Union officials praise the two sides, but neither appeared to shift their position on Serbian recognition of Kosovo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

'Lessons learned' after Srebrenica massacre, former UN judge says

Judge Carmel Agius, the last president of the UN court examining atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, says justice is only a partial solution to war crimes.

Austria

Chechens protest over 'Kremlin-backed' killing of activist in Vienna

Austrian police say last weekend's killing of the 43-year-old, named locally as Anzor Umarov, could be politically motivated

Turkey

Court to rule if Istanbul's Hagia Sophia should be a mosque again

Regular religious services have not been held there since 1934 when modern Turkey's founding president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk signed an order converting the building into a museum. But a legal challenge claims the signature was forged.

Norway

Work begins to unearth Norway's first Viking ship in a century

Archaeologists believe the war ship had up to 35 rowers and could have carried up to 100 men on board

Ireland

Irish parties await members' verdict on three-way coalition deal

The agreement reached by bitter rivals Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael could be rejected on Friday by members of the Green Party, a junior partner

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