Russia on Tuesday denounced as illegal and “unacceptable” US strikes on boats from Venezuela — a Moscow ally — that Washington says are transporting drugs.
“This is how, in general, lawless countries act, as well as those who consider themselves above the law,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised remarks, questioning what he called the United States’ “pretext of fighting drugs.”
A German court on Tuesday sentenced three Syrian men to prison for involvement in a foreign terrorist group during the civil war after a trial that lasted more than a year. The three defendants, identified only partially as Amer Tarak A., Sohail A. and Basel O., received sentences ranging from
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday that the truth would win out after he was released from prison under judicial supervision ahead of an appeal trial over Libyan funding. Sarkozy, 70, earlier Monday left La Sante prison in Paris — a 20-day experience the former president called a
The US Senate on Monday approved a compromise that would end the longest government shutdown in US history, breaking a weeks-long stalemate that has disrupted food benefits for millions, left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid and snarled air traffic. The 60-40 vote passed with the support of nearly
Rescuers using backhoes and chainsaws began digging the Philippines out from the devastation of Typhoon Fung-wong on Tuesday, as floodwaters receded in hundreds of villages and the storm’s death toll climbed to 18. Fung-wong, which displaced 1.4 million people, had weakened into a severe tropical storm even as
