Former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas faced questions in the European Parliament on Tuesday ahead of her potential confirmation for the EU’s top foreign policy job, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

Kallas served two terms as Prime Minister from 2021 to July 2024, after she took over leadership of the

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A Russian court on Wednesday ordered the arrest in absentia of International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou on charges of “unlawful detention.”

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ruled to place Alapini-Gansou in pre-trial detention for two months from the date of her extradition to Russia.

Alapini-Gansou is the second ICC judge in

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An EU courtruled Wednesday that Ukraine cannot trademark the phrase “Russian warship, go f*** yourself,” ending a two-year dispute over intellectual property rights to the viral slogan.

Ukraine’s border guard service filed a trademark application on March 16, 2022, three weeks after a Ukrainian soldier uttered the defiant phrase during a radio e

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Ilya Yashin, a Moscow opposition deputy and ally of late politician Alexei Navalny, was one of 16 prisoners freed by Russia in a historic exchange with the West on Aug. 1. He had been serving an 8.5-year sentence for denouncing the invasion of Ukraine.

On Nov. 17, Yashin, Yulia Navalnaya and Vladimir Kara-Murza will

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Russia intensified its attacks on Kyiv early Wednesday, launching a combined assault of drones and missiles on the capital for the first time in over 70 days, local authorities reported.

The attack coincided with new warnings from the U.S. State Department, which echoed Ukrainian claims that North Korean troops have begun "engaging in combat

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will for a second year in a row combine his annual press conference and televised call-in show next month, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskovsaid Wednesday.

“The unified format, which will combine the annual press conference with elements of a direct line, will take place in the second half of December,” Peskov told rep

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