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Total dependence on Russian natural gas and electrical energy from breakaway Transnistria has caused the current Moldovan Government to take action during its final months in power. Moldova’s parliament speaker Andrian Candu said on Tuesday evening...

Partition would herald the demise of Kosovo as a multi-ethnic society, and mark the failure of the EU-facilitated dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia aimed at mutual recognition within Kosovo’s current frontiers. Partition is not a new...

President Hashim Thaci said that a ‘correction’ of Kosovo’s border with southern Serbia, not partition of the country along ethnic lines, will be a factor in Pristina’s final deal on normalising relations with Belgrade. Hashim Thaci...

For the first 36 hours after Hurricane Maria, five-year-old Keydiel and his mother Shaina were trapped by the toppled trees that blocked the doors to their home in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Eventually, neighbors cleared the sturdy tamarind...

The president of the Ivory Coast has pardoned 800 people including the former first lady Simone Gbagbo, who was serving a 20-year sentence for her role in the deadly post-election violence of 2010. Gbagbo was convicted of undermining...

Donald Trump has warned America’s trading partners that anyone who does business with Iran will not be doing business with the US, after his administration reimposed blanket sanctions. The US president described the new sanctions, which hit...

Germany is trying to boost cyber defense with the Bundeswehr’s Cyber and Information Domain Service (CIDS), against the background of rising numbers of cyberattacks as well as funding and recruitment challenges. Along a broad, tree-lined avenue...

A German woman and her partner have been jailed after prostituting a 9-year-old boy to pedophiles they found online. Investigators say it’s one of the most horrific child abuse cases they’ve ever seen. A court in...

In a raid on Monday night, Macedonian police arrested seven people suspected of participating as foreign fighters in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. The detained suspects, all Macedonian nationals aged between 23 and 47, are...

Andreea Tanasescu had no idea what she was starting when, in 2011, she uploaded to Facebook a photo of her best friend cradling her sleeping baby. The friend wore a white shirt, off the shoulder and...