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Azerbaijan seeks life sentence for billionaire former Karabakh official Vardanyan
BAKU/TBILISI, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Azerbaijani prosecutors on Thursday asked a Baku court for a life sentence for Ruben Vardanyan, a billionaire banker who served as a senior official in the breakaway A...
Dec 18, 2025
EU leaders think it is fair to use Russian assets for Ukraine, Polish PM says
WARSAW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - European Union leaders agree that it would be fair to use Russian assets to finance Ukraine, but there are many technical points that need to be ironed out, Polish Prime Min...
Dec 18, 2025
EU court says Denmark's ethnic-based 'ghetto law' may be discriminatory
COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The EU's top court ruled on Thursday that Denmark's 2018 "ghetto law," which relocates residents from minority-heavy areas, could amount to ethnic discrimination, dealin...
Dec 18, 2025
Russia says commission on Ukraine war damages has no legal force for Moscow
MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that an International Claims Commission for Ukraine launched by some European powers had no legal force for Russia and was driven ...
Dec 18, 2025
Germany and Spain urge EU to back Mercosur trade deal as France resists
By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS, Dec 18 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urged EU leaders on Thursday to back a contentious free trade pact with Sout...
Dec 18, 2025
Albanian parliament erupts over corruption allegations against deputy PM
TIRANA, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Opposition lawmakers scuffled with police inside the Albanian parliament on Thursday, following weeks of tensions over corruption allegations against the deputy of Prime Min...
Dec 18, 2025
Taiwan rattled by 5.1 magnitude quake, no immediate reports of damage
TAIPEI, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck 18 km (11 miles) off eastern Taiwan's Hualien city on Thursday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of dama...
Dec 18, 2025
China says arms trade with Cambodia, Thailand unrelated to border conflict
BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) - China's defence cooperation with Cambodia and Thailand, including arms trade, "does not target any third party ... and is completely unrelated to the Cambodia-Thailand bord...
Dec 18, 2025
Pope Leo replaces New York's Cardinal Dolan in shake-up of US Church
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Pope Leo replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as the leader of the Catholic Church in New York, the Vatican announced on Thursday, sidelining a prominent ...
Dec 18, 2025
White South Africans could get Trump biography for kids in refugee welcome packet
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last ...
Dec 18, 2025
