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ATHENS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, a self-declared "erratic" Marxist, has been charged with promoting drug use after he publicly admitted to having popped an...

PARIS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe could lose his seat as mayor of the port city of Le Havre in municipal elections next month, an opinion poll showed, dealing a p...

By Emmanuel Bruce ACCRA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Four fishing boats came under attack by unidentified gunmen in the seas off central Ghana early on Thursday, triggering a search-and-rescue operation by the...

MOSCOW/ALMATY, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russian state-owned Rosatom said on Thursday that it would continue its foreign nuclear power plant projects and keep meeting its obligations despite new British sanc...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The U.N. expert on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, denounced on Thursday what she described as "toxic" attacks impacting her personal ...

JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI, Feb 26 (Reuters) - South Africa and Kenya faced more signs on Thursday of citizens being drawn into the war in Ukraine, as Pretoria reported two South Africans killed on the fron...

PARIS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A French court on Thursday convicted an Iranian national of glorifying terrorism in social media posts. * The court sentenced Mahdieh Esfandiari, a student living in the city...

MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it will help select and train Myanmar's first cosmonaut in a sign of growing ties with the Southeast Asian state. The offer was made during a visit t...

By Angelo Amante ROME, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Italy's ruling parties have agreed on a sweeping overhaul of the electoral law, two sources said on Thursday, a move opposition parties say is designed to kee...

By Philippe LeroyBeaulieu Feb 26 (Reuters) - Italy has arrested a 50-year-old Burundian man in connection with the murder of three Italian missionary nuns in the east African country's commercial capi...