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A former Colombian general has been sentenced to 31 years in prison almost four decades after a deadly operation to free hostages from the country's Justice Palace which was occupied by guerilla forces, local media reported on Wednesday. Members of the now extinct Marxist guerrilla movement M-19 occupied the seat of Colombia's Supreme Court on November 6, 1985, in what became known as the Palace of Justice siege. They held the Supreme Court justices as well as dozens of other people hostage. When the military stormed the building a day later, 98 people, including Supreme Court justices, were k...
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Eight EU states are calling for the freedom of movement of Russian diplomats to be significantly restricted, saying many are involved in propoganda or preparing acts of sabotage, in a letter to the EU's top diplomat on Thursday. Specifically, they want members of Russia's diplomatic missions and their families to only be allowed to stay in the country in which they are working, said the foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania in the letter to EU Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell. "This measure will significant...
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Lithuania extended a ban on the broadcasting and retransmission of radio and television programmes from Russian and Belarusian broadcasters, without an initial limit to the restriction, after lawmakers agreed on the step on Thursday. The ban applies as long as Russia and its close ally Belarus are considered a danger and threat to the security of the Baltic EU and NATO country in the national security strategy, parliament agreed almost unanimously, in an amendment to a law. Lithuania, which shares borders with Russian exclave Kaliningrad and Belarus, a close ally of Russia, is also home to a m...
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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin welcomes the debate about a return of Russian youth teams to international football competition in an effort to help overcome a growing climate of hate but also said there was no overall pressure to bring Russia back. Europe's UEFA and the world governing body FIFA banned all Russian teams from international events shortly after the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This position has not changed amid the ongoing war, and a UEFA plan from September to re-admit Russian youth teams as neutrals ended after more than 10 national federations sa...
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Sweden has announced that it will take part in airspace monitoring under NATO command, just three months after joining the military alliance. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced the move in a statement on Friday. Swedish fighter planes are to be deployed as part of the NATO Air Policing mission, primarily over the Baltic states. "Sweden has been determined to be an active NATO member from day one, and now the journey can really begin," Kristersson said after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a military base near Stockholm. Sweden joined NATO on March 7. Sweden, whi...
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Armenian police have made more than 200 arrests after tens of thousands of protesters joined countrywide demonstrations calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to step down, a dpa correspondent in Yerevan reported on Monday. The demonstrators blocked streets in many locations, accusing Pashinyan of making territorial concessions to neighbouring Azerbaijan to secure a peace treaty. The protests, which have been running for weeks, are being led by Bagrat Galstanyan, archbishop of the Tavush diocese in north-eastern Armenia. Galstanyan has recently emerged as a vocal opponent of Pashinyan. He ...
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The Asian football federation AFC is supporting the Palestinian football body's request for sanctions against the Israeli football association ahead of the FIFA Congress in Bangkok due to the ongoing war in Gaza. "The AFC stands together with the Palestinian federation, and we join them in seeking effective football-related solutions to the grievances raised by the Palestinian federation in their proposal," AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said on Thursday. "It is our duty to support the Palestinian federation for a swift and effective resolution in line with the rules, regul...
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Minor riots broke out in Berlin on Wednesday evening following a peaceful demonstration to commemorate Nakba Day (Catastrophe Day), commemorating the flight and displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the first Middle East war in 1948. According to German police, demonstrators set fire to rubbish bins and fire-crackers were set off. The police detained several demonstrators. The number of people involved was in the double-digit range, a police spokeswoman said. According to authorities, around 200 people had initially gathered on the Berlin street Sonnenallee following an appeal ...
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Ukrainian athletes has been given recommendations by their own Olympic committee over how to deal with Russian and Belarusians at the Paris Olympics in July and August. Ukraine had threatened to boycott the Games after the International Olympic Committee decided Russians and Belarusians who do not openly support the invasion of Ukraine and have no army connections can compete as neutrals. Kiev has now reluctantly opted to take part. According to the recommendations published on Thursday, any contact with "representatives of the aggressor states" inside and outside the Olympic venues is discour...
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Ukraine has once again called for the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics. In an open letter on Friday, the country said some of the athletes competing under a neutral flag, who have qualified for the Games, support Russia's war in Ukraine. The letter was addressed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United World Wrestling (UWW). Ten wrestlers were named in the letter - including Russian freestyle specialists Zaur Uguev and Zaurbek Sidakov, who each won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Several links to videos and social media posts as a...
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