Larisa Shevandin hasn't seen her husband Oleh for 11 years. An athlete and the president of a local martial arts association in his hometown of Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, Oleh was abducted in May 2015.
On March 20, only days before Friedrich Merz and interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa raised the issue of repatriating hundreds of thousands of Syrians, Basel Gawish received a letter from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).
Authorities at the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) on Saturday announced that a 27-year-old Sudanese man had been arrested in connection with the Thursday drowning deaths of four migrants in the English Channel.
People inspect the aftermath of Wednesday's Israeli airstrikes that targeted southern Beirut's al-Rihab neighborhood, April 9. AFP/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AFP/via Getty Images BEIRUT, Lebanon — It was too dangerous to meet in person.
Vice President JD Vance gives a thumb up sign as he boards Air Force Two after attending talks on Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 12, 2026.
Moscow and Kyiv continued to engage in hostilities ahead of a planned Easter ceasefire set to take hold on Saturday afternoon. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has dragged on into its fifth year, while US efforts to halt the conflict have withered significantly.
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Today, Berlin is largely seen as one of the world's most queer-friendly cities — and that was also the case roughly a century ago, before the National Socialists took power in the early 1930s.
Peter Magyar is still only Hungary's opposition leader but he's already talking as though he was elected prime minister, listing the new government's top domestic and foreign policy priorities and saying he wants to reach out to those who don't vote for him.
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On April 12, Hungary faces its most decisive parliamentary election since Hungary's communist regime stepped down voluntarily in 1989/90. The question is whether Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government can be voted out of office or not.
Trigger warning: This article contains references to physical abuse and suicide. A 40-year-old man, Lee Milne, was sentenced to eight years in prison by the High Court in Glasgow on Friday for driving his wife to suicide with his abusive behavior. He had been found guilty in March of culpable homicide.