Russia's Supreme Court announced on Telegram on April 9 that the activities of human rights organization Memorial were now banned throughout the country. This came after a closed-door hearing that was treated as "top secret."
The coalition of Merz's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to "a comprehensive rollback of bureaucracy" in its agreement last April. What did the survey say?
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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