Demonstrators in Poland - close to the Belarusian border - demand that the government does more to help migrants.

Beijing had earlier expelled the Lithuanian ambassador.

Ukraine has rock-bottom vaccination rates as rumours spread that the vaccines contain microchips, are dangerous or do not stop the disease. Only 21% of Ukraine's 41 million people are fully vaccinated.

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Tens of thousands of people marched on Saturday through Paris and other cities urging the government to do more to prevent violence against women.

Thousands of protesters in Isfahan in central Iran have voiced their anger after the city’s lifeblood river dried up due to drought and diversion.

The former EU official turned Hungarian opposition leader was driving more than double the speed limit in a 50km zone.

The visitors were all fully-vaccinated, tested on arrival, and then had to wait for a negative result before going sightseeing.

"The new method has been adopted by migrants and Belarusian services," Poland's defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak said.

A Chinese state TV employee has posted photos of Shuai online.

The far-right opposition Freedom Party was among those who have called for the protest

Vietnamese workers at the first Chinese car tyre factory in Europe are shivering in barracks without heat, going hungry and have no money.

Young people across the globe rely on government tax revenues for the realisation of their basic rights. Tax avoidance is therefore a children's rights issue, argues Zurich-based law teacher and NGO director Alexandra Dufresne.

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Venezuelans will go to the polls for regional and local elections on Sunday amid a crackdown on dissent by the Maduro regime. European observers must document any rights violations as they happen, say Human Rights Watch's Jose Miguel Vivanco and Tama...

“This is a nation and a culture where doubt is sewn into everything, including the questioning of authority and science, in order to maintain the beliefs they already have.”

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Police said they fired warning shots during protests against new COVID-19 restrictions in the Netherlands.

Twelve people will stand trial in Paris over a $10 million jewellery heist targeting Kim Kardashian West in 2016, authorities said Friday.

Kosovo’s health authorities are trying a new technique to persuade people to get the COVID-19 vaccine — cooperating with the Muslim community at Friday prayers.

A lawyer for Mikheil Saakashvili said that the jailed former Georgian president has agreed to end a seven-week hunger strike that has caused him neurological damage.

Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, on Friday concluded their first foreign tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

A US teenager was acquitted of all charges after pleading self-defence in the deadly Kenosha shootings during protests over a Black man's death at the hands of police.

"The commitments question is key to assessing COP26. Too early to make the call, Greta."

It is currently a crime punishable by between one and four years in prison.

Charities have welcomed the move as it offers an alternative to taking a daily cocktail of drugs.

It is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter.

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After spending more than 150 hours shooting inside intensive care units, one photographer is desperately trying to convince people to get the vaccine.

Earlier this week health authorities issued a stark warning as 65,371 new cases were reported in a single day, confirming an upward trend that experts have been warning about for weeks.

Women playing sport was seen as a political act of defiance against the Taliban, and hundreds of female athletes have left Afghanistan since the group returned to power and began curbing women's education and freedoms.

"It seems simplistic if not outright false to frame the actions of Russia’s energy sector, a core contributor to its GDP, as anything other than those of a reasonable actor operating in a dynamic, challenging environment."

Investigators are searching for the origins of a house fire in the Bexleyheath area of southeast London that killed two women and two children on Thursday evening.

Poland and Lithuania say Belarus is intentionally sending migrants their way. Now there are fears Russia could do the same to Finland.

Last Monday, Vienna announced a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated. That has now been extended to everyone.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe's 7-year-old daughter Gabriella accepted the award at a ceremony in London on behalf of the British-Iranian dual national, held in Iran since 2016.

Today's eclipse, although only partial, will last three hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, the longest since February 18, 1440, which lasted 23 seconds longer.

Taiwan opens office in Lithuania, angering China

The latest moves are being seen as a sign that Lukashenko is now keen to defuse the crisis the EU and the West accuse him of orchestrating.

Ugandan authorities have killed at least five people, including a Muslim cleric, accused of having ties to the extremist group responsible for Tuesday's suicide bombings in the capital.

More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two of his convicted killers were exonerated on Thursday.

Germany's Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne held a service of penance for cases of sexual abuse by clergy, saying the ritual was a “confession of guilt.”

French authorities say that parents should wash toys and limit other adults' contact with their babies amid a bronchiolitis epidemic.

Latvia and other Baltic states have been nervous about a potential influx of migrants from Belarus following the crisis on the Polish border.

The court ruled that Croatia illegally pushed back a migrant family in 2017. A 6-year-old girl was killed by a train on the border with Serbia shortly after the removal.

Under the new rules, unvaccinated people -- even if they tested negative for COVID-19 -- will see their access to many public venues restricted.

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MPs voted to lift ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz's parliamentary immunity.

Footballer Edouard Mendy, a goalkeeper for Chelsea, criticised some media organisations that mistook his photo for that of Benjamin Mendy.

While the word is still relatively new, it is gaining traction among young people but it has also triggered pushback from some quarters.