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Swedish government says UN panel finds Assange detention unfair

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 16:33 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Sweden's foreign ministry said Thursday that a U.N. advisory panel has concluded that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's has been a victim of "arbitrary" detention at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London...

Italian student tortured before being 'slowly killed' in Egypt

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 12:23 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

The body of a missing Italian student was found with signs of torture, including multiple stab wounds and cigarette burns, by the side of a highway on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital, an...

Europe's top economic authorities warn of risks to growth

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 11:38 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Europe's top economic authorities warned Thursday of dangers to the region's economy amid slower growth in China, weaker global trade and heightened geopolitical uncertainties. Mario Draghi, the...

France dismantles 25 migrant smuggling networks over a year

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 11:06 Last update: about 9 years ago

France's top security official said investigators have dismantled 25 migrant smuggling networks in the country's north in the past year. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said about 700 people...

Judge refuses to throw out sexual-assault case against Bill Cosby

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 06:34 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

A judge refused to throw out the sexual-assault case against Bill Cosby on Wednesday, sweeping aside a former district attorney's claim that he granted the comedian immunity from prosecution a decade...

British earl suspected of murder 40 years ago declared dead

Wednesday, 3 February 2016, 16:47 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

More than 40 years after a British aristocrat disappeared without trace in the hours after his children's nanny was bludgeoned to death and his wife was badly beaten, he was officially declared dead...

French government wants to extend the state of emergency

Wednesday, 3 February 2016, 15:11 Last update: about 9 years ago

France's government is calling for a three-month extension of the state of emergency that was declared after the Nov. 13 deadly attacks in Paris, a move criticized by human right groups as damaging...

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