Opposition announces new protest action in Tbilisi | Europe and Europeans: News and Analytics | DW

One of the leaders of the Georgian opposition party “United National Movement” (UNM) Nika Melia announced a new protest action on Monday, November 9, on Rustaveli Square, near the parliament building in Tbilisi. “Tomorrow at 18.00 (17.00 Moscow time) we are waiting for everyone on Rustaveli Avenue. We will fight to the end. Tomorrow the …

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Coronavirus: The number of victims of the pandemic in France exceeded 40 thousand | News from Germany about Europe | DW

The total number of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who have died in France during the pandemic has exceeded 40,000. According to the Ministry of Health of the country, by the evening of Saturday, November 7, this figure was 40 169 people here. Over the past day in France, 306 deaths were recorded from the consequences …

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OSCE Rapporteur for Belarus: re-elections, end of violence and international investigation are needed | Europe and Europeans: News and Analytics | DW

Wolfgang Benedek is a professor and expert on international law at the University of Graz, Austria. In September, a group of member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) appointed him as rapporteur on human rights violations in connection with the presidential elections in Belarus, in which the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko …

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Leader of Kosovo before the Hague Tribunal. What is he accused of | Europe and Europeans: News and Analytics | DW

Kosovo finds itself in a political emergency. On November 5, a special tribunal in The Hague to investigate war crimes in Kosovo brought charges of war crimes against a number of the most prominent politicians of Europe’s youngest state, most notably President Hashim Thaci. In response, he announced that he would immediately resign, since he …

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Former chief of police detained in Slovakia in connection with murder of journalist | News from Germany about Europe | DW

More than two and a half years after the murder of journalist Jan Kutsiak in Slovakia, several former high-ranking police officers have been detained. During Operation Purge, the NAKA special unit conducted searches on suspicion of organizing a criminal association, the Slovakia’s special prosecutor’s office for organized crime said on Thursday. Several people are being …

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Heirs to the Caliphate: The Essentials of Terrorism in Europe | Europe and Europeans: News and Analytics | DW

After the terrorist act committed by the Islamist in Vienna, Austrian Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz promised that the country’s authorities will fight terrorism with all their might. “This is a struggle between civilization and barbarism, and we will fight it with all determination,” he said to the nation on Tuesday, November 3. A series of …

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