KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainians were voting Sunday in local elections that are considered a test for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a former comedian who took office last year vowing to bring peace, uproot endemic corruption and shore up a worsening economy. Zelenskiy was elected president by… Read More »Ukraine’s local elections test leader and his young party
LISBON, Portugal – Illicit drugs are increasingly available in the European Union, where there is now “an abundant supply,” the bloc’s drug monitoring agency said in a report published Tuesday. The agency highlighted cocaine as a growing problem. Its purity in Europe is increasing and… Read More »Report finds ‘abundant’ supply of illicit drugs in EU
BERLIN – A French man has been arrested in connection with a child abuse investigation in Germany in which 11 people are now in custody, authorities said Thursday. The 62-year-old suspect was arrested on Wednesday in Saarbruecken, near the French border, police and prosecutors in… Read More »Germany: French man arrested in child abuse investigation
LONDON – A lawyer for British tabloid The Sun claimed Monday that Johnny Depp abused Amber Heard during their relationship, committing acts of violence fueled by misogyny and unleashed by addiction to alcohol and drugs. Attorney Sasha Wass was summing up at Depp’s libel case… Read More »Lawyer claims Depp was misogynistic abuser of ex-wife Heard
LONDON – Johnny Depp said Tuesday that his ex-wife Amber Heard had made “sick” claims of abuse and falsely branded him a monster, as the actor testified in a U.K. libel case that hinges on who was the aggressor in the celebrity couple’s violent, toxic… Read More »At libel trial, Depp blasts Amber Heard’s ‘sick’ abuse claim
AMSTERDAM – It wasn’t quite business as usual Wednesday as Amsterdam’s red-light district emerged from coronavirus lockdown, but it was close. “We are, of course, used to taking care of hygiene,” said Janet van der Berg of the Prostitution Information Center in the heart of… Read More »Amsterdam’s red-light district emerges from lockdown
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Two Dutch men have been sentenced to five years in prison for selling drugs at a popular Budapest music festival last summer, a Hungarian court ruled Monday Prosecutors had recommended prison sentences of up to 10 years and appealed the court’s decision,… Read More »Dutch drug sellers get 5-year prison terms in Hungary
TIRANA, Albania – An Albanian appeals court on Friday ordered the re-trial of a former interior minister who was convicted of abuse of office last year. The basis for the Tirana Appeals Court judges’ decision to overturn last year’s conviction was not immediately clear. The… Read More »Court orders abuse of post retrial for ex-Albanian minister