The Belta news agency says the mercenaries worked for Wagner, Russia’s best-known private military contractor. Belarus has arrested dozens of Russian mercenaries after receiving information that more than 200 fighters had entered the country to destabilise it before a presidential election, according to Belarusian state media. The state-controlled Belta news agency said on Wednesday that […]
By Susan Mathew and Sagarika Jaisinghani (Reuters) – European shares eased from record highs on Thursday, as a raft of disappointing earnings added to concerns about the global impact of the coronavirus outbreak after research suggested the illness is more contagious than previously thought. The pan-European STOXX 600 <.STOXX> shed 0.9%, deepening losses just before […]
PARIS (AFP) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was accused Tuesday (Oct 12) of “crimes against humanity” at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his alleged role in the destruction of the Amazon, the first case seeking to explicitly link deforestation to loss of life. Planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from burning and industrial-scale agriculture in the […]
