Denmark seeks to charge former defence minister with disclosing secrets – top prosecuting office says Claus Hjort Frederiksen shared ‘highly classified information’ denmark politics crime Article 353 words 3 votes
Denmark is facing fresh claims of racism after a change to controversial legislation will allow Ukraine refugees to move into housing emptied of 'non-westerners' denmark ukraine law Article 666 words 8 votes
Gabriel Boric, 36, to usher in new era for Chile as he takes presidential oath chile politics Article 709 words 14 votes
Conservative candidate squeaks to victory in South Korean election: Yoon Suk-yeol declares victory in presidential election after liberal opponent concedes defeat with 98% of ballots counted south korea politics Article 449 words 12 votes
Taliban delegation is to hold talks with Norwegian officials and Afghan civil society representatives in Oslo next week norway afghanistan Article 320 words 6 votes
Jimmy Lai among three Hong Kong democracy activists convicted over Tiananmen vigil hong kong china Article 386 words 7 votes
Bow and arrow attacks in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg – Danish citizen charged as death toll reaches five norway.kongsberg crime denmark Article 482 words 14 votes
Hong Kong leader defends election after single non-establishment figure picked for 1,500-strong committee hong kong politics china Article 490 words 6 votes
Pro-Vladimir Putin party maintains majority in Russian elections despite declining support, many results almost certainly rigged russia politics Article 688 words 15 votes
Stefan Löfven steps down as Sweden's prime minister after seven years – finance minister Magdalena Andersson widely tipped to be his successor as leader of Socialdemokraterna sweden politics Article 344 words 8 votes
Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘banana republic’ military parade condemned by critics politics Article 806 words, published Aug 10 2021 8 votes
Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers leave the city to accept British citizenship hong kong united kingdom china Article 1176 words 29 votes
Denmark faces legal action over attempts to return Syrian refugees – activists fear a dangerous precedent being set as Copenhagen deems Damascus safe denmark politics syria.damascus Article 1041 words 6 votes
Culper Precision has stopped selling a kit that encases Glock handguns in Lego blocks, amid uproar and after the Danish toymaker demanded it cease and desist denmark usa.ut Article 355 words 12 votes
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen lose out as French voters shun local elections: Abstention rate estimated at 68%, and exit polls suggest Le Pen’s National Rally failed to get expected support france politics Article 681 words 13 votes
Keiko Fujimori’s fraud claims criticised as rival’s narrow lead widens: Pedro Castillo holds 0.4% lead with more than 97% of votes counted peru politics Article 545 words 7 votes
The state of Arizona is preparing to kill death row inmates using hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz usa.az law Article 1059 words, published May 28 2021 22 votes
Tens of thousands of Brazilians march in upwards of 200 cities to demand Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment politics Article 645 words 19 votes
Did Jordan’s closest allies plot to unseat its king? Alleged sedition and a royal family feud may have been driven by a broader plan to reshape the Middle East. jordan saudi arabia israel palestine usa Article 1760 words 4 votes
Swedish embassy in Minsk harbours two Belarusians for five months – they sought refuge after protests but are becoming a diplomatic issue for Sweden sweden belarus.minsk Article 392 words 5 votes
Alexei Navalny protests: Moscow in lockdown as thousands are arrested politics russia.moscow crime Article 512 words 15 votes
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide' china usa politics Article 469 words 15 votes
Hong Kong arrests of pro-democracy activists showcase shrinking tolerance for peaceful opposition hong kong china Article 896 words 14 votes
Rubber ducks have become a symbol of Thailand’s pro-democracy protests in Bangkok after demonstrators used them as shields against police water cannon and teargas politics thailand.bangkok journalism.photo Article 12 votes
Amazon's reported surveillance of workers could break Australian law, union says australia law Article 493 words 7 votes
How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets syria russia journalism Article 4903 words 6 votes
US ICE officers 'used torture to make Africans sign own deportation orders' cameroon usa.ms Article 1359 words 10 votes
Peter Madsen, convicted of murdering Kim Wall in 2017, has been recaptured after escaping from his suburban jail in Copenhagen by taking a psychologist hostage denmark.copenhagen crime Article 197 words 11 votes
Sweden will increase military spending by around 40% in the next five years and double the number of people conscripted into the army amid growing tensions with Russia sweden politics russia Article 307 words 16 votes
Norway arrests suspect linked to 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant in Paris – man held on European arrest warrant issued by French authorities over attack in which six people died norway crime palestine france.paris Article 480 words 7 votes
At least twenty Indian Army soldiers killed in a face-off with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley india china Article 977 words 16 votes
Australian Senators unite to block Pauline Hanson's 'all lives matter' motion australia politics Article 658 words 8 votes
Thousands in New Zealand protest against George Floyd killing usa new zealand Article 743 words 12 votes
Hundreds of thousands of Australians affected by the government’s robodebt scheme will receive notices from Centrelink about an upcoming class action under orders from the federal court australia Article 752 words 5 votes
Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist japan Article 473 words 14 votes
Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden who had been missing since March has been found dead, police have said sweden.uppsala journalism pakistan Article 231 words 7 votes
Greenland wary of US plans for aid projects in its territory – politicians say expected announcement of $12m must not have conditions attached denmark.greenland politics usa Article 715 words 6 votes
A prominent Pakistani journalist, who fled the country after receiving death threats, has gone missing in Sweden where he had been granted political asylum sweden journalism pakistan Article 590 words 4 votes
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman signals new purge with ‘treason’ arrests saudi arabia politics crime Article 744 words 5 votes
Winston Peters invokes Christchurch massacre as NZ's deportations row with Australia escalates australia new zealand.christchurch Article 727 words 5 votes
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s autocratic former president who ruled with an iron fist for three decades before being toppled during the Arab spring protests in 2011, has died aged 91 egypt politics Article 1098 words 6 votes
Haiti cancels carnival after gun battle between police and soldiers haiti crime Article 569 words 6 votes
Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai jailed for ten years in China – Swedish citizen who went missing in 2015 sentenced for providing intelligence abroad sweden hong kong china Article 512 words 8 votes
Streatham: Man shot dead by police after stabbings in south London united kingdom.london crime Article 6 votes
Brazilian culture secretary fired after echoing words of Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Göebbels politics germany.nazi Article 445 words 7 votes
Finland anoints Sanna Marin, thirty-four, as world's youngest serving prime minister finland politics Article 503 words 9 votes
Russia arrests conman who built fake border – the man erected mock border posts and charged four men more than $10,000 to take them to Finland finland crime russia Article 233 words 8 votes
Elon Musk's testimony in defamation trial: Pedo guy insult was 'not classy' but not meant literally Article 910 words 16 votes
Syrian refugees ask Norway police to investigate war crimes – torture survivors file dossier of evidence against seventeen high-ranking Syrian officials norway syria crime.war Article 841 words 5 votes