Protesters claim Italian authorities tampered with ‘live webcam’ to show empty square instead of huge anti-vaccine-passport rally

Protesters in Italy have claimed that the authorities rigged a supposedly live webcam to show an empty square in Trieste’s city center while it was packed with demonstrators against the vaccine passport mandate. Read more Italian riot police fire tear gas,...

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Poland demands EU probe Russian state gas giant, as Warsaw accuses Moscow of engineering rising energy bills across much of Europe

Poland has written to the EU asking that Brussels bring legal action against Russia's state-owned energy firm Gazprom, which, Warsaw argues, has created a severe gas crisis. The bloc's leaders had already rejected the claims. In a letter sent to the Deputy Head of the European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, and published...

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Bulgaria, Germany, and Italy launch Europe-wide raids on 46 properties over tax fraud investigation into Italian mafia

A multinational police operation, run by Bulgaria, Germany and Italy, raided 46 commercial and residential properties on Wednesday, as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of tax fraud by the ’Ndrangheta mafia. German police confirmed that 11 people, members of the Italian mafia ’Ndrangheta group, have been...

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Spain's High Court agrees to extradite Venezuela's former spy chief Hugo Carvajal to the US

Former Venezuelan general and Hugo Chavez ally Hugo Carvajal will be extradited to the US to face drug trafficking charges after failing to gain political asylum in Spain, the Spanish High Court said on Wednesday. The former head of Venezuela's military intelligence was arrested last month by Spanish authorities while he...

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‘Sick of these f**king jokers’: FBI raid over Trump election allegations ‘staggeringly dumb,’ Russian billionaire Deripaska blasts

Oleg Deripaska, once hailed as Russia’s richest man, has hit out at US officials after a property in Washington reportedly linked to the sanctioned businessman was searched by security agents in connection with a court order. In a fiery rant posted online on Wednesday, the aluminum magnate suggested the raid had been in...

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Russia scrambles fighter jets to head off American warplanes near country’s airspace, days after warship intercepted near borders

The Russian Air Force has escorted two US bombers over the Black Sea, after radar operators identified the planes flying close to the border, just days after an American warship was tailed as it moved toward the country’s waters. On Wednesday, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense said that a pair of the country’s Su-30 fighter planes...

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Former boss Cherchesov ‘really surprised’ after Kanchelskis claims he is ‘sure’ agents paid for players to be named in Russia team

Ex-Russia boss Stanislav Cherchesov has voiced his surprise after one of his old teammates, former Man United favorite Andrei Kanchelskis, claimed he was "sure" he had been involved in stars paying to play international football. The pair were international colleagues for Russia between 1992 and 1998, with winger Kanchelskis's...

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‘Goal of the century’: Footballer celebrates by swimming on the pitch as fans go wild for bizarre strike in freak downpour (VIDEO)

Football fans have heralded a 'goal of the season' in torrential rain conditions which saw a player finally finish his team's move and then celebrate by swimming on a waterlogged pitch in England. The eventual successful effort occurred in the 94th minute of a clash in League One – the third tier of professional football...

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Russia announces fresh national ‘non-working week’ as country reports record number of deaths from Covid-19 since pandemic began

Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed plans to give workers across the country a week off, as the government proposes an 11pm curfew on hospitality in a bid to halt a sharp spike in the number of deaths from coronavirus. At a meeting of government officials on Wednesday, Putin gave the go-ahead for preparations to...

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Russia announces fresh national 'non-working week' as country reports record number of deaths from Covid-19 since pandemic began

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