Month: October 2019

France will host a conference with Sudan’s international creditors to help Khartoum address debt issues as soon as the United States removes the country from its state-sponsored terrorism list, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday.In efforts to stabilize the country and to repair an economy battered by years of U.S. sanctions and government mismanagement during …

Italy’s coalition parties said on Monday they were in favor of reducing the minimum voting age to 16, in a move which analysts said would increase the electorate by about 1 million people.Italy would be the second EU country after Austria to lower the minimum age to participate in national elections below 18, according to …

Dozens of journalists on Monday marched in Bosnia’s capital of Sarajevo after thugs forced a radio station to remove a story from its website.Protesters gathered outside the offices of soccer club Sarajevo and then walked through the city center, demanding better protection and tougher penalties for attacks on the press.Police detained two people over Friday’s …

Public pressure, including from famous faces in the Russian entertainment industry, has led to the release of a young actor in what observers say is a victory by civil society against state repression.  As Ricardo Marquina and Olga Pavlova report from Moscow, Russian authorities have, after massive street protests, overturned a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for …

Unseasonably cold and wet September weather didn’t deter thousands of protesters packing a central Moscow square on Sunday to voice their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jamie Dettmer reports from the Russian capital. …