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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Police in the Moldovan separatist region of Transnistria,...

A Russian official said last week that Russian forces aim to take full control of southern Ukraine, saying such a move would also open a land corridor to the Moldovan separatist region.

A Russian official said last week that Russian forces aim to take full control of southern Ukraine, saying such a move would also open a land corridor to the Moldovan separatist region.

Fri 7 May 2021 07.12 EDT At a desolate refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios earlier this week, a young man died alone in a tent. By the time the guards arrived on the scene, about 12 hours after the Somali refugee’s death, the body was surrounded by rodents. Asylum seekers who had initially alerted staff spoke in horror at seeing rats and mice swarming about. It was Orthodox Easter Monday, a national holiday in Greece. The 28-year-old, who has not been named by Greek authorities, is thought to have died of natural causes. In a short statement, the Greek migration ministry ruled out ...

The Central Election Commission (CEC) met on April 11 its deadline for declaring the names of those deemed elected as members of Bulgaria’s 45th National Assembly, following the parliamentary elections a week earlier. Fourteen of the initial 240 names notified the CEC that they did not want to take up their seats, among them GERB party leader and current Prime Minister Boiko Borissov. Word is now awaited from head of state President Roumen Radev, who has up to a month after the elections to convene the first sitting of the National Assembly. Should Radev not do so, Parliament may be convene...