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Croatia schedules April 17 election for new parliament

Croatia will hold a parliamentary election on April 17, the country’s president said on Friday.President Zoran Milanovic scheduled the parliamentary vote after Croatia’s parliament dissolved on Thursday.The ballot next month will pit the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union against a…
Belarus imprisons Catholic activist for insulting Lukashenko

A Catholic activist in Belarus was handed a three-year prison sentence Friday on charges that Western diplomats have denounced as politically driven, the latest move in the authorities’ sweeping crackdown on the country’s civil society.Uladzislau Beladzed, 33, who taught the…
Yemen’s Houthis have a hypersonic missile, report claims

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia’s state media reported Thursday, potentially raising the stakes in their ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways against the backdrop of Israel’s…
At least 250,000 displaced as conflicts rage on in the Congo

Escalating violence in Congo’s eastern region has displaced at least 250,000 people in the last month, a senior United Nations official said Wednesday, describing the situation as an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.Far from the nation’s capital, Kinshasa, eastern Congo has long…