WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A special committee tasked with investigating Russian and Belarusian influence in Poland began its work Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced. At a news conference in Warsaw, Tusk and other officials described the commission as an impartial group of experts whose aim is to protect national security. The work begins at […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Top officials of South Africa’s African National Congress have held initial talks with representatives of five other parties about a coalition or other deal to form a government, but no decision has yet been made and talks are continuing are in an early stage. The ANC said this on Wednesday. South Africa

NEW DELHI (AP) — China, Ukraine and other countries sent their congratulations Wednesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government began preparations for his swearing-in for a record third term after the world’s largest democratic election. Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party planned to meet allies later Wednesday to discuss government formation. Official results the Election

By Silvia Ognibene FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) -American Amanda Knox accused Italian police of threats and violence as she tried Wednesday to overturn a defamation conviction in the latest outstanding case against her following the 2007 murder of a British student. Knox, who served four years in prison for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher

Almost ten years after her acquittal in a notorious murder case, American-American Amanda Knox is back in court in Italy. The now 36-year-old appeared before the appeal court in Florence on Wednesday because she wants to obtain another acquittal in connection with the murder of a British exchange student in 2007. Knox now lives in

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has lost its absolute majority in parliament in India’s general elections for the first time in ten years. Although Modi’s Bharatiya Janata (Indian People’s Party) (BJP) received the most votes, it will have to rely on its two coalition partners to form a government. The BJP won 240 of the

Packaging technology specialist EcoCortec has boosted its partnership with German packaging company Jakob Schober by delivering plastic waste from the town of Waldorf in Beli Manastir, Croatia. Due to the direct relationship between customer and manufacturer, plastic waste is recovered and processed back into end products in EcoCortec’s recycling facility. The scrap is regranulated using

BERLIN (AP) — A member of a German far-right party was stabbed and wounded in the southwestern city of Mannheim, German news agency dpa reported Wednesday, just days after a knife attack killed a police officer and left five other people injured in the same city. Dpa reported that a candidate from the far-right Alternative

By Rishika Sadam and Shilpa Jamkhandikar HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to be sworn in for a record third term on June 8, after key allies pledged their continued support a day after a humiliating election verdict that saw his party lose its position. majority in parliament. Modi, a

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s online security watchdog said Wednesday it had dropped its case in federal court seeking to target X Corp. to force a video to be deleted from a Bishop of Sydney is stabbed. But eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said she would continue her legal action at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal