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Film showing mink ‘cannibalism’ prompts probable ban on fur farms in Poland
Poland’s fur farms could be in their final year in operation if a bill banning production of fur clears legal…
Ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah, dies aged 91
Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the architect of the nation’s modern foreign policy and one of the region’s most…
American faces prison in Thailand over bad hotel review
An American man is facing two years in prison in Thailand after posting negative online reviews of a hotel resort.…
Armenia and Azerbaijan allege attacks outside Nagorno-Karabakh
Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan threatened to escalate as both sides accused each other of targeting border areas outside Nagorno-Karabakh…
Russian court jails gulag historian Yury Dmitriev for 13 years
A Russian court has abruptly handed Yury Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes, a 13-year jail term after overturning an…
Teacher in China sentenced to death for poisoning children’s porridge
A nursery school teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children, one of them apparently…