Sweden to deploy troops in the Baltic Sea
Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said Sweden will deploy troops on the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland and will start military drills in that area after Russia increased activities and…
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European Court of Human Rights: sterilisation requirement for gender reassignment surgery is a violation of privacy
The Court ruled that the requirement of permanent infertility to undergo gender reassignment surgery is a violation of the right to privacy, as guaranteed by Article 8 of the European…
Nuclear weapons in Crimea? Why not, says Russian Foreign Ministry official
News Agency Interfax quoted Mikhail Ulyanov, the head of the ministry’s department on arms control, who said Russia has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea….
France defends Napoleon over a coin commemorating the Battle of Waterloo
France wants to block plans for a €2 coin to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the historic battle fought by the Duke of Wellington against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815 because it…