The Hong Kong police have used tear gas to disperse violent protests in the city center, the police said on Tuesday

The European Union is concerned over the "reform process" in Moldova after the vote of no confidence in the government, the bloc's diplomatic service said Tuesday in a statement

The Moldovan parliament passed a vote of no-confidence in Prime Minister Maia Sandu's government on Tuesday, the speaker of the 101-member legislature, Zinaida Greceanii, said

The governments of the United Kingdom and Sweden have not yet contacted the family of Julian Assange, the jailed founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform, to discuss possible compensation for the years he spent in custody, Assange's father, John Shipton, told Sputnik

The National Petroleum Construction Company, NPCC, a part of Senaat, one of the UAE’s largest industrial investment holding companies owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, broke a Guinness World Record, GWR, title for the ‘Heaviest single-module topside on a fixed steel jacket

Activists in Hong Kong will not achieve their political goals by resorting to further violence, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Monday at a press conference following a day of escalated mass protests

Non-governmental organization The Whale Sanctuary Project welcomes the release of the last group of belugas from the "whale jail" in Russia's Far East, executive director Charles Vinick told Sputnik, describing the country's efforts to bring the animals back into the wild as an "example for the world."

Ghana became the 16th state to withdraw its recognition of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said on Monday