(Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by dissident Alexei Gorinov against a three-year prison sentence for "justifying terrorism", a human rights group said. Read full story

(Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who tried unsuccessfully to run against Vladimir Putin in a presidential election last year, was declared bankrupt by a Moscow court on Thursday, state media reported. Read full story

VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria will close two smaller crossings at its border with Slovakia and 21 at its border with Hungary from Saturday, in a bid to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from entering the country, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Read full story

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Hungary's capital early Thursday (April 3) to a red carpet treatment despite a warrant for his arrest issued by the world's top war crimes court. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that threats of military strikes against its ally Iran were unacceptable and warned that attacking the Islamic Republic could lead to potentially catastrophic results if nuclear installations were bombed. Read full story

LUANDA (Reuters) - The United States remains committed to funding the Lobito rail corridor, a project to help transport critical minerals from the central African copperbelt to the West, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive spending cuts, a U.S. diplomat said. Read full story

SYDNEY: The Australian external territories of Heard and McDonald Islands which boast colonies of penguins but no humans are among the places targeted by sweeping US tariffs announced by President Donald Trump. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Termination notices sent by billionaire Elon Musk's cost-cutting team to U.S. Agency for International Development staff were so rife with errors that corrected versions are being issued to avoid affecting pensions and pay, according to five sources familiar with the issue. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's General Prosecutor on Thursday banned the activities of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, accusing it of taking a negative stance towards countries like Russia that protect "traditional spiritual and moral values". Read full story

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Amid widespread opposition, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order on the so-called "reciprocal tariffs," imposing a 10-percent "minimum baseline tariff" and higher rates on certain trading partners. Read full story

In Britain, amid growing evidence of harm to young people from extreme content online, a "Smartphone Free Childhood" campaign is going viral. Read full story

(Reuters) -Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc and executives from companies including Vietnam Airlines JSC and Vietjet Aviation JSC will visit the United States this weekend as U.S. tariffs loom, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Read full story

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - North Korea's new class of warship can accommodate dozens of vertical launch cells to carry missiles its military has already developed, analysis of a satellite image showed, a step that would give its navy more punch and create an export opportunity. Read full story

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Tamara Bojanovski was in a crowd of anti-government protesters in Belgrade on March 15 when she heard a sound "like some powerful machine hurtling up from behind". Read full story

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters has written to the speaker of parliament seeking to block lawmakers from meeting on Wednesday to vote on the next stage of the budget process. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's parliament on Wednesday formally introduced a motion to impeach Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In just 10 weeks in office, Donald Trump has imposed his will on perceived adversaries in business, politics, the media and allied nations by leveraging power in ways no other modern U.S. president has tried. Read full story

(Reuters) -Val Kilmer, who starred in films such as "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever" while earning a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 65. Read full story

Gaming giant Nintendo is set to unveil the successor to its phenomenally popular Switch console on April 2. Read full story

NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - Denmark's prime minister will visit semi- autonomous Greenland on Wednesday for talks with the territory's incoming government, following U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated expressions of interest in controlling the Arctic island. Read full story

(Reuters) -The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in March fell to the lowest level ever recorded, according to initial figures released by the U.S. government on Tuesday. Read full story

HOUSTON, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The American Petroleum Institute (API) on Tuesday reported an increase of 6.037 million barrels of crude oil in U.S. inventories for the week ending March 28. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reinforced U.S. military capability in the Middle East with more warplanes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, amid a more than two-week-old U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen and mounting tensions with Iran. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Half of the U.S. Senate - 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats - joined together on Tuesday to introduce sanctions that would be imposed on Russia if it refuses to engage in good faith negotiations for peace with Ukraine. Read full story

ATHENS -Schools and kindergartens were closed on several Greek islands including Paros and Mykonos on Tuesday after severe weather brought torrential rain, flooding and hailstorms to the Aegean Sea. Read full story

(Reuters) - On Thursday night, Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing stood astride a jeep, touring columns of saluting soldiers as fighter jets shot flares and helicopters buzzed overhead in an annual display of military might in the capital, Naypyitaw. Read full story

BANGKOK (Reuters) - All leaders of member countries of the BIMSTEC grouping are still scheduled to join this week's summit in Bangkok, although the attendance of Myanmar's junta leader remains unclear after an earthquake in that country, host Thailand said on Tuesday. Read full story

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Aid groups arriving in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after last week's devastating quake which killed more than 2,000 people, including 50 preschoolers in one school. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Constitutional Court, which is reviewing President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, will announce its decision on whether to remove him from office permanently or reinstate him on April 4, the court said in a statement on Tuesday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on the International Space Station. Read full story

BANGKOK(Reuters):Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,000. Read full story

(Reuters):Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, UNofficials said on Monday (March 31). Read full story

NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - Greenland will strengthen its ties with Denmark until it can become a sovereign nation, the Arctic island's incoming prime minister told Reuters on Monday, noting that the semi-autonomous Danish territory ultimately wants to become independent. Read full story

NEW YORK, March 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended mixed on Monday, recovering from deep losses in the morning as traders anxiously awaited U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans. Read full story

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third term but did not explain how he would get around the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against anyone serving more than two terms as president. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Monday that a court's decision to bar her from office for misuse of European funds ruled her out of the 2027 presidential election, adding she had no confidence in an appeal being heard before the vote. Read full story

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Lithuania said on Monday rescuers have recovered the armoured vehicle of four missing U.S. soldiers that last week sunk in a peat bog in a military training area in the Baltic country, not mentioning the soldiers. Read full story

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast, which could trigger devastating tsunamis, the collapse of hundreds of buildings and potentially killing about 300,000 people, a government report said on Monday. Read full story

KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) - Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination - one of hundreds of political killings at the height of the conflict. Read full story