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Man 'in difficult financial situation' abandons young children at Moscow airport - Russian cops investigating The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case against a man who dumped his children at the country's busiest airport. According to authorities, 41-year-old Viktor Gavrilov from the Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur arrived on a long-haul flight from Khabarovsk to Moscow's Sheremetyevo before abandoning his two sons. The man then boarded a different plane to Rostov, near the Black Sea, leaving his kids with their identifying documents and a note:"Please help my children. Please place them in a temporary shelter, because at the moment I have a very difficult financial situation. I'll pick them up later. ...

Slovenian opposition may try to form new govt as PM Sarec resigns Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Sarec said he was sending his resignation to parliament on Monday, and called for an early election. His minority government could not push through important legislation, according to the PM. The governing coalition of five center-left parties, which took power in September 2018, held only 43 out of 90 seats in parliament. After losing the informal support of the opposition Left Party in November, it has found it increasingly difficult to get bills through parliament. “With this coalition, this situation in parliament, I cannot fulfill the expectations of the people,” Sarec told reporters. The opposition center-right Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), which is the largest party in ...

EU’s Barnier warns risk still exists of Brexit cliff edge at year-end The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Monday that businesses still face the risk of a cliff edge Brexit at the end of the year given the short time available to negotiate a future trading relationship between Britain and the EU. “This negotiation is not usual because at the end of this year, the UK is leaving the single market, it is it’s choice, it is leaving the customs union,” Michel Barnier told a joint news conference with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. “If we have no agreement, it will not be business as usual and the status quo, we have to face the risk of a cliff edge, in particular for trade,” Reuters quoted Barnier as saying. EU’s Barnier warns risk still exists of B...

US Embassy in Baghdad confirms 1 staff member injured in rocket attack The US Embassy in Baghdad has confirmed at least one member of its personnel was injured in a rocket attack on Sunday, AP reports. The two staff members did not specify the injured person’s nationality or the severity of their wounds. They said on Monday that the rocket had slammed into a restaurant inside the embassy compound. Five Katyusha rockets crashed into a riverbank near the US Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, according to a statement from US Joint Operations Command. It was the third rocket attack targeting the US Embassy this month. Previous attacks caused no injuries. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi condemned it, asserting ...