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The team of US President-elect Joe Biden on Sunday called for the release of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny after he was detained upon arrival at a Moscow airport, as the Trump administration remained quiet on the subject. "Mr. Navalny should be immediately released, and the perpetrators of the outrageous attack on his life must be held accountable," said Jake Sullivan, who will serve as Biden's national security adviser if confirmed by the Senate. "The Kremlin's attacks on Mr. Navalny are not just a violation of human rights, but an affront to the Russian people who want their voices heard.......

Dissident Alexei Navalny has landed in Moscow after his plane was diverted to the Russian capital's Sheremetyevo airport at the last minute, according to a dpa reporter. The plane was originally due to land at Vnukovo airport on Sunday evening, but display boards there said the plane had been diverted to the capital's larger international airport. The flight from Berlin, operated by Pobeda airline, was circulating above Vnukovo before it changed its course. Opposition politician Ilya Yashin called the diversion a "hysterical reaction" of the Russian government....

Armin Laschet, the centrist premier of Germany's most populous state, took the first step on Saturday towards succeeding Angela Merkel as the next chancellor of Europe’s biggest economy. The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) selected 59-year-old Laschet to head the party as Germany gears up for national elections in September. Whoever is leader of the CDU is traditionally the party's candidate for chancellor. Laschet fended off a strong challenge from wealthy corporate lawyer Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote at the CDU's first-ever digital party convention, which was framed by the coronav......

India on Saturday started inoculating health workers in what is expected to be the world’s biggest coronavirus vaccination programme. A health worker at a government hospital in Delhi became the first person to receive a vaccine shot in the country of 1.3 billion people, shortly after Premier Narendra Modi kicked off the year-long campaign with a nationally televised speech. India plans to vaccinate 300 million people - nearly equal to the entire population of the United States - by the end of July. "India is today launching the world’s biggest vaccination programme. Never before has this type......

Search teams have located black box recorders from an Indonesian passenger plane that crashed into the Java Sea, the country's military chief said. "We can monitor two signals from the black boxes and we have been able to mark (the location)," Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto said. "Hopefully they can be recovered soon." The black boxes consist of a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder....

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to appear in a London court on Monday to hear the decision over his extradition to the US, where the 49-year-old is facing 18 charges that could land him in jail for 175 years. Washington has charged Assange with violating the Espionage Act by conspiring with former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to leak a trove of classified material in 2010 relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The secret documents were released on Wikileaks while Assange also collaborated with journalists at prominent news outlets. His supporters and press fr......