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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock singled out Iran for using the death penalty to suppress members of the opposition at a conference on Tuesday which aimed to outlaw the punishment around the world. Speaking at the World Congress against the Death Penalty, with delegations from about 90 countries in Berlin,…

The pioneering German Jewish artist was murdered by the Nazis but her work lives on. The makers of a new biopic, featuring the voices of Keira Knightley and Helen McCrory, explain her enduring appeal

Prosecutors say David Smith, 58, from Paisley, became disillusioned with west and contacted Russian military

Once purely the stuff of action movie plots, the prospect of the lights going out in Europe's biggest economy has become a conceivable threat during the current energy crisis.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany's priority in its aid to Ukraine should be to help it defend itself from Russian air raids on its cities and to help it rebuild its infrastructure.

David Ballantyne Smith, 58, faces up to 14 years in prison after passing information on British civil servants to the Russian military.

Hopes of a warmer co-existence with Russia have been gradually snuffed out since the Cold War ended.

David Ballantyne Smith is said to have been driven by an intense hatred for his own country and wanted to live in Russia or Ukraine at the time he passed on secret intelligence from May 2020

David Ballantyne Smith was ‘driven by an intense hatred for his own country’, court told