- Retegui hat-trick fires five-star Atalanta to hammering of Genoa
- Heavyweights Australia, England off to World Cup winning starts
- Visiting UN refugee agency chief decries 'terrible crisis' in Lebanon
- Spinners come to party as England defeat Bangladesh at T20 World Cup
- Search continues for missing in deadly Bosnia floods
- Man City sink Fulham to get title bid back on track
- France's Auradou whistled on Pau return in Perpignan loss amid ongoing rape case
- A 'forgotten' valley in storm-hit North Carolina, desperate for help
- Arsenal hit back in style after Southampton scare
- Hezbollah heir apparent Safieddine out of contact after strikes
- Liverpool stay top of Premier League as Arsenal, Man City win
- In dank Tour of Emilia, Pogacar shines in rainbow jersey
- DR Congo launches mpox vaccination drive, hoping to curb outbreak
- Trump returns to site of failed assassination
- Careless Leverkusen held to Bundesliga draw
- O'Brien's 'superstar' Kyprios posts landmark win on Arc weekend
- Liverpool suffer Alisson injury blow
- Habosi helps Racing beat Vannes before Auradou's playing return
- Thousands march in London in support of Palestinians, 1 year after Oct 7
- Israel readying response to Iran missile attack
- Schutt, Mooney help Australia beat Sri Lanka in Women's T20 World Cup
- Liverpool extend Premier League lead with win at Palace
- Djokovic 'shakes rust off' to make third round of Shanghai Masters
- 'Imperfect' PSG fighting on all fronts - Luis Enrique
- Struggling Pakistan look to thwart adaptable England
- Child 'trampled to death' in asylum seekers' Channel crossing: minister
- Gauff fights back to set up Beijing final against Muchova
- Guardiola claims Premier League won't delay season for Man City
- Israel to mark October 7 attack as Gaza war spreads
- Gauff fights back to reach China Open final
- Recovering Stokes ruled out of first Pakistan Test
- Hezbollah battles troops on border as Israel pounds Lebanon
- Alcaraz, Sinner breeze into third round of Shanghai Masters
- Bagnaia wins Japan MotoGP sprint to cut Martin's lead
- Alcaraz breezes into third round of Shanghai Masters
- Gaza cultural heritage brought to light in Geneva
- 'Bullet for democracy': Trump returns to site of rally shooting
- Italy targets climate activists in 'anti-Gandhi' demo clampdown
- South Korean cult-horror series 'Hellbound' returns at BIFF
- Nepalis fear more floods as climate change melts glaciers
- Honduras arrests environmentalist's alleged murderer
- Padres pitcher Musgrove needs elbow surgery
- Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissions
- Boston beat Denver in NBA exhibition season opener, but Jokic says omens are good
- Chagos diaspora angry at lack of input on islands' fate
- Biden says 'not confident' of peaceful US election
- US trade chief defends tariff hikes when paired with investment
- Lukaku stars as Napoli beat Como to hold Serie A top spot
- Ohtani set for MLB playoff debut as Dodgers face Padres
- Pogba's drug ban cut to 18 months from four years
Russia court jails opposition politician Kara-Murza
Russian authorities on Friday declared opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza a "foreign agent" and ordered his pre-trial detention for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian army amid its military campaign in Ukraine.
Moscow's Basmanny district court ordered that the 40-year-old Kremlin opponent be held in jail until June 12, his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said on Facebook.
Prokhorov said earlier in the day that Kara-Murza was facing criminal charges over spreading allegedly false information.
The Western-educated activist and journalist was a close associate of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated near the Kremlin in 2015, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned Kremlin critic.
He has for years campaigned in the West against President Vladimir Putin's regime.
According to a copy of an order on institution of criminal proceedings posted by Kara-Murza's lawyer on Facebook, the case against him was launched over his speech about Putin's military campaign in Ukraine to members of the lower house of the Arizona Legislature in mid-March.
Asked about the criminal charges, the Kremlin on Friday told reporters that "there is a law that is being implemented".
"The Investigative Committee exercises its powers and duties in accordance with this law," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
The law, which was introduced after Putin sent troops to Ukraine on February 24, imposes prison sentences of up to 15 years for publishing information about the military deemed false by the Russian government.
Last week, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 15 days in jail for disobeying police orders.
Kara-Murza claims he was poisoned twice -- in 2015 and 2017 -- because of his political activities.
In a separate move, Kara-Murza was declared a "foreign agent" along with several prominent journalists including Alexei Venediktov, the editor of the now dismantled Echo of Moscow radio station.
The Russian justice ministry said in a statement that it had added to its growing list of "foreign agents" eight individuals including Leonid Volkov, the right-hand man of Alexei Navalny, the jailed leader of the Russian opposition, and veteran journalist Alexander Nevzorov.
In March, Russian investigators launched a criminal case against Nevzorov for alleging that Moscow's army deliberately shelled a maternity hospital in Ukraine's embattled city of Mariupol.
Moscow has stepped up efforts to stamp out dissent after Putin sent troops to Ukraine.
Independent media outlets have been shut down or suspended operations, and tens of thousands of Russians have left the country in protest over the Kremlin's policies.
By law, individuals or entities identified as "foreign agents" must disclose sources of funding, undergo audits and accompany all their texts, videos and social media posts with a caption mentioning content from a "foreign agent".
The status is reminiscent of the Soviet-era term "enemy of the people" and is meant to apply to people or groups that receive funding from abroad and are involved in any kind of "political activity".
A.Seabra--PC