Germany may confiscate gift parcels sent from Russia ahead of this year’s festive season, the country’s Federal Customs Service announced in statement on its website this week. According to the statement, gift parcels are regulated by the same sanctions legislation as any imports, as they may contain sanctioned goods such as paper, pulp, precious stones…

An international investigation into Kiev is “undoubtedly necessary,” said Dmitry Peskov Ukraine’s alleged murder of its own citizens, who were supposed to return home in less than a day, was “a monstrous act,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when commenting on the deadly Il-76 plane crash.

The claimants took issue with the state’s decision to ban transgender girls from playing on female sports teams A group of Democratic-run US states have called on a federal appeals court to uphold a decision by a lower court that allowed a 10-year-old transgender girl in Indiana to play on her school’s girls’ softball team…