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Dmitry Kurashov has been sentenced to life in jail
Russian soldier sentenced to life in jail in unprecedented Ukrainian trial
KYIV — A Ukrainian court has handed down the first jail sentence for life against a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war.Dmitry Kurashov, 27, was found guilty of shooting dead Vitalii Hodniuk, a veteran 41-year-old Ukrainian soldier who had surrendered following capture in 2024.Ukraine's national police said that "expert reports, witness testimony and video footage from the scene confirmed that the Russian soldier deliberately killed the POW on the orders of his commanders, who had instructed troops not to take Ukrainian soldiers captive".In a months-long trial which began earlier this year, the court heard how Kurashov's unit stormed a Ukrainian position in the region of Zaporizhzhia on the morning of 6 January 2024.The prosecution said that although...
November 07, 2025

Russian soldier sentenced to life in jail in unprecedented Ukrainian trial

A banner reads: 'Kill Erdoğan with his own weapons' as protesters march during a demonstration against the Turkish president in Bern, 25 March, 2017
Swiss top court upholds conviction of four over 'Kill Erdoğan' banner at 2017 rally
BERN — Switzerland's top court has rejected an appeal by four protesters who were convicted of public incitement to a crime over a banner that called for the killing of Turkey's president at a demonstration more than eight years ago.In a statement on Wednesday, the Federal Tribunal said it upheld a lower court's decision over the banner that read "Kill Erdoğan with his own weapons," a reference to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, at a March 2017 protest in the capital Bern.The banner featured an image of the Turkish leader with a gun pointed at his temple.A regional court convicted the defendants in 2020, handing down fines and suspended prison sentences."Based on the concrete circumstances — the selected image, associated with text — the banner cannot objectively be...
November 06, 2025

Swiss top court upholds conviction of four over 'Kill Erdoğan' banner at 2017 rally

The harbour on the Island of Oleron, France
Car ramming injures 10 people on French island, authorities say
LONDON — A motorist rammed and injured several pedestrians and cyclists on the French island of Oléron, off the Atlantic coast, on Wednesday.Police swiftly arrived at the scene and apprehended the driver “with difficulty,” BFMTV reported on Wednesday, citing the mayor of Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron, Christophe Sueur.He was taken into custody, BFMTV added.Authorities subsequently opened an investigation, according to the French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. France’s national anti-terror prosecutor’s office is also monitoring the case, BFMTV said.Ten passersby were injured, BFMTV said. At least two people are in a critical condition, the interior minister wrote in a post on X.Some of the survivors will be evacuated by helicopter to Poitiers, a city in mainland France, the mayor...
November 05, 2025

Car ramming injures 10 people on French island, authorities say

A police vehicle is parked outside the Brussels Airport
Suspected drone sightings disrupt flights at Belgium airports
BRUSSELS — Suspected drone sightings have disrupted flights at airports across Belgium on Tuesday, with no flights departing or arriving at Brussels Airport — the country's busiest.Air traffic there was suspended around 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after a drone sighting. An hour later it briefly reopened, before closing again shortly after.Liege Airport has also been affected and it is not clear when flights will resume. Local media also reported drone sightings at the Kleine-Brogel and Florennes military airbases, local media reports.It is the latest in a string of suspected drone sightings causing disruption at European airports — including in Munich, Copenhagen and Oslo.A statement on the Brussels Airport website on Tuesday evening read: "There are currently no departing or...
November 05, 2025

Suspected drone sightings disrupt flights at Belgium airports

Pokrovsk has been almost entirely emptied of civilians
Zelensky visits troops near embattled front line town of Pokrovsk
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has visited troops near the town of Pokrovsk, where the fiercest front line battle between Russia and Ukraine is currently taking place.Zelensky posted photos showing him meeting personnel at a command post in the Dobropillya sector, some 20km (12 miles) north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.Kyiv's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskiy, said on Monday that Ukraine was increasing pressure on the Dobropillya front to "force the enemy to disperse its forces and make it impossible to concentrate their main efforts in the Pokrovsk area".Russia has been trying to seize Pokrovsk — a strategic frontline town and logistic hub — for over a year.Although it has taken them months to approach the town's borders, Russian...
November 05, 2025

Zelensky visits troops near embattled front line town of Pokrovsk

Gopichand Hinduja
Head of UK's richest family dies aged 85
LONDON — The head of Britain's richest family, Gopichand Hinduja, has died aged 85.Known as GP, Hinduja and his family made their fortune from the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group, which operates in 11 sectors including finance, media and entertainment, and oil.It has about 200,000 staff around the world.The family said in a statement: "He will leave a deep hole at the heart of our family."They added that he would be "remembered for his formidable work".Hinduja helped transform his father's modest textile and trading businesses into a global conglomerate and one of India's largest companies.Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer, said he would be remembered as someone who "personified" the links between India and the UK."Whether it was in banking, whether it was in...
November 05, 2025

Head of UK's richest family dies aged 85

Larysa Shchyrakova was jailed in Belarus in 2022 for 'extremism'
Freed in Trump deal: Prisoners in exile tell of brutality behind bars in Belarus
VILNIUS — Larysa would have been happier staying in prison for the final four months of her sentence, if she could have gone home at the end of it.Instead she was bussed over the border from Belarus into Lithuania with 51 other political prisoners. They were released in September as part of a deal to relax sanctions hatched between Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko and US President Donald Trump.During the three years she spent behind bars for "extremism" and "discrediting" Belarus, Larysa Shchyrakova missed her mother's funeral. Now she cannot visit her grave.She left behind her son, her home, her dog and all her possessions. Like most of the freed prisoners, Larysa has no documents, and risks arrest if she returns."You lose everything overnight. It's a...
November 05, 2025

Freed in Trump deal: Prisoners in exile tell of brutality behind bars in Belarus

German federal police officers board a train near a border crossing point between Germany and Czech Republic at the station in Furth am Wald. (File photo)
Latvian man arrested in Austria after threatening to take hostages on train
VIENNA — A Latvian man has been arrested in Austria after threatening to take people hostage on a train traveling from Vienna to Innsbruck, police said.The 31-year-old threatened several train passengers with violence at 1 pm on Monday, and said he would take hostages if police came on board, authorities said.The suspect was arrested when the train stopped in Salzburg's main station.He became aggressive and one officer was injured while the arrest was made, local media reported.A video shared on X by the NEXTA news outlet shows a man being apprehended at the station and carried away by several police officers.The footage could not be independently verified by Euronews.The suspect was not armed and his motives remain unclear, the police said.The incident happened just two days after...
November 04, 2025

Latvian man arrested in Austria after threatening to take hostages on train

Patriot missile launchers acquired from the US last year are seen deployed in Warsaw
Ukraine gets more Patriot air defense systems from Germany to counter Russian attacks
KYIV — Ukraine has received more US-made Patriot air defense systems to help it counter Russia's daily aerial barrages, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as Russian drones killed one and injured five others in the latest overnight attack."More Patriots are now in Ukraine and being put into operation," Zelenskyy said in a social media post late on Sunday."Of course, more systems are needed to protect key infrastructure sites and our cities across the entire territory of our state."He thanked Germany and its Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the systems.The sophisticated Patriot systems are the most effective weapon against Russian missiles.Zelensky has pleaded with Western partners to provide more of them, but production limitations and the need to maintain stockpiles have slowed their...
November 04, 2025

Ukraine gets more Patriot air defense systems from Germany to counter Russian attacks

Latvian lawmakers attend a Saeima session in Riga
Latvia's president asks parliament to rethink Istanbul Convention exit
RIGA — Latvia's President Edgars Rinkēvičs has said he is sending a law on the country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention back to parliament for further review, public broadcaster LSM reported on Monday.The parliament, or Saeima, voted on 31 October to withdraw from the human rights treaty which opposes violence against women and domestic violence.32 lawmakers voted to stay in the treaty, while 56 voted to leave, saying the treaty promotes "radical feminism based on the ideology of gender". There were two abstentions.Rinkēvičs said withdrawing from the treaty would send a "contradictory message.""The ratification and denunciation of the Convention during one Saeima term sends a contradictory message to both Latvian society and Latvia's allies internationally...
November 04, 2025

Latvia's president asks parliament to rethink Istanbul Convention exit

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