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Members of the Siberian Battalion, which was formed mostly of volunteer Russian citizens joining the Ukrainian Armed Forces' International Legion
Ukrainian parliament passes controversial conscription law as war effort struggles
KYIV — Ukraine’s parliament passed a law on Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to water down the initial draft.Lawmakers dragged their feet for months over the law, which is expected to be unpopular. The law was spurred by a request from the military command under former army Commander Valerii Zaluzhny, who said Ukraine needs up to 500,000 new recruits to boost army ranks.Exhausted soldiers, on the frontlines since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, had no means to rotate out for rest, while many thousands of Ukrainian men continue to evade the draft.The law brings into effect a host of changes to the current system by expanding the powers of Ukrainian authorities...
April 11, 2024

Ukrainian parliament passes controversial conscription law as war effort struggles

Officers from the Federal Security Service's special forces check a house in Nalchik, Russia
Russian forces kill two suspected of plotting terror attacks
MOSCOW — Russian special forces killed two people suspected of plotting terror attacks in a shootout in the country's south on Thursday, the country's National Antiterror Committee said.According to the committee's statement, the suspects were blockaded on the outskirts of Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, and opened fire on special forces of the Federal Security Service.The committee did not give details of the actions that the suspects were believed to be planning, but the shootout came amid heightened security concerns after the March 22 attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed 145 people.An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. Kabardino-Balkaria is in the North Caucasus region where Islamic extremism...
April 11, 2024

Russian forces kill two suspected of plotting terror attacks

A firefighter tackles a blaze after a Russian attack on a power station at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on April 11, 2024
Largest power plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv region destroyed in Russian attack
KYIV — The largest power-generating plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv region was reportedly destroyed in a Russian missile attack on Thursday as Moscow steps up its attacks on infrastructure.Russian shelling caused a large-scale fire at the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant (TPP), with the company still working to localize the fire in the plant’s turbine workshop, energy company Centrenergo said in a statement.There were no casualties, and the attack has not resulted in power cuts in Ukraine’s capital region Kyiv or other regions supplied by Trypilska TPP.The plant was the largest supplier of electricity to the regions of Kyiv, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr, the Centrenergo statement said.The energy company has lost 100% of its power generation across its three plants, which have all been destroyed or...
April 11, 2024

Largest power plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv region destroyed in Russian attack

The frescos depict Greek mythology — Paris kidnaps Helen which triggers the Trojan War
Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city of Pompeii
POMPEII — Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79.Archaeologists say the frescos are among the finest to be found in the ruins of the ancient site.Mythical Greek figures such as Helen of Troy are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall.The room's near-complete mosaic floor incorporates more than a million individual white tiles.A third of the lost city has still to be cleared of volcanic debris. The current dig, the biggest in a generation, is underlining Pompeii's position as the world's premier window on the people and culture of the Roman empire.Park director Dr Gabriel Zuchtriegel presented the "black room" exclusively to the BBC on...
April 11, 2024

Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city of Pompeii

Police believe the woman's death may be related to a ghost-hunting competition being played in France on the social media platform TikTok
French woman found dead in Italian church was 'searching for ghosts' in possible Tik Tok stunt
ROME — A 22-year-old French woman whose blood-drained body was found in an abandoned church in northern Italy’s Aosta Valley over the weekend had been looking for a haunted house believed to contain ghosts, according to police.She told family members about her plans before leaving the village near Lyon where she lived, a police spokeswoman in the town of La Salle told CNN.Police believe the victim could have been attempting to carry out a TikTok stunt, adding that her death could be related to a ghost hunting competition being played in France on the social media platform. The other working theories are that it was a “consented murder” or sacrifice, or an attempt to carry out a social media prank in the deconsecrated church. Police are still searching for a young man who was seen...
April 11, 2024

French woman found dead in Italian church was 'searching for ghosts' in possible Tik Tok stunt

Habibur Masum, 25, has been charged with the murder of Kalsuma Akter
Bradford stabbing: Man charged with murder of Kulsuma Akter as she pushed pram
LONDON — Police have charged a 25-year-old man with the murder of Kulsuma Akter, who was stabbed to death as she pushed her baby in a pram in Bradford.Habibur Masum, from Burnley, was charged on Wednesday, after a four-day manhunt ended in his arrest early on Tuesday morning.He is scheduled to appear at Bradford Magistrates Court on Thursday.Four other men aged in their 20s were also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and drug offences.The four men — all from the West Midlands area — were arrested in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and are currently in police custody.In a statement, West Yorkshire Police added that another 23-year-old man who arrested on Monday on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released on bail.Masum, of Leamington Avenue, has also been charged...
April 11, 2024

Bradford stabbing: Man charged with murder of Kulsuma Akter as she pushed pram

Bathers enjoy the beach in Barbate in southern Spain's Cadiz province
Spain to end golden visas for foreign real estate investors
MADRID — Spain’s cabinet has approved measures to scrap the country's so-called golden visa scheme.It was introduced in 2013 in the wake of a housing market crash and euro currency crisis in a bid to revitalize the property sector and granted residency rights to wealthy foreigners who invested in real estate.But critics say it creates inflationary pressure and acts as a back door for dirty money to enter the economy. That prompted Pedro Sanchez’s government to announce in October that the scheme would be phased out.“We are going to take the necessary measures to ensure that housing is a right and not just a speculative business,” Sanchez said.The Minister of Housing said that between 2013 and 2023, more than 14,000 such permits had been issued, mostly to citizens of China and...
April 11, 2024

Spain to end golden visas for foreign real estate investors

The New Pact aims to introduce common and predictable rules to manage irregular migration.
European Parliament narrowly endorses EU migration reform
STRASBOURG — The European Parliament has narrowly approved the wide-reaching reform of the European Union's migration and asylum policy.The move was preceded by uncertainty due to a growing chorus of dissent from the right and the left, which, despite gaining traction, failed to derail the momentous vote on Wednesday afternoon."We have listened, we have acted and we have delivered on one of the main concerns of people across Europe," said Roberta Metsola, the Parliament's president."This is a historic day," she declared.The so-called New Pact on Migration and Asylum, an elaborate set of five separate but intertwined pieces of legislation, only needs the final green light from member states, which is expected at the end of the month.The New Pact envisions...
April 11, 2024

European Parliament narrowly endorses EU migration reform

Rescuers scour various areas in many villages, which are now completely flooded, in the region of Orenburg.
Russia floods: Ural river reaches critical level in Orenburg
MOSCOW — Russia has said the situation is “very, very tense” as floodwaters continue to rise in the city of Orenburg and surrounding areas.“Large amounts of water are coming to new regions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Wednesday.Water levels in the Ural river near Orenburg rose to over 10m (33ft) on Wednesday, Ria news agency reported, well above its bursting point.The flooding is being described as the worst to hit the region in 80 years.Thousands of people have had to flee their homes in southern Russia, and officials in neighboring Kazakhstan say the number of evacuees there has risen to 97,000.Entire villages have been engulfed by overflowing rivers.As many as 2,000 homes have been flooded in Orenburg, where water levels have surpassed the critical level of 9.3m...
April 10, 2024

Russia floods: Ural river reaches critical level in Orenburg

Alleged asylum seekers arrive in the UK on a Border Force boat. — courtesy PA Media
UK foreign aid spending on asylum seekers rises again
LONDON — More than a quarter of all UK overseas aid was spent on asylum costs at home last year, new figures show.The Foreign Office statistics reveal £4.3bn of its foreign aid budget went on supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.That represents a 16% increase from the £3.7bn that was spent in 2022.Critics say the government has "lost its grip" by allowing the Home Office to use UK foreign aid budgets, weakening crisis prevention schemes.Labour's shadow international development minister Lisa Nandy said it "beggars belief" that the government was using the overseas aid budget to "bail out their failing asylum system with a blank check".She said: "This is sticking plaster politics at its worst, terrible value for money for British...
April 10, 2024

UK foreign aid spending on asylum seekers rises again

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