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US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky. — courtesy Getty Images
Biden vows to stand by Ukraine, despite budget fiasco
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has vowed continued US support for Ukraine, after further military funding was excluded from a last-minute congressional budget deal.The temporary measure, pushed through to avert a government shutdown, did not include $6bn (£4.92bn) in military aid for Kyiv — a top White House priority.Hardline Republicans oppose further military aid, with many openly opposing Biden’s approach to the war.But on Sunday Biden said Ukraine could “count on” US support. “We cannot, under any circumstances, allow US support to Ukraine to be interrupted,” Biden said.“I can reassure [Ukraine] we’ll get there, that we’re going to get it done,” he said on restoring funding for the war. “I want to assure our American allies... that you can count on our...
October 01, 2023

Biden vows to stand by Ukraine, despite budget fiasco

Refugees arrive in the border town of Goris in Armenia. — courtesy WHO/Nazik Armenakyan
UN teams support burn victims amid Karabakh crisis
GORIS — UN World Health Organization (WHO) teams in Goris, Armenia, are tirelessly working to assist not only the vast numbers of refugees fleeing the Karabakh region but also to provide urgent medical support to individuals grappling with severe burn injuries resulting from a massive fuel depot explosion that occurred last week amidst the exodus.More than 170 people were killed and over 200 more injured, many with grievous burns and in a critical condition, in an explosion at a crowded fuel depot along the route taken by those entering Armenia last Monday.WHO Special Envoy Robb Butler, who visited a burns treatment center in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described the suffering as “heart-breaking”.“Every single bed in this 80-bed hospital is occupied with a survivor from the...
October 01, 2023

UN teams support burn victims amid Karabakh crisis

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has again refused to say if the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2 will be axed. — courtesy Alstom
HS2: Sunak refuses to commit to Manchester link
LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has again refused to say if the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2 will be axed.Asked by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg if the high-speed line would reach Manchester, he said: “We’re getting on with delivering [the project], I’m not going to comment on this speculation.”Rising costs have led to growing doubts over this second leg of HS2. The first leg, between London and Birmingham, is already under construction.HS2 is seen as key to the government’s pledge to “level up” the country. Labour and some Tory MPs have warned against scaling it back.On Saturday, former PM Theresa May became the latest Conservative voice to warn against downgrading the project.Andy Street, the Tory mayor of the West Midlands, has also criticized the idea,...
October 01, 2023

HS2: Sunak refuses to commit to Manchester link

Armed police on the streets after Turkey blast.
Turkey: Two officers injured in blast outside Interior Ministry
ANKARA — An explosion outside Turkey’s Interior Ministry in the capital, Ankara, was a “terrorist attack”, the interior minister has said.Two attackers arrived in a commercial vehicle around 09:30 (06:30 GMT) and carried out the attack injuring two officers, Ali Yerlikaya said.Yerlikaya said an attacker blew himself up in front of a Ministry building and another was “neutralized”.The explosion happened just hours before parliament was due to reconvene.It is not clear who the attackers were. No-one has claimed the attack.A senior Turkish official told Reuters news agency the attackers had hijacked the vehicle and killed its driver in Kayseri, a city 260km (161 miles) southeast of Ankara.One of the injured officers suffered shrapnel injuries, he added.The first media reports of...
October 01, 2023

Turkey: Two officers injured in blast outside Interior Ministry

Scene after a fire at a nightclub in the Atalayas area in Murcia. — courtesy 112 Región de Murcia
Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia
MADRID — At least 13 people have died in a fire at a nightclub in the south-eastern city of Murcia, Spanish authorities say.The blaze broke out in the popular Teatre nightclub, in the Atalayas area, at around 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT).Video shared online showed flames raging above the building and thick, dark smoke pouring out of its windows.Emergency services are looking for people who are missing and were in the premises at the time.They have warned the number of victims could still rise.A 28-year-old woman who has not been found sent a voice note to her mother when the fire had started, according to the La Verdad de Murcia newspaper, saying: “Mummy, I love you, we’re going to die.”She had gone out with her partner and some friends from the nearby town of Caravaca de la...
October 01, 2023

Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia

Robert Fico has vowed to stop military aid to Ukraine. — courtesy EPA
Slovakia elections: Populist party wins vote but needs allies for coalition
PRAGUE — A populist pro-Moscow party led by former Prime Minister Robert Fico has won Slovakia’s parliamentary elections, with almost all votes counted.The Smer-SSD party had a clear lead with almost 24% of the vote despite exit polls suggesting victory by a liberal centrist party.Smer has pledged an immediate end to military support for Ukraine. Fico was forced to step down as PM following the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak in 2018.He will be expected to start coalition talks on forming the next government. The liberal Progressive Slovakia party, which exit polls suggested had won the election, polled at about 17%.The pro-European Hlas party, which could decide who forms the next government, came third with 15%.The party’s leftist leader Peter Pellegrini — who is a...
October 01, 2023

Slovakia elections: Populist party wins vote but needs allies for coalition

A man fishes on the banks of the Mithi River in western India that has become an open dump for sludge oil and hazardous chemicals. — courtesy UNICEF/Magray
New UN framework to protect environment from harmful chemicals
BONN, Germany — A new global framework to reduce environmental risks from chemicals and waste was adopted at a UN conference on Saturday, with countries committing to phase out the most harmful ones.Agreed at the fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5), in Bonn, Germany, the Global Framework on Chemicals sets concrete targets and guidelines across the lifecycle of chemicals.Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), welcomed the new framework.“Everyone on this planet should be able to live and work without fear of falling sick or dying from chemical exposure. Nature, free from pollution, should be able to thrive and support humanity for millennia to come,” she said.“This is why this framework provides a vision for a planet free...
October 01, 2023

New UN framework to protect environment from harmful chemicals

Armenian refugees wait in a square of Goris city center on Friday. — courtesy AFP via Getty Images
Armenia says 100,000 refugees flee Nagorno-Karabakh
GORIS — More than 100,000 people have fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenia said.It means that almost the entire population of the ethnic Armenian enclave has left since Azerbaijan seized the region last week.Azerbaijan has said it wants to reintegrate the area and treat its residents as equals, but an Armenian spokesman said this was just a “lie”.Nagorno-Karabakh — recognized as part of Azerbaijan — had been run by ethnic Armenians for three decades.The mountainous region in the South Caucasus has been supported by Armenia — but also by its ally, Russia.At least 200 ethnic Armenians and dozens of Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as Azerbaijan’s army swept in. As part of a ceasefire deal, separatists have agreed to surrender their weapons.The leader of the self-declared...
September 30, 2023

Armenia says 100,000 refugees flee Nagorno-Karabakh

Refugees arrive in the border town of Goris in Armenia. — courtesy UNHCR/Karen Minasyan
Karabakh emergency escalates, thousands still pouring into Armenia: UN agencies
GORIS — Over 88,000 refugees from the Karabakh region have fled to Armenia in less than a week and humanitarian needs are surging, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.Some 65,000 have already been registered at government-run centers where long lines have formed.Late on Friday, UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi tweeted that more than 100,000 refugees had now arrived in Armenia from Karabakh.The agency is supporting the refugees with core relief items, said agency representative in Armenia Kavita Belani, who has been on the ground since day one of the crisis.“People are tired. This is a situation where they’ve lived under nine months of blockade. When they come in, they’re full of anxiety, they’re scared, they’re frightened and they want answers as to what’s going to happen...
September 30, 2023

Karabakh emergency escalates, thousands still pouring into Armenia: UN agencies

Unaccompanied migrant adolescents wait to be transferred to a reception facility in Lampedusa, Italy, after crossing the Central Mediterranean Sea. — courtesy UNICEF/Niccolò Corti
Mediterranean ‘becoming a cemetery for children and their futures’
GENEVA — More than 11,600 unaccompanied children have crossed the Central Mediterranean to Italy so far this year the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, an increase of 60 per cent compared with last year.More than 11,600 unaccompanied children have crossed the Central Mediterranean to Italy so far this year the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, an increase of 60 percent compared with last year.The number of arrivals peaked this month on the small island of Lampedusa off Italy’s southern coast, with 4,800 people arriving on a single day, the agency noted.According to news reports, a migrant reception center there was overwhelmed earlier this month, as aid and medical workers coped with transferring thousands of people to the mainland.Many of the flimsy and crowded...
September 30, 2023

Mediterranean ‘becoming a cemetery for children and their futures’

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