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Lt.-Gen. Tsokov has reportedly died following a missile strike in Berdyansk. — Military Informant/Telegram
Russian general reported killed in attack on Berdyansk hotel
MOSCOW/ KYIV — A senior Russian general has been killed in a missile strike in Ukraine, Russian sources have said.Lt. Gen. Oleg Tsokov is said to have died in a strike on a hotel housing Russian military commanders in Berdyansk, on Ukraine’s occupied southern coast.Russia’s Defense Ministry has not officially confirmed his death. But it was widely announced by Russian war channels on the Telegram messaging app.TV host Olga Skabeyeva said “absolutely all media” were reporting it.Lt. Gen. Tsokov was deputy commander of Russia’s southern military district. Skabeyeva who presents a talk show on the state-run Rossiya-1 channel said he was killed by a UK-supplied Storm Shadow missile.Andrei Gurulyov, an MP and retired general who appeared on her popular 60 Minutes show on Tuesday,...
July 12, 2023

Russian general reported killed in attack on Berdyansk hotel

White Lotus actor Paolo Camilli was among those expressing his anger that “a brief grope, if it’s under 10 seconds, isn’t considered a crime”. — courtesy Paolo Camilli/Instagram
Italian uproar over judge’s 10-second groping rule
ROME — Does it count as sexual harassment if an assault lasts less than 10 seconds?Many young people in Italy are expressing outrage on social media, after a judge cleared a school caretaker of groping a teenager, because it did not last long enough.The case involves a 17-year-old student at a Rome high school.She described walking up a staircase to class with a friend, when she felt her trousers fall down, a hand touching her buttocks and grabbing her underwear.“Love, you know I was joking,” the man told her when she turned around.After the incident, which happened in April 2022, the student reported the caretaker, 66-year-old Antonio Avola, to police. He admitted to groping the student without consent, but said it was a joke.A Rome public prosecutor asked for a three-and-a-half...
July 12, 2023

Italian uproar over judge’s 10-second groping rule

Men pray at a mosque in Afghanistan. — courtesy UNAMA/Barat Ali Batoor
Türk calls for respect as rights council urgently debates Qur’an burnings
GENEVA — The UN’s top human rights official urged respect for religious tolerance on Tuesday as Member States gathered in Geneva in response to the recent burning of the Holy Qur’an in the Swedish capital.Addressing the Human Rights Council (HRC), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk noted that the tome was the “core of faith” for well over one billion Muslims.Those who had burned the Qur’an most likely did so “to express contempt and inflame anger”, Türk said, as he warned that these acts also aimed “to drive wedges between people”, to provoke and transform differences into hatred.Dialogue to repair differences of opinion and faiths is key, the UN rights chief continued, as he condemned hate speech against and by people of all mainstream and minority...
July 12, 2023

Türk calls for respect as rights council urgently debates Qur’an burnings

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks with the media as he arrives at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Zelensky meets NATO leaders after Ukraine membership snub
VILNIUS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with NATO leaders after they declined to commit to a timeline for Ukraine's accession to the alliance.Speaking alongside Zelensky, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO would be issuing a formal invitation for Ukraine to join once the allies agree the conditions for membership are met.In the meantime, he said, NATO has agreed to set up "a multi-year program of assistance...reaffirming that Ukraine will become a member of NATO and removing the requirement for the membership action plan."The agreement, he said, will help Ukraine transfer from Soviet-era military assets to be fully interoperable with other allies, a major plank of the alliance's setup.Also set up is a new NATO-Ukraine Council, a...
July 12, 2023

Zelensky meets NATO leaders after Ukraine membership snub

The two-day Nato summit is taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania
G7 to announce long-term Ukraine security package at Nato summit
VILNIUS — G7 members are expected to ratify a wide-ranging security pact with Ukraine at the Nato summit on Wednesday.But they stopped short of providing a timeframe for Kyiv to join the security alliance, provoking the anger of President Volodymyr Zelensky.The security arrangement will include defence equipment, training and intelligence sharing.And UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it would send a "strong signal" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.The security arrangement with Ukraine comes after its President Volodymyr Zelensky raged against Nato's reluctance to offer Kyiv a timeframe for joining the alliance.G7 leaders will sign the declaration in Vilnius on Wednesday on the sidelines of the second day of a Nato defence summit.Speaking ahead of a meeting with...
July 12, 2023

G7 to announce long-term Ukraine security package at Nato summit

Riikka Purra (left) has joined the prime minister (second right) and two other coalition party leaders in signing a statement on zero tolerance of racism. — courtesy Kimmo Penttinen
Far-right Finnish leader Riikka Purra sorry in racist posts uproar
HELSINKI — Finland's far-right Finance Minister Riikka Purra has apologized for a string of racist comments she posted 15 years ago that have just come to light.Describing the posts as “stupid”, she said she was sorry for the harm and resentment they had caused.Purra's Finns Party secured high-profile Cabinet posts in the new government of conservative Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.But in only three weeks it has been beset with accusations.It is not a good look for a government that has barely got to grips with office, and for a prime minister who is due to welcome US President Joe Biden to Helsinki on Thursday.President Sauli Niinisto, who was attending the NATO summit in Lithuania, suggested it would be wise for the new government to “take a clear stance of zero tolerance...
July 11, 2023

Far-right Finnish leader Riikka Purra sorry in racist posts uproar

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Vilnius for NATO summit. — courtesy EPA
Allies refuse to give Ukraine timeframe on NATO joining
VILNIUS — NATO states have said Ukraine can join the military alliance “when allies agree and conditions are met” after President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the “absurd” delay to accession.In a communique, NATO said it recognized the need to move faster but would not be drawn on a timeframe.Earlier Zelensky said there seemed to be “no readiness” to invite Ukraine to NATO or make it a member. He is now in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where the summit is happening.Kyiv accepts it cannot join NATO while it is at war with Russia but wants to join as soon as possible after fighting ends.At a briefing on Tuesday afternoon NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said allies had reaffirmed that Ukraine would become a NATO member and had agreed to drop the procedural need for a formal...
July 11, 2023

Allies refuse to give Ukraine timeframe on NATO joining

Russian media has speculated that Rzhitsky could have been tracked on the Strava fitness app. — courtesy Strava
Russian ex-navy commander shot dead while jogging in Krasnodar
MOSCOW — A former Russian submarine captain who worked as a mobilization officer has been shot dead while jogging in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, according to local media.Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was shot dead on Monday by an unidentified gunman, Russia’s state-run Rossiya 1 reported.Several Russian media outlets speculated he may have been tracked via his profile on the Strava fitness app. Russian authorities have started an investigation into the killing.The country’s Investigative Committee — the equivalent of the US FBI — said a murder probe has been launched and that officials would seek to “establish all the circumstances of the incident, as well as the person who committed the crime and his motives”.The former Naval officer was shot in the back and the chest...
July 11, 2023

Russian ex-navy commander shot dead while jogging in Krasnodar

Global sea surface temperatures were at a record high in May and June 2023. — courtesy Unsplash/Rafael Garcin
Temperatures off the charts, but more records imminent: WMO
GENEVA — Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May, June, and July — and the warming El Niño weather pattern is only just getting started — experts at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday.Alarm bells have been rung at the UN agency in particular because of an “unprecedented peak” in sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.“The first week of July...could be considered as the warmest period or the warmest week ever recorded”, with a global average temperature close to 17.24 degrees Celsius on July 7, said Omar Baddour, chief of Climate Monitoring at WMO.The WMO expert added that daily June temperatures in the North Atlantic had been “dramatically high” compared to usual readings, while Antarctic sea ice levels reached...
July 11, 2023

Temperatures off the charts, but more records imminent: WMO

The Ocean Viking received an alert about the boat in distress via a helpline for migrants
Europe or death — teenage migrants risking it all to cross the Med
Migrants saved in one of the first rescue operations in the Mediterranean since hundreds of people died when a boat sank off the Greek coast, say nothing could deter them from trying to reach Europe. They spoke to the BBC's Alice Cuddy -- on board a rescue vessel patrolling the sea for migrant boats in distress. ATHENS — As the giant red and white rescue ship sails across an expanse of the Mediterranean Sea, the horizon is interrupted by the sight of a dark blue inflatable boat, crammed with bobbing heads.Rescue workers from the charity SOS Mediterranée don helmets and life jackets as they race to the scene in speedboats. They quickly pull the migrants onboard the vessels one by one, counting as they go.The boys and young men, most from The Gambia, have been at sea for 15 hours and...
July 11, 2023

Europe or death — teenage migrants risking it all to cross the Med

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