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A view shows a building of a restaurant heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in central Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine. — courtesy Reuters
Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation
KYIV/ MOSCOW — False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia’s invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days.Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users.Many misleading posts have been shared online about the recent riots in France, but one viral post last week focused on US military aid to Ukraine.It featured a screenshot of what appeared to be a headline from a news website, along with an image of two rifles.“French police are fired upon with American rifles that may have come from Ukraine,” reads the headline.Several Twitter accounts with Blue subscriptions have shared the post, which has...
July 09, 2023

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

Joint inspection teams at work under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. — courtesy UNODC/Duncan Moore
UN-brokered grain and fertilizer deals ‘indispensable’ to global food security
GENEVA — The food and fertilizer export deals brokered by the UN last year with Ukraine and Russia have played an “indispensable role” in supporting global food security and must continue, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday.In a statement issued by his Deputy Spokesperson, António Guterres reiterated “the importance of full and continued implementation” of the agreements signed last July in Istanbul, known as the Black Sea Initiative — allowing Ukrainian grain and foodstuffs safe passage to world markets — and the Memorandum of Understanding with Moscow over fertilizer exports.Russia is still weighing up if it will continue to be a part of the deal, agreed with Ukraine and administered along with the UN and Türkiye, past a deadline of July 17. Last May, Russia had...
July 08, 2023

UN-brokered grain and fertilizer deals ‘indispensable’ to global food security

Alexander Lobov has more than 20 years of experience in mine clearance around the world. He now helps Ukrainians affected by war and passes on his experience in his home country, which has been ravaged by war. — courtesy UNDP in Ukraine
Demining Ukraine: Bringing lifesaving expertise back home
KYIV — Alexander Lobov, a military engineer and mine action expert with the UN Development Program (UNDP), has worked in hotspots from Afghanistan to Somalia, but never imagined using this experience in his native country, Ukraine, now one of the world’s most heavily mined places since Russia’s full-scale invasion of February 2022.“People are suffering greatly due to landmines,” Lobov said, adding that experts have reported that almost one third of the country is contaminated with unexploded ordnance.“Many adults and children have died,” he said. “We have the highest rate of such losses in the world. No one knows what will happen in a few months because the war is not over.”Explosive objects are scattered over an area double the size of Austria, putting 14 million...
July 08, 2023

Demining Ukraine: Bringing lifesaving expertise back home

Screenshots of Bosnia Srebrenica Anniversary march shows participants in the annual peace march to remember the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide
SARAJEVO — The faultlines of old conflicts in the former Yugoslavia are the most active they have been in yearsA solemn peace march started on Saturday through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II.The annual 100-kilometer march retraces a route taken by thousands of men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group, made up primarily of Muslims, who were slaughtered as they tried to flee Srebrenica after it was captured by Bosnian Serb forces late in the 1992-95 war.The march is part of several events preceding the actual date commemorating the massacre on July 11.Nearly 4,000 people joined this year’s march, according to organizers. The event comes as ethnic tensions in Bosnia still persist with Bosnian...
July 08, 2023

Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide

President Zelensky called Snake Island a “place of victory” that would never be reconquered. — courtesy Telegram
President Zelensky visits Snake Island as war enters 500th day
KYIV — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a video of himself visiting an island that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance — as the war enters its 500th day.At the start of the war, Ukrainian soldiers defending Snake Island famously defied an order from a Russian warship to surrender.The Black Sea island was seized by Russia, but later reclaimed by Ukraine. In a video, the Ukrainian president called it a “place of victory” that would never be reconquered.In the undated clip, posted on Telegram, Zelensky described it as proof that Ukraine would return every inch of its territory taken by Russia since the war began on Feb. 24, 2022.“I want to thank from here, from this place of victory, each of our soldiers for these 500 days,” Zelensky said in the video, in which...
July 08, 2023

President Zelensky visits Snake Island as war enters 500th day

The attack caused fires in several cars, authorities say. — courtesy State Emergency Service Ukraine
Eight killed in Russian strike in Lyman, say authorities
KYIV — At least eight people have been killed in an attack on a residential area in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, the country’s authorities have said.Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said another 13 people were wounded in the Russian shelling of the town of Lyman.The strike caused fires in a house, a printing shop and three cars which have now been put out by rescuers, the Ministry said. It comes as the country marks the 500th day of the invasion.Ukraine’s counter-offensive, which began last month, continues to grind on in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.Its advances have been slow, as Russia continues its missile and drone attacks.The small city of Lyman is a key railway hub in the Donetsk, and was initially captured by Russia but then retaken by...
July 08, 2023

Eight killed in Russian strike in Lyman, say authorities

BBC logo outside New Broadcasting House in London. — courtesy PA Media
BBC presenter accused of paying teen for explicit photos —report
LONDON — A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.The newspaper reported that the unnamed male presenter had paid the alleged victim tens of thousands of pounds.It is understood that the BBC is looking into the allegations, and that the star is currently not scheduled to be on air in the coming days.The Sun said the young person’s family complained to the BBC on May 19.The family is reported to have become frustrated that the star remained on air and approached the newspaper, but said they wanted no payment for the story.The mother told the paper that the anonymous individual, now aged 20, had used the money from the presenter to fund a crack cocaine habit.She described to the paper how...
July 08, 2023

BBC presenter accused of paying teen for explicit photos —report

Prime Minster Mark Rutte has been holding three days of talks to try to save his coalition.
Rutte: Dutch coalition government collapses in migration row
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch government has collapsed because of a disagreement between coalition parties over asylum policies, Prime Minster Mark Rutte has said.The four parties were unable to find agreement in crisis talks chaired by Rutte on Friday.The government was set up a year and a half ago but the parties have been opposed on migration for some time.Rutte met King Willem-Alexander in The Hague to discuss forming a caretaker administration.He left after about an hour and a half, telling reporters: “It was a good discussion, but I’m not saying anything else because these discussions are confidential.”Local media reported fresh elections would probably be held in mid-November.Rutte’s conservative VVD party had been trying to limit the flow of asylum seekers, following a row last...
July 08, 2023

Rutte: Dutch coalition government collapses in migration row

Steven Bridges told the BBC he thought Threads could be good for new influencers. — courtesy Studio52
‘Almost every influencer will be hopping on to Threads’
LONDON — Thirty million may have signed up for Meta’s newly launched Threads app, but what do its users actually think?Threads, pitched as a “friendly” rival to Twitter, has many similar features to the other social media platform.Its lead feature is allowing users to instantly create a network with people they follow on Instagram.And Steven Bridges, a YouTuber with 448k followers, told the BBC he saw Threads as a “much-needed competitor” to Twitter.“Right now, there are a lot of people not happy at all with how Twitter’s being run,” he said.“Threads gives them a potentially viable place to engage in the same way that they would use Twitter.“People sort of know that Meta can run a social media company, so it gives a little bit of confidence that as it scales it will...
July 08, 2023

‘Almost every influencer will be hopping on to Threads’

The fire was quickly put out but most of the victims suffered from smoke inhalation
Italian retirement home fire in Milan leaves six dead and dozens hurt
MILAN — Six people have died and 81 others have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out in a room in a retirement home in the Italian city of Milan.The alarm was raised in the early hours of Friday at the Casa dei Coniugi home for the elderly.The blaze was quickly contained but Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said rescuers had to bring everyone out "almost one by one by the arm".The mayor told reporters "six deaths is a very heavy toll".However, he said it could have been worse. All the evidence pointed to the fire taking hold in one room where two women had been living.They were killed by the fire, he said, while the four other deaths were caused by smoke inhalation. According to Ansa news agency, five of the six victims were women.One of the staff raised the alarm...
July 07, 2023

Italian retirement home fire in Milan leaves six dead and dozens hurt

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