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Spanish maritime rescuers have spent days looking for the small Senegalese boat
Migrant boat from Senegal carrying 200 people missing off Canary Islands
MADRID — Spanish rescuers are searching waters off the Canary Islands for a boat carrying at least 200 African migrants who went missing more than a week ago.The aid group Walking Borders says the fishing boat sailed from Kafountine, a coastal town in southern Senegal that is roughly 1,700km (1,057 miles) from Tenerife.The group says many children are on board, Spain's Efe news agency reports.Two similar boats carrying dozens more people are also said to be missing.Spain's maritime rescue service told Efe that a plane had joined the search.The boat with 200 people on board left Kafountine on 27 June, heading for the Canary Islands.There are few details about the other two boats, however Reuters news agency quoted Helena Maleno of Walking Borders as saying that one has about 65...
July 10, 2023

Migrant boat from Senegal carrying 200 people missing off Canary Islands

The American president touched down at Stansted Airport near London on Sunday
Joe Biden in UK to meet Sunak and King Charles amid Ukraine concerns
LONDON — US President Joe Biden has landed in the UK ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania later this week - which comes after several allies questioned his call to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.The UK and Canada are among those who voiced concern about supplying the bombs, which are widely banned because of the danger they pose to civilians.The US says they are needed because Ukraine's weapon stocks are dwindling.On Monday, Biden will meet UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.The two men are expected to discuss various issues, including the war in Ukraine.Sunak has not directly criticised his US counterpart following Friday's cluster bomb announcement - but on Saturday he said that the UK was one of 123 countries signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty...
July 10, 2023

Joe Biden in UK to meet Sunak and King Charles amid Ukraine concerns

Fireworks were a popular weapon during the recent rioting in France. — courtesy EPA
France bans buying fireworks for Bastille Day after riots
PARIS — France has banned the sale, possession and transport of all fireworks during the upcoming Bastille Day festivities.The government issued a decree on Sunday prohibiting “pyrotechnic articles” for the July 14 celebrations that mark France’s national day.The move comes after rioting sparked by last month’s police killing of 17-year-old Nahel M by police in Nanterre. However, the ban does not apply to official firework displays organized by local authorities.“In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the July 14 festivities, the sale, carrying, transport and use of pyrotechnic articles and fireworks will be prohibited on national territory until July 15 inclusively,” said the edict, published in the French official gazette.Fireworks were...
July 09, 2023

France bans buying fireworks for Bastille Day after riots

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

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