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Screenshot from the video purportedly showing Ukrainian prisoner of war.
Zelensky honors unarmed soldier filmed being shot
KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelensky has honored a captured Ukrainian soldier who was filmed apparently being killed by Russian troops last week.Oleksandr Matsievskiy was unarmed when he was videoed smoking a cigarette and shouting “Glory to Ukraine” before being gunned down.The footage has seen Moscow faced with fresh allegations of war crimes. On Sunday, President Zelensky awarded the 42-year-old with the Hero of Ukraine — the country’s highest honor.“Today, I have bestowed the title of Hero of Ukraine on soldier Oleksandr Matsievskiy,” elensky said in his nightly address from Kyiv.“A man that all Ukrainians will know. A man who will be forever remembered. For his bravery, for his confidence in Ukraine and for his ‘Glory to Ukraine’.”Matsievskiy, a sniper serving...
March 13, 2023

Zelensky honors unarmed soldier filmed being shot

BBC presenter Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker will be allowed back on BBC after impartiality storm
LONDON — Gary Lineker will resume his duties on the BBC’s flagship soccer show after an impartiality storm over his criticism of the government’s asylum policy that plunged Britain’s public broadcaster into scheduling chaos over the weekend.In a statement on Monday, the BBC’s Director General Tim Davie said he recognized it had been a “difficult period for staff” but that he was looking forward to Lineker’s reinstatement.He also announced a review of the BBC’s social media guidance would be led by an independent expert, acknowledging the existing guidance had caused “potential confusion.”“Gary is a valued part of the BBC and I know how much the BBC means to Gary, and I look forward to him presenting our coverage this coming weekend,” the statement read.Lineker, a...
March 13, 2023

Gary Lineker will be allowed back on BBC after impartiality storm

Ukrainian servicemen travel towards Bakhmut on Saturday
Ukraine war: Heavy losses reported as battle for Bakhmut rages
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces had suffered more than 1,100 deaths in the past few days, with many more seriously injured.Russia said it had killed more than 220 Ukrainian service members over the past 24 hours.The BBC is unable to verify the numbers given by either side.Analysts say Bakhmut has little strategic value, but has become a focal point for Russian commanders who have struggled to deliver any positive news to the Kremlin.Capture of the city would bring Russia slightly closer to its goal of controlling the whole of Donetsk region, one of four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine annexed by Russia last September following referendums widely condemned outside Russia as a sham."In less than a week, starting from 6 March, we managed to...
March 13, 2023

Ukraine war: Heavy losses reported as battle for Bakhmut rages

Protesters shout slogans during a rally following the Feb. 28 train collision in central Greece, in front of the parliament, in Athens, Sunday.
Protesters in Greece demand justice for victims of deadly train crash
ATHENS —Thousands of demonstrators staged fresh protests in Greece on Sunday demanding justice for the victims of the country’s deadliest train crash two weeks ago.Police said that more than 8,000 people in Athens’ Syntagma Square on Sunday amid growing anger over safety failures that lead to the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train that killed 57 people on Feb. 28.Protesters waved banners that read ‘We won’t forget, we won’t forgive’.In Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, about 5,000 people demonstrated, listened to speeches and shouted slogans, such as “we will be the voice for all the dead.”“It was a train track of death,” said one protester. “They knew about it and didn’t do anything. They didn’t take any measures and...
March 12, 2023

Protesters in Greece demand justice for victims of deadly train crash

French Senate passes controversial pension reform on Saturday.
France’s Senate passes controversial reform to pension system
PARIS — France’s Senate passed a controversial reform to the country’s pension system by 195 votes to 112 late Saturday night. It means the government’s package to raise the pension age from 62 to 64 is another step towards becoming law.Gérard Larcher, the French Senate president, announced: “We have reached the end of this very dense debate in which everyone has spoken. Since Thursday, March 2, we have sat continuously for ten days and almost as many nights for a total of more than 100 hours of debate. We have registered a record number of amendments and sub-amendments: 8,900 in total.”French Senators had already voted on Thursday in favor of a decisive article of the bill.The text must now be agreed upon during a joint committee on Wednesday March 15. If deputies and...
March 12, 2023

France’s Senate passes controversial reform to pension system

Mesut Muttaliboglu’s building in Istanbul failed a recent earthquake safety test — and now he has to move out. — courtesy photo
Turkey earthquake: Istanbul residents fear homes will collapse
ISTANBUL — The crack in Mesut Muttaliboglu’s bedroom wall is so wide, he can fit a car key into it.He turns it sideways, and with a flick of his wrist, a large chunk of plaster flies off the wall and crashes to the ground.It’s why he and his family are moving out of the flat they’ve lived in for the last 15 years. The whole building has been condemned after failing an earthquake safety test.There’s a very high chance that a tremor would bring this whole block crashing to the ground.Here in Istanbul, fear is growing.The two powerful earthquakes in Turkey’s south that claimed almost 50,000 lives have brought a new urgency to its biggest city. Home to 15 million people, it sits on the North Anatolian fault line, and experts predict it’s due its own major earthquake before...
March 12, 2023

Turkey earthquake: Istanbul residents fear homes will collapse

A worker (center) tells people that the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters is closed on Friday in Santa Clara, California. — courtesy Getty Images
UK to help tech firms after Silicon Valley Bank collapse
LONDON — The government is working on a plan so that UK tech firms caught up in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank won’t run out of cash, it has said.The Treasury said it wanted to “minimize damage to some of our most promising companies in the UK” after the US bank’s failure last Friday.US regulators shut down the bank on Friday in what is the largest failure of a US bank since 2008. The bank’s UK subsidiary will be put into insolvency from Sunday evening.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey “were up late last night” and have been “working through the weekend to come up with a solution” to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank UK, Hunt said on Sunday.While there’s no risk to the UK’s financial system as a...
March 12, 2023

UK to help tech firms after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Sodium, an essential nutrient, increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, and premature death when eaten in excess. — courtesy Unsplash/Peter Werkman
A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report
GENEVA — Implementing sodium reduction policies could save an estimated seven million lives globally by 2030, WHO said in a new report launched on Thursday.“Unhealthy diets are a leading cause of death and disease globally, and excessive sodium intake is one of the main culprits,” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared.A first-of-its-kind WHO global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve its global target of reducing sodium intake by 30 percent, by 2025.“This report shows that most countries are yet to adopt any mandatory sodium reduction policies, leaving their people at risk of heart attack, stroke, and other health problems,” he said.To reverse this trend, the global healthy agency is...
March 12, 2023

A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report

Russia’s night rocket attack ruined private houses in the Lviv region, Ukraine, on Thursday.
IAEA chief furious as Russian strikes threaten Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
KYIV — At least nine people were killed in the latest wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine during the early hours of Thursday morning.It was the heaviest aerial bombardment in weeks, with at least 81 Russian missiles and eight suicide drones striking residential areas and key infrastructure across the country, according to Ukrainian officials.Nearly half of all households in Kyiv were without heat, as were many in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, where the water was also cut on a day when outdoor temperatures were expected to fall to around freezing, local officials said.Around 150,000 households were left without power in Ukraine’s northwestern Zhytomyr region. In the southern port of Odesa, there were emergency blackouts due to damaged power lines.“[We heard a] crazy...
March 11, 2023

IAEA chief furious as Russian strikes threaten Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Four people were reportedly injured and taken to a local hospital after Russian shelling of Ukraine.
Fight for Bakhmut intensifies as Russian forces renew push
KYIV — Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said the fighting in Bakhmut had “escalated,” as Russian forces attempt to break through Ukrainian defense lines that have largely held firm for the past six months.Just west of Bakhmut, shelling and missile strikes hit the Ukrainian-held city of Kostiantynivka. The regional prosecutor's office said eight people were injured and more than a dozen homes were damaged or destroyed in the attacks.At least four people were reportedly injured and taken to a local hospital. Ukrainian police said Russian forces attacked the town with S-300 missiles and cluster munitions.Thursday's pre-dawn Russian onslaught was the largest such attack in three weeks with more than 80 Russian missiles and exploding drones.The barrage, which also...
March 11, 2023

Fight for Bakhmut intensifies as Russian forces renew push

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