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Electoral posters are displayed in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday. — courtesy AP
Soaring inflation and weapon deliveries to Ukraine top Estonia voter concerns
TALLINN —Polling stations reopened this morning in Estonia as the country votes in its first general election since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.The center-right Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, one of Europe’s most outspoken supporters of Ukraine, is a favorite to win.She faces a challenge from the far-right opposition Conservative People’s Party of Estonia, or EKRE, which is seeking to limit the Baltic nation’s exposure to the Ukraine crisis and is blaming the government for citizens’ economic misery.Early voting has been open since Monday and by Saturday 47% of the country’s one million eligible voters had already cast their ballots to pick representatives to the 101-seat parliament or riigikogu. Many Estonians prefer to vote electronically, casting...
March 05, 2023

Soaring inflation and weapon deliveries to Ukraine top Estonia voter concerns

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country “will further strengthen our relationship with the ICC”.
Zelensky says 70,000 war crimes committed in Ukraine as Kyiv moves to open ICC
KYIV — Ukraine’s top prosecutor says the country is moving towards opening an office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as Kyiv seeks to establish a special tribunal to prosecute Russian officials responsible for the war.The ICC is currently probing possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Ukraine but it has no mandate to pursue the broader crime of aggression.“Today, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a memorandum between the Ukraine government and the International Criminal Court, which will allow the opening of the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Ukraine in the near future,” the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin said.Kostin told a justice conference in Lviv it would “allow the ICC...
March 04, 2023

Zelensky says 70,000 war crimes committed in Ukraine as Kyiv moves to open ICC

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and Roberta Metsola in Lviv, Saturday. — courtesy Press Service of the President of Ukraine.
EU Parliament president holds talks in Ukraine with Zelensky
KYIV — The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv on Saturday, in what is her second visit to the country since Russia’s invasion.She promised him that cooperation between Kyiv and the EU parliament would “only grow stronger”, and said she hoped that Ukraine would be allowed to begin European Union membership negotiations this year.Brussels granted Kyiv formal candidate status in June last year. It had applied just days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24.In a Twitter post, Metsola praised Ukrainians as the “brave people who inspired the world” and “who sacrificed everything for our values”.Zelensky also took to social media to thank Metsola for her “leadership in supporting...
March 04, 2023

EU Parliament president holds talks in Ukraine with Zelensky

Women candidates for the lower house parliament in Somalia attend a political participation forum in Somalia. — courtesy AMISOM/Fardosa Hussein
For first time, women represented in all parliaments of the world
GENEVA — For the first time ever, there are women MPs in every single country on Earth, the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) said on Friday.In its latest annual report, the global body dedicated to promoting peace through parliamentary diplomacy and dialogue, also said that women’s participation has never been as diverse as it is in many countries today.The findings are based on data from the 47 countries that held elections last year.These polls saw women take an average of 25.8 percent of the seats available, representing a 2.3 percentage point increase, since elections were last held.Despite this positive data, IPU noted that it is nonetheless the smallest increase in women’s participation in six years. The 0.4 percent rise means that the global share of women in parliamentary...
March 04, 2023

For first time, women represented in all parliaments of the world

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3 quakes, one up to 4.4 magnitude, monitored in southern Turkiye
ISTANBUL — Turkiye announced monitoring three earthquakes on Saturday, with one being at 4.4 magnitude on Richter scale in southern Turkiye, with no damage untilnow.According to a statement by Turkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), the 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit Adiyaman province.It added that another earthquake of four magnitude hit Antakya in Hatay province and a third one with 4.1 magnitude hit Adana province.Turkiye has been hit by a series of earthquakes and aftershocks since the devastating earthquake of 7.7 magnitude that hit southern Turkiye and northern Syria on Feb. 6.The aftershock was felt in Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the disaster as the worst since the 1939 earthquake of 7.8...
March 04, 2023

3 quakes, one up to 4.4 magnitude, monitored in southern Turkiye

Bakhmut has lost 95% of its pre-war population since the start of the Russian invasion. — courtesy Reuters
Fighting in Bakhmut street but Russia not in control — deputy mayor
KYIV/ MOSCOW — Russian and Ukrainian forces are fighting in the streets of Bakhmut — but Russia does not control the eastern city, its deputy mayor has said.Oleksandr Marchenko also told the BBC the remaining 4,000 civilians are living in shelters without access to gas, electricity or water.Marchenko said “not a single building” had remained untouched and that the city is “almost destroyed”. Bakhmut has seen months of fighting, as Russia tries to take charge.“There is fighting near the city and there are also street fights,” Marchenko said. Taking the city would be a rare battlefield success in recent months for Russia.But despite that, the city’s strategic value has been questioned. Some experts say any Russian victory could be pyrrhic — that is, not worth the...
March 04, 2023

Fighting in Bakhmut street but Russia not in control — deputy mayor

A photo of the note found hidden in Rosalia Messina Denaro’s home. — courtesy Carabinieri
Coded note led to Italy mafia boss Denaro arrest
ROME/ PALERMO — A coded note hidden inside a chair leg helped lead to the arrest of Italy’s most-wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, a warrant shows.Police found the note during a covert operation at his sister Rosalia’s house — one month before his arrest in the Sicilian capital Palermo in January.Rosalia Messina Denaro was also arrested in Sicily on Friday. Her brother, 60, spent 30 years on the run and is believed to have evaded justice with help from family.He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra Mafia and was tried and sentenced to life in prison in absentia in 2002 of a string of murders.He was eventually caught by police outside a private clinic in Palermo, where he had been receiving treatment for cancer under a fake identity, on Jan. 16.More than 100...
March 04, 2023

Coded note led to Italy mafia boss Denaro arrest

Aftermath of Greek train crash.
Greek train crash may have been due to outdated signaling system, probe finds
ATHENS — Reports of potential “human error” have emerged following Tuesday’s fatal train crash in Greece.As the search for missing passengers continues, an investigation launched by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has pointed to failings in the train’s signaling system and a lack of investment in the railway service over the last number of decades.According to researchers, if this equipment was functional it could have prevented the train crash which killed more than 50 people.But anger is growing, as thousands of people, including rail workers, took to the streets on Thursday to confront the government on a degrading railway system.“We are angry at the company, at the government and past governments that did nothing to improve conditions in the Greek...
March 04, 2023

Greek train crash may have been due to outdated signaling system, probe finds

The proposed legislation will ban new sales of petrol and diesel across the EU after 2035.
EU delays final vote on combustion engine ban, exposing growing dissent among member
BRUSSELS — European Union member states decided on Friday morning to postpone a vote to ratify an EU-wide ban on the sale of new combustion engine vehicles as of 2035, reflecting growing discontent over one of the central measures to achieve climate neutrality by mid-century.The ban was designed as a gradual transition and proposes that all new cars and vans sold across the EU market from 2035 onwards should have a 100% reduction in CO2 emissions, a provision that will effectively exclude all those that run on petrol and diesel.Brussels chose 2035 as the cut-off date because the average lifespan of vehicles is 15 years and the Green Deal aims to make the entire economy CO2-neutral by 2050.Friday’s vote by EU ambassadors was supposed to be a mere formality after the bloc’s two...
March 04, 2023

EU delays final vote on combustion engine ban, exposing growing dissent among member

Rising global sea levels are less visible to the eye than many other effects of climate change.
Rising sea levels: The silent killer that is already a reality
AMSTERDAM — Rising global sea levels are less visible to the eye than many other effects of climate change. But these, like other problems, have accelerated significantly in recent decades. Since 1990, sea levels have increased by about 10 centimeters.According to scientists, even in an ideally favorable scenario, sea levels will have risen by more than half a meter by the end of the century. In the worst-case scenario, they will reach 1.5 meters by 2100.This will lead to the flooding of vast and densely populated areas. Some island states of Oceania may disappear entirely.If sea levels rise by one meter in Europe, some 13 million people in existing or potential flood zones could be forced to leave their homes.In Asia, it will affect the extremely populous deltas of large rivers, such as...
March 04, 2023

Rising sea levels: The silent killer that is already a reality

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