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Moldovans wave EU flags during a pro-European rally in Chisinau
Thousands mass for pro-EU rally in Moldovan capital amid tensions with Russia
CHISINAU — A huge pro-EU rally has taken place in Moldova's capital Chisinau, organized by the country's President Maia Sandu.An estimated 75,000 people turned out to support Ms Sandu's well-publicized bid for Moldova to gain EU membership.Her pro-Western government previously accused Russia of stoking tensions by supporting Moldova's pro-Russian opposition Sor party. Moscow denies meddling in the country's affairs.Ms Sandu told demonstrators her country no longer wanted to be an outlier."We don't want to be on the outskirts of Europe anymore," she said, pledging that Moldova would become a European Union member nation by 2030.Moldova also "does not want to be blackmailed by the Kremlin," she told the rally, where crowds waved EU flags and...
May 22, 2023

Thousands mass for pro-EU rally in Moldovan capital amid tensions with Russia

Police in Marseille are struggling to contain turf wars among drug gangs. — courtesy Getty Images
Kalashnikov assault on car kills three in Marseille
PARIS — Three men have been shot dead in a car in the southern French city of Marseille, which has seen a recent surge in drug violence.Five people were in the vehicle and had just left a nightclub when they were fired on with Kalashnikovs, police say. Two of those targeted fled the scene, as did the unknown attackers.Police linked the incident to the drugs trade. It brings to 21 the number of drug-related killings in Marseille so far this year, AFP news agency says.The latest shooting happened in a residential area of France’s second-largest city. The car carrying the five men — all in their 20s — was fired on shortly after they left nightclub around 05:00 (03:00 GMT).Investigators told French media that the five were known to police and lived in a housing estate where drug crime...
May 21, 2023

Kalashnikov assault on car kills three in Marseille

Girls await their turns to get immunized at Rusung Raya Elementary School, in Indonesia. — courtesy UNICEF/Clark
Progress on human health ‘in peril’, warns UN chief
GENEVA — Global life expectancy has grown by 50 percent since the birth of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) 75 years ago, the UN chief said on Sunday, but in the wake of COVID, climate change, and other challenges, “progress is in peril”.Secretary-General António Guterres was addressing the annual opening of the World Health Assembly, the decision making body of the WHO, and said that the agency was born out of a spirit of cooperation, leading to dramatic improvements in human health.“Global life expectancy — up over 50 percent; Infant mortality — down sixty percent in 30 years; smallpox —eradicated; And polio on the verge of extinction. But progress is in peril. War and conflict threaten millions. The health of billions is endangered by the climate crisis,” he...
May 21, 2023

Progress on human health ‘in peril’, warns UN chief

Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis casts his ballot in Sunday's elections.
Mitsotakis center-right leads in Greece but has no majority, exit poll suggests
ATHENS — Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis are set to win Sunday's elections but are well short of the majority for an outright victory, an initial exit poll suggests.Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's party is heading for 36-40% of the vote. Predecessor Alexis Tsipras's center-left Syriza is well behind on 25-29%.If neither party can form a coalition then Greek voters will return to vote in a second round in early July. The joint exit poll, by six polling agencies, was greeted with cheers at New Democracy headquarters in Athens.However, experts have warned it may prove unreliable because many voters refused to reveal which party they had backed.One of the big winners of the election appeared to be Syriza's socialist...
May 21, 2023

Mitsotakis center-right leads in Greece but has no majority, exit poll suggests

The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine. — courtesy IAEA
IAEA warns of ‘increasingly tense military situation’ around Ukraine nuclear plant
VIENNA/ KYIV — The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continued to warn of the potential nuclear threat in the Ukraine conflict amid rising tensions surrounding the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Friday in a statement, that a location near the town of Enerhodar, home of most of the plant’s staff, reportedly came under artillery fire earlier in the day, “in the latest incident indicating an increasingly tense military situation in the area.”The ZNPP, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, is located just a few kilometers from Enerhodar.IAEA experts present at the plant reported that it had not been affected “but the proximity once again underlined persistent nuclear safety and security dangers at a time of...
May 20, 2023

IAEA warns of ‘increasingly tense military situation’ around Ukraine nuclear plant

Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed to control Bakhmut in a video flanked by Wagner fighters. — courtesy Telegram
Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Wagner claim over Bakhmut
KYIV — The battle for Bakhmut has become the longest of the war that Russia launched last yearRussian mercenaries are in full control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, their chief said — a claim immediately dismissed by Ukrainian officials.“We took the whole city,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, posing with some of his Wagner fighters.Ukraine’s deputy defense minister rejected the claim but admitted the situation was “critical”.Wagner mercenaries have been leading efforts to take the eastern city and previously claimed to have seized it.Bakhmut is of little strategic importance to Russia, which has been trying to capture it for months.Ukraine, for its part, has also decided to make a stand in a battle which has become the longest and bloodiest of the war so far.Prigozhin — a close...
May 20, 2023

Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Wagner claim over Bakhmut

Tourists visiting the Parthenon in the Acropolis of Athens. — courtesy Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images
Greece recovers hundreds of stolen artefacts
ATHENS — Greece has been spearheading efforts to force museums and private collections to return stolen artefactsGreece says it has recovered hundreds of looted artefacts, including a 2nd-Century bronze statue of Alexander the Great.The trove was recovered after a legal battle with the company of a British antiquities dealer, officials said.Robin Symes had amassed thousands of pieces as part of a network of illegal traders.For years, Greece has been fighting to recover looted artefacts from museums and private collections world-wide.The announcement that 351 objects from Symes’s collection were being repatriated after a 17-year legal battle was made by Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Friday.Mendoni did not say if the artefacts were linked to the discovery by Italian and Swiss...
May 20, 2023

Greece recovers hundreds of stolen artefacts

Man scales BBC headquarters wall and hammers at statue.
Man climbs BBC headquarters scaffolding and hammers at statue
LONDON — A man has climbed scaffolding at the front of the BBC’s headquarters in London and hit a controversial statue with a hammer in an apparent protest.There have been calls for Eric Gill’s Prospero and Ariel statue to be removed because the sculptor recorded sexually abusing his daughters in his diaries.It is the second time the 1930s work at Broadcasting House has been targeted.A protester took a hammer to it last year and damage from that incident is still being repaired.The Metropolitan Police said it was called at 04:15 BST on Saturday to reports of a man who had climbed scaffolding and who was damaging a sculpture.A spokesman added: “It has not been possible to safely detain the man given the circumstances of the incident, including the height.“Specialist officers have...
May 20, 2023

Man climbs BBC headquarters scaffolding and hammers at statue

In this Feb. 22, 2006 file photo, a Basque policeman looks over the damage after a bomb exploded outside a cannery in an industrial area of Bilbao, northern Spain.
Spanish elections reopen deep wounds, as ETA terrorists run for political office
MADRID — The explosion lasted for just a few seconds.It was March 1978, and workers at the Lémoniz nuclear power plant in the Basque Country, northern Spain, were finishing their shift when the blast happened.Minutes before, they had received a call from José Antonio Torre Altonaga, an electrician at the nuclear power plant.He said he was no longer a regular worker and identified as a military spokesman for ETA, the terrorist group seeking an independent Basque Country.Shortly afterward, ETA detonated a bomb, placed in one of the reactors, killing two young workers and injuring 14 others.Torre Altonaga played a key role in the attack. He helped the terrorists access the building and showed them how to reach the generator.The former terrorist, who served 20 years in prison, is now...
May 19, 2023

Spanish elections reopen deep wounds, as ETA terrorists run for political office

Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region
Drones intercepted over Kyiv, heavy fighting in Bakhmut
KYIV — Russian forces attacked Kyiv, and other Ukrainian cities, again at dawn on Friday.Ukraine's army said it intercepted all the explosive drones targeting the capital, a success for the city's air defense systems."The tenth air attack in 19 days in May!" wrote the Kyiv city military administration on Telegram, reporting "several waves" of explosive drones overnight. "All detected aerial targets moving towards Kyiv were destroyed," it said.Other attacks targeted the cities of Lviv and Rivne in the west of the country and Kherson and Kryvyi Rih in the south. A series of overnight missile strikes in the southern port city of Odesa killed at least one civilian and injured two others, according to the Ukrainian military's southern command.The...
May 19, 2023

Drones intercepted over Kyiv, heavy fighting in Bakhmut

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