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Two people walk past a destroyed residential block in the Kyiv region (file photo). — courtesy UNOCHA/Matteo Minasi
UN condemns ‘inexcusable’ deadly airstrikes in Ukraine
GENEVA — The acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthew Hollingworth, has condemned a wave of deadly strikes that hit several Ukraine cities early on Friday, reportedly the most intense aerial bombardment in weeks.Dozens of civilians across the country were killed and injured, and homes and other vital infrastructure, destroyed.More than 20 people were killed in the small central city of Uman alone, when their apartment building collapsed after it was hit, according to international media reports.“It is just inexcusable that in places like Uman, far from the frontline, civilians were killed while sleeping at their homes. This must stop,” Hollingworth wrote on Twitter.Catherine Russell, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also took to the platform to...
April 29, 2023

UN condemns ‘inexcusable’ deadly airstrikes in Ukraine

Rescuers work to clear rubble from a collapsed building in Iman. — courtesy Ukraine State Emergency Service
Ukraine war: Crimea oil tank set ablaze by reported drone strike
KYIV — A drone strike has caused a massive fire at an oil depot in Russian-controlled Crimea, local officials say.Social-media footage showed flames billowing from the site in Sevastopol, Crimea’s main city, early on Saturday.The fire was later put out and no-one was hurt, the Moscow-appointed regional governor said.On Friday Russia launched a wave of air strikes in cities across Ukraine, killing at least 25 people. It was the first such attack in months.The Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, is home to the main naval base for Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet.“According to preliminary information, [the fire] was caused by a drone strike,” Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on the messaging app Telegram.It comes five days after Russian officials said they had fended...
April 29, 2023

Ukraine war: Crimea oil tank set ablaze by reported drone strike

Prince Harry, seen in this file photo, is ready to take the witness stand to pursue his claims over hacking.
Prince Harry prepares to take stand to pursue hacking claims
LONDON — “Any one of the thousands of people that I met or was introduced to on any given day could easily have said: ‘You know what, you’re an idiot. I’ve read all the stories about you and now I hate you and am going to stab you’,” said Prince Harry, in a witness statement for a court case that once again threatens to rewrite what we know about the Royal Family.His statement, in a pre-trial hearing this week about phone hacking, is a remarkably frank self-portrait that veers from being angry, outraged and obsessive to often apparently being in a state of flight or fight.Prince Harry believed his battles with the tabloid press put him at risk from a public that had been turned against him, depicting him, in his own words, as a “thicko”, “cheat”, “underage...
April 29, 2023

Prince Harry prepares to take stand to pursue hacking claims

The European Commission estimates the green transition will require €520 billion in additional investments on an annual basis
Only nine countries will meet the EU's climate goals, new report warns
LONDON — A report by the New Economics Foundation looks into the challenge of reconciling the European Green Deal with the bloc's fiscal rules.Only nine out of the 27 member states of the European Union will be able to have enough leeway to accommodate the investments needed to achieve the bloc's climate goals after the introduction of the reformed fiscal rules, a new report has warned.The findings, released on Friday by the New Economics Foundation, a British think tank, illustrate a long-standing conundrum of the European Green Deal: how to unleash the billions required to decarbonize the entire economy while simultaneously complying with legally-binding caps on the budget deficit and government debt.The path to finding that balance seems to be a privilege reserved for just a...
April 28, 2023

Only nine countries will meet the EU's climate goals, new report warns

Richard Sharp had been under pressure to resign after it was reported he acted as a middleman when Johnson was looking to secure a financial loan
Embattled BBC chairman resigns over loan deal for former PM Boris Johnson
LONDON — The embattled chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporaration (BBC), Richard Sharp, resigned on Friday after a report found he failed to disclose his involvement in facilitating a loan of almost $1 million to former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.Sharp claimed the breach was “inadvertent and not material,” but said he was resigning to “prioritize the interests of the BBC.” He had previously denied involvement in the arrangement, or the existence of a conflict of interest as the loan happened before his appointment as head of the public broadcaster.Adam Heppinstall’s report however found Sharp “failed to disclose potential perceived conflicts of interest” to the cross-party panel of MPs which advised ministers on who to appoint.“There may well have been a...
April 28, 2023

Embattled BBC chairman resigns over loan deal for former PM Boris Johnson

Smoke billows from a building in downtown Sarajevo after a mortar attack. Buildings near the parliament were damaged during the fierce combat. 22 April 1992
Protests erupt in Bosnia over 'discrimination' by peace envoy
SARAJEVO — Bosnians protested against constitutional changes imposed by the country's peace envoy on Friday, claiming he is discriminating against the main ethnic group.Protests were held in front of the parliament building in Sarajevo Friday in response to constitutional changes made on Thursday evening by Christian Schmidt, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Several hundred people gathered, booing and chanting loudly while holding Bosnian flags. Significant police forces were present both inside and outside the parliament, with armored vehicles guarding the perimeter.“They have tricked us several times, but this is the last time, they won’t be able to do it again,” said Refik Lendo, a member of the Party of Democratic Action or SDA.Bosnia is the only country in...
April 28, 2023

Protests erupt in Bosnia over 'discrimination' by peace envoy

Sign announcing the false passage of an oil pipeline under a public park in Grenoble, France
Environmental collective behind pipeline hoax in several French cities
PARIS — Environmental activists tricked people into believing a massive oil pipeline project was planned in several French and Belgian cities.A giant oil pipeline passing through Marseille, Lyon, Paris and Brussels?That's what thousands of expropriation letters sent to local residents, building permits in the city center and even a Twitter account of a non-existent company behind the fake project would have us believe.All these elements of the hoax were created from scratch by a group of environmental activists called "Le bruit qui court" (the rumor mill).Their aim was to denounce TotalEnergies' giant oil pipeline project in Uganda and Tanzania. Due to be completed in 2025, it will stretch for more than 1,000km, involve drilling hundreds of oil wells and impact 19,000...
April 28, 2023

Environmental collective behind pipeline hoax in several French cities

A woman, carrying a child, walks passed a damaged appartment building in Uman.
Death toll climbs after Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine
KYIV — Russia fired more than twenty cruise missiles and two drones at cities across Ukraine on Friday killing multiple people.In Uman, a city 215km south of Kyiv, two rockets hit a block of flats, killing at least 17 and wounding several others, according to Ukrainian police. Three children were pulled from the rubble alive.Meanwhile, a 31-year-old woman and her 3-year-old daughter were reportedly killed in strikes on the eastern city of Dnipro.Air raid sirens rang out around the capital in the first attack against the city in nearly two months, with Ukraine’s air force shooting down 21 out of 23 rockets and two attack drones, according to the local authorities.No strikes were immediately reported, but fragments from intercepted missiles and drones damaged power lines and a road in...
April 28, 2023

Death toll climbs after Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine

Spain's former King Juan Carlos, left, waves next to his daughter Princess Elena during a bullfight at the bullring in Aranjuez, Spain
Explosive new book claims Spain's King Juan Carlos has secret love child
MADRID — Spain's Juan Carlos is said to have had a fourth daughter from an extramarital affair. A new book claims to lift the lid on an open secret in the Spanish royal court.When Juan Carlos left Spain after a quick, but controversial, visit last week, the royal family breathed a sigh of relief that it went off without any incidents.But little did they know the next scandal for the House of Borbón was just around the corner.Despite putting several thousand kilometers between the Zarzuela Palace and his new home in self-imposed exile, Juan Carlos has managed to be at the center of attention once again.This time, one of the Spanish royal family's best kept secrets might just have been revealed.An upcoming book by two investigative journalists claims the emeritus king fathered a...
April 28, 2023

Explosive new book claims Spain's King Juan Carlos has secret love child

Oleksandr Mishchenko was a police chief in Melitopol both before and after the Russian invasion
Ukraine war: Partisan attack kills police chief in Russian-occupied Melitopol
KYIV — A police chief in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol, who defected to Russia after they seized the city, has been killed in an apparent partisan bombing.Oleksandr Mishchenko died when an improvised device exploded at the entrance to the block where he lived.There have recently been reports of heightened Ukrainian partisan activity in the region.Melitopol's exiled mayor said the dead officer was a traitor.The city is in Zaporizhzhia province, one of four regions that Russia claimed to have annexed last year following its invasion, despite only partially controlling them.After Mariupol, Melitopol is the largest city on territory occupied by Russia since February 2022.Russia's Interior Ministry said the explosion happened at 05:20 local time (02:20 GMT).It added that...
April 28, 2023

Ukraine war: Partisan attack kills police chief in Russian-occupied Melitopol

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