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Kosovo Serbs wave Serbian flags during a protest in the Serb-majority municipality of North Mitrovica, on Sunday. — courtesy photo Armend Nimani / AFP
Kosovo Serbs gather in latest protest after quitting institutions
PRISTINA — Hundreds of ethnic Serbs rallied in Kosovo on Sunday as a dispute over vehicle license plates heightened ongoing tensions between Belgrade and Pristina.The government’s decision to gradually ban Serbia-issued license plates has angered Kosovo Serbs, most of whom live in the north of the country and do not recognize Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence.The Kosovo PM Albin Kurti’s demand that the police begin to issue warnings to those who continued to use Belgrade-issued license plates led members of the ethnic Serb minority to leave their government jobs on Saturday in a protest over the directive.During Sunday’s protest in the northern Kosovo Serb-majority municipality of North Mitrovica, Serb political leaders said the police officers, judges and other public...
November 07, 2022

Kosovo Serbs gather in latest protest after quitting institutions

Russian forces are stepping up their strikes in Donetsk. — courtesy photo
Russian forces pound Donetsk with ‘greatest brutality’, Ukrainian authorities say
KIEV/MOSCOW — Russian forces are stepping up their strikes in Donetsk, worsening the already tough conditions for residents following Moscow’s illegal annexation and declaration of martial law in the eastern province, Ukrainian authorities said.The attacks have almost completely destroyed the power plants that serve the city of Bakhmut and the nearby town of Soledar, the region’s Ukrainian governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.The shelling killed one civilian and wounded three, he reported late Saturday. “The destruction is daily, if not hourly,” Kyrylenko said in a state television interview.In Bakhmut, some 15,000 remaining residents have been living under daily shelling and without water or power, according to local media.The city had been under attack for months, but the bombardment...
November 06, 2022

Russian forces pound Donetsk with ‘greatest brutality’, Ukrainian authorities say

Long line of cars are seen at the border check point in Kosovo amid license plate spat.
Serb MPs and police resign en masse in Kosovo amid license plate spat
PRISTINA — Members of Kosovo’s ethnic Serb minority resigned from their posts on Saturday in protest over the dismissal of a police officer who did not follow a government ruling on vehicle license plates.The walkouts followed the dismissal of a senior Serb police officer in northern Kosovo after he refused to change his vehicle’s license plates to ones issued by Kosovo as required by a rule change.Pristina’s decision has ignited contentious issues around Kosovo’s sovereignty, especially among its Serb minority, who mainly live in the north.Many of Kosovo’s Serb minority wants the former Serb province to be part of Serbia, not independent. They do not recognize the authority of Pristina, the Kosovar capital and center of power.Serbia itself has never recognized the independence...
November 06, 2022

Serb MPs and police resign en masse in Kosovo amid license plate spat

Migrants on the Humanity 1 at Catania on the island of Sicily. — courtesy photo
Dozens of migrants stopped from disembarking in Sicily by Italy’s new government
ROME — Italian authorities have prevented 35 migrants they did not deem as “vulnerable” from getting off a boat in Sicily on Sunday.Since coming to power, Italy’s far-right-led government has taken a hard line against privately run maritime rescue ships operating in Italian waters.Humanitarian groups and two Italian lawmakers who traveled to Sicily protested the selection process as both illegal and inhumane.The procedure was part of a directive ushered in by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi as Italy again targets the non-governmental organizations it has long accused of encouraging people trafficking in the central Mediterranean Sea.“Free all the people, free them,’’ Italian lawmaker Aboubakar Soumahoro said in an emotional appeal directed at Premier Giorgia Meloni from...
November 06, 2022

Dozens of migrants stopped from disembarking in Sicily by Italy’s new government

File photo of a migrant being rescued. — courtesy file Max Cavallari / SOS Humanity
Italy silent as ships with 1,000 rescued migrants seek help
ROME — Humanitarian groups caring for nearly 1,000 rescued migrants on three ships in the central Mediterranean are sounding an alarm about deteriorating conditions, but Italy’s new far-right-led government has not responded to requests for a safe port as it hardens its position against rescue boats.The country’s new interior minister, Matteo Piantedosi, has set the groundwork to ban humanitarian ships from Italian ports while appealing to countries whose flags the rescue ships fly to relieve the burden on Italy by accepting the rescued passengers.The moves are reminiscent of the anti-NGO posture taken by League party leader Matteo Salvini, now the deputy premier, who prevented humanitarian ships from accessing Italy’s ports when he was interior minister from 2018-19.So far, Italy,...
November 05, 2022

Italy silent as ships with 1,000 rescued migrants seek help

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin seen in this file photo.
Finland Prime Minister Marin cleared of wrongdoing over summer ‘partygate’ videos
HELSINKI — Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has been officially cleared of breaching any ministerial rules for partying with friends in August, a weekend immortalized in leaked videos that went viral on social media.In a new report, Finland’s Chancellor of Justice Tuomas Pöysti said he had “no reason to suspect the prime minister of illegal conduct in the minister’s official position or neglect of duty”.Pöysti, the Finnish equivalent of an attorney-general, carried out an investigation into Marin’s social life after receiving several complaints that accused her of taking time off without arranging a deputy to cover for her, and being unable to fulfill the responsibilities of her job.However, the Pöysti found that the complaints couldn’t be upheld because they did not...
November 05, 2022

Finland Prime Minister Marin cleared of wrongdoing over summer ‘partygate’ videos

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a cafe in Kostroma, Russia, Saturday. — courtesy Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service
Drunken man shoots ‘flare gun’ in Russian bar, sparking blaze that kills 15
MOSCOW — A “drunk man” fired a “flare gun” in a bar in Russia, sparking a blaze that killed 15 people, injured 5 and triggered the evacuation of hundreds, according to local authorities.The fire broke out in the city of Kostroma in the early hours of Saturday morning, after a man reportedly shot a distress flare at the dance floor in the ‘Poligon’ bar.Russian state-owned news agency Tass reported, “the fire was likely started by a drunken man who fired a distress flare at the dance floor.”“He was at the bar with a woman, to whom he offered flowers with a distress flare in his hands”.“He went to the dance floor and shot,” it added, citing the emergency services. Police said they arrested the suspected perpetrator on Saturday.Rescuers evacuated 250 people from the...
November 05, 2022

Drunken man shoots ‘flare gun’ in Russian bar, sparking blaze that kills 15

Top diplomats from the G7 — which brings together France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada, the US, Japan, and the EU — met at Münster in Germany to pledge support to help Kiev.
Putin endorses Kherson ‘evacuations’, Kiev condemns ‘forced displacement’
MOSCOW/KIEV — Vladimir Putin on Friday publicly endorsed the evacuation of civilians from parts of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region — his first acknowledgement of a deteriorating situation in a region he claims to have annexed.“Those who live in Kherson should be removed from the zone of the most dangerous actions, because the civilian population should not suffer,” Putin told pro-Kremlin activists as he marked Russia’s Day of National Unity.Moscow has already been ferrying people out of an area it controls in Kherson on the west bank of the Dinpro River, and this week announced that the evacuation zone would also include a 15-kilometer buffer area on the east bank.Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday that more than 5,000 civilians had been leaving their homes every day...
November 05, 2022

Putin endorses Kherson ‘evacuations’, Kiev condemns ‘forced displacement’

Visitors wearing military camouflage at the entrance of the ‘PMC Wagner Centre’, the private military group’s HQ, during the official opening, St Petersburg, Friday. — courtesy Olga Maltseva / AFP
Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group opens first official HQ in St Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG — The Russian paramilitary group Wagner opened its first headquarters in St Petersburg, Russia, on Friday, an AFP reporter noted.Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recently confirmed that he founded the highly secretive group and has been deployed in Latin America, Africa and Ukraine, announced the opening of the office on National Unity Day in a statement on his company’s Concord website.The glass-fronted, multi-story building, topped with a large white sign reading “Wagner”, opened on Friday.Individuals in camouflage gear wandered through the building’s grey corridors, looking at an exhibit featuring drones.“The mission of the PMC Wagner Centre is to provide a comfortable environment for generating new ideas to improve Russia’s defense capability,” Prigozhin said in...
November 05, 2022

Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group opens first official HQ in St Petersburg

File photo shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban signing a document during their meeting in Budapest, Hungary, on Nov. 7, 2019.
Despite diplomacy, Hungary & Turkey still blocking Sweden and Finland from NATO
BRUSSELS — In the corridors of power in Stockholm and Helsinki, the celebrations are on ice.After four months, 28 out of 30 NATO states have ratified the treaty changes in their national parliaments that would approve membership for Finland and Sweden, with most having already deposited the required paperwork in Washington DC.But despite a flurry of recent diplomatic activity, there are two reasons why Nordics aren’t celebrating quite yet: Hungary and Turkey.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was in Istanbul for talks this week and moved the needle slightly, urging the Turks to let Sweden and Finland in.“It is time to welcome them as full members of our Alliance,” the Norwegian former prime minister tweeted, after meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.Experts...
November 05, 2022

Despite diplomacy, Hungary & Turkey still blocking Sweden and Finland from NATO

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