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Democratic Party leader Enrico Letta arrives at the party's final rally ahead of Sunday's election in Rome on Friday. — courtesy photo
Final rallies held as Italian election campaign comes to a close
ROME — Italian parties held their final rallies on Friday ahead of a snap general election on Sunday that is expected to be won by the Giorgia Meloni-led right-wing bloc.A trio of center-left, populist and centrist groups held their closing meetings in different squares across Rome, underscoring their failure to forge a united electoral pact — a decision that has enormously benefited the conservative coalition.Friday was the last day in which political candidates could make their final push to harness votes, as Saturday marks the beginning of a period of electoral silence.At the Democratic Party rally in Rome’s colossal Piazza del Popolo, leader Enrico Letta delivered a speech shortly after an orchestra played Bella Ciao — Italy’s World War II resistance anthem that is reviled by...
September 24, 2022

Final rallies held as Italian election campaign comes to a close

Buses and cars queue to cross the border from Russia to Finland at the Vaalimaa border check point in Virolahti, Finland, Friday. — courtesy photo
Finland moves to block more Russians on eastern border
HELSINKI — Finland is going to "significantly" restrict the entry of Russian citizens to its territory by refusing access to those with tourist visas from any European country in the Schengen area.The Nordic nation, which has seen an increase in Russians entering its land border since Moscow announced the mobilization of reservists for the war in Ukraine, is aligning itself with the decision taken at the beginning of September by Poland and the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), the four other European Union countries bordering Russia.Finland has the EU's longest border with Russia at over 1,300km."After the government's decision, it can come into force very quickly," Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said at a Friday press...
September 24, 2022

Finland moves to block more Russians on eastern border

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in this file photo.
Putin not bluffing about nuclear weapons, EU says
BRUSSELS — The EU must take Vladimir Putin’s threats he could use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine seriously, the bloc’s foreign policy chief has said.Josep Borrell told the BBC’s Lyse Doucet that the war had reached a “dangerous moment”. His remarks come as Russia begins a partial mobilization and moves to annex four regions of Ukraine.Putin has faced setbacks on the battlefield, with his forces pushed back by a Ukrainian counter-offensive.“Certainly it’s a dangerous moment because the Russian army has been pushed into a corner, and Putin’s reaction — threatening using nuclear arms — it’s very bad,” Borrell said.Seven months since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, analysts agree that President Putin’s forces are on the back foot, but he said a...
September 24, 2022

Putin not bluffing about nuclear weapons, EU says

A woman collects wood for heating from a destroyed school where Russian forces were based in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine
Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, say UN investigators
GENEVA — A group of United Nations experts investigating human rights violations committed in Ukraine in the seven months since Russia invaded said on Friday they had turned up evidence of war crimes.The experts from the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, mandated by the Human Rights Council earlier this year, have so far focused on four regions – Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Sumy.The Commission visited 27 towns and spoke with 150 victims and witnesses as part of their initial investigation, inspecting graves and place of detention and torture.Victims described beatings, electric shocks, and forced nudity in Russian detention centers, the commission said."Based on the evidence gathered by the commission, it has concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine," Erik...
September 23, 2022

Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, say UN investigators

Berlusconi with Mr Putin during a controversial visit to the annexed-Crimean peninsula in 2015.
Berlusconi defends Putin’s war in Ukraine on eve of Italian election
ROME — Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has defended Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, saying Russia's leader was "pushed" into the conflict.The 85-year-old said Russian troops were meant to replace the government with "decent people" then leave.The three-time Italian PM is a long-term ally of the Russian president.This weekend his party is expected to take power as part of a right-wing coalition in a general election in Italy.A narrative alleging the Ukrainian government was slaughtering Russian speakers in the east of the country was created by the media in Moscow, Berlusconi told Italian TV.He said the reporting, pushed by separatist forces and nationalist politicians in the Russian government, had left Putin with no choice but to launch a limited...
September 23, 2022

Berlusconi defends Putin’s war in Ukraine on eve of Italian election

Russian soldiers have been accused of torturing civilians while in detention
Russia reveals exemptions as men flee call-up
MOSCOW — Russia's defense ministry has revealed a host of occupations it says will be exempted from conscription aimed at boosting its war effort in Ukraine.IT workers, bankers and journalists working for state media will escape the "partial mobilization" announced by President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.Around 300,000 citizens face being called up as part of the drive.The move has prompted a rush toward borders as young men attempt to flee to evade the draft.Announcing the exemptions on Friday, Russia defense ministry said employers must compile a list of workers who meet the criteria and submit it to its offices.But it accepted some sectors had to be excluded to "ensure the work of specific high-tech industries, as well as Russia's financial system".Some...
September 23, 2022

Russia reveals exemptions as men flee call-up

A serviceman guards the polling station prior to a referendum in Donetsk
Occupied Ukraine regions start voting in 'sham referenda'
KYIV — Four occupied regions in Ukraine are set to start voting Friday in Kremlin-engineered referendums on whether to become part of Russia, setting the stage for Moscow to annex the areas in a sharp escalation of the nearly seven-month war.Ukraine and its Western allies have rejected the votes as illegitimate and neither free nor fair, saying they will have no binding force.German chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden both branded the votes as "sham referenda" this week, while French President Emmanuel Macron said they would have “no legal consequences,” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called them “noise” to distract the public.Authorities in the separatist Luhansk and Donetsk regions that make up Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland known...
September 23, 2022

Occupied Ukraine regions start voting in 'sham referenda'

The photo appears to show large queues of vehicles at the Russia-Georgia border
Russians flee to border after military call-up
MOSCOW — Queues have sprung up along Russia's border as men attempt to leave the country amid a military call-up for the war in Ukraine.President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization on Wednesday, which could see 300,000 people summoned to serve in the war.The Kremlin says reports of fighting-age men fleeing are exaggerated.But on the border with Georgia, miles-long queues of vehicles have formed including men trying to escape the war.One man, who did not want to be named, told the BBC's Rayhan Demytrie he had grabbed his passport and headed to the border, without packing anything else, immediately after President' Putin's announcement - because he fell into the group that could potentially be sent to the war.Some witnesses estimated the queue of cars...
September 22, 2022

Russians flee to border after military call-up

Ukrainian soldiers, who were released in a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, smile close to Chernihiv, 21 September 2022
Azovstal fighters and foreign prisoners freed in high-profile exchange deals
KYIV — Moscow swapped high-profile commanders of Mariupol's Azov Regiment in return for a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the largest prisoner exchange since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in late February.The deal that saw a total of 215 Ukrainians released included 188 defenders famously holed up for months in the key southern port's Azovstal steel mill after Russian forces besieged the city.Out of the 108 members of the Azov Regiment that were exchanged on Wednesday, five military commanders were transferred to Turkey, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.They will stay in this country "in absolute safety and in comfortable conditions until the end of the war" as part of an agreement brokered by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...
September 22, 2022

Azovstal fighters and foreign prisoners freed in high-profile exchange deals

Volodymyr Zelensky addressing the UN General Assembly in a pre-recorded video.
Ukraine war: Zelensky calls for a special tribunal to punish Russia for its invasion
NEW YORK — A special tribunal should be created to punish Russia for its aggression in Ukraine, the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN General Assembly.Zelensky, speaking in a pre-recorded video, also called for Moscow to have its power of veto removed at the UN Security Council."Ukraine demands punishment for trying to steal our territory," said Zelensky. "Punishment for the murders of thousands of people. Punishment for tortures and humiliations of women and men."A special tribunal should be created to punish Russia for the crime of aggression against our state. This will become a signal to all 'would-be' aggressors, that they must value peace or be brought to responsibility by the world."His speech comes after his Russian...
September 22, 2022

Ukraine war: Zelensky calls for a special tribunal to punish Russia for its invasion

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