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The National Day of Catalonia is celebrated in Barcelona, Spain. — courtesy (file)Unsplash/Külli Kittus
Former Catalan Parliament leaders’ political rights violated, say UN experts
GENEVA — By suspending former Catalan government and parliament members from public duties prior to them being convicted, following the independence referendum back in 2017, Spain violated their political rights, the UN Human Rights Committee said in a statement published on Wednesday.The findings by the group of independent human rights experts were published after revision of a complaint filed by Oriol Junqueras i Vies, former vice-president of Catalonia, and three former ministers, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Josep Rull i Andreu and Jordi Turull i Negre.The four former Catalan separatist leaders were suspended from public duties prior to their convictions over the region’s 2017 bid for independence, and prosecuted for the crime of rebellion.Catalonia’s independence The Parliament of...
August 31, 2022

Former Catalan Parliament leaders’ political rights violated, say UN experts

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in this file photo.
Europe reacts to the death of Soviet Union's last leader
MOSCOW — Tributes have been paid from across Europe to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91.In a condolence telegram sent on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Gorbachev had a "huge impact on the course of world history."Putin said the USSR's last leader "deeply understood that reforms were necessary" and strove to offer his own solutions to the problems it faced in the 1980s.Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in communist-controlled East Germany, said Gorbachev had completely changed her life and the world."He showed by example how a single statesman can change the world for the better," she wrote in a statement. "Gorbachev also changed my life in fundamental ways. I will never forget...
August 31, 2022

Europe reacts to the death of Soviet Union's last leader

The wreckage of a WWII German warship is seen in the Danube river
Europe's worst drought in centuries reveals WWII Nazi wrecks in Serbia
BELGRADE — The worst drought in Europe in decades in Serbia has not only affected agriculture. It has also revealed almost forgotten relics of World War II in the shape of German battleships emerging from the Danube.The ships, some still laden with munition, belonged to Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet that was deliberately sunk by the Germans as they retreated from Romania as Soviet forces advanced.The unusually hot weather across Europe this summer -- which scientists have linked to global warming -- and other factors have affected the Danube, Europe's second-longest river that flows through 10 nations. Authorities in Serbia have used dredging to keep vessels moving.Historians say up to 200 German warships were scuttled in September 1944 near Prahovo in the Danube gorge known as...
August 31, 2022

Europe's worst drought in centuries reveals WWII Nazi wrecks in Serbia

Gazprom said the restrictions on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would last for the next three days.
Russia shuts major gas pipeline to Europe
MOSCOW — Russia has completely halted gas supplies to Europe via a major pipeline, saying repairs are needed.The Russian state-owned energy giant, Gazprom, said the restrictions on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would last for the next three days.Russia has already significantly reduced gas exports via the pipeline.It also rejects accusations of using energy supplies as a way to punish Western nations for imposing sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.The Nord Stream 1 pipeline stretches 1,200km (745 miles) under the Baltic Sea from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany.It opened in 2011, and can send a maximum of 170m cubic meters of gas per day from Russia to Germany.The pipeline was shut down for 10 days in July - again for repairs, according to Russia - and has...
August 31, 2022

Russia shuts major gas pipeline to Europe

Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, at a public meeting in Geneva. (2005)
UN chief hails ‘one of a kind statesman who changed the course of history’
NEW YORK — The Secretary-General has paid warm tribute to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose death aged 91 was announced on Tuesday, describing him as the person who “more than any other” brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War, which had dominated international relations since the 1940s.António Guterres said he was deeply saddened to hear the news of his passing in Moscow, announced by Russian State news agencies, which reported that he had died after a “long and grave illness.”Guterres extended his heartfelt condolences to the whole Gorbachev family, and to the people and Government of the Russian Federation.‘Towering global leader’“The world has lost a towering global leader, committed multilateralist, and tireless advocate for...
August 31, 2022

UN chief hails ‘one of a kind statesman who changed the course of history’

Protests in 1991. The coup that year signalled the end of Gorbachev's time in power.
Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War
LONDON — Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th Century.He presided over the dissolution of a Soviet Union that had existed for nearly 70 years and had dominated huge swathes of Asia and Eastern Europe.Yet, when he set out his program of reforms in 1985, his sole intention had been to revive his country's stagnant economy and overhaul its political processes.His efforts became the catalyst for a series of events that brought an end to communist rule, not just within the USSR, but also across its former satellite states.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the Stavropol region of southern Russia.His parents both worked on collective farms and the young Gorbachev operated combine harvesters while in his teens.By the time he...
August 31, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War

Mikhail Gorbachev
Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91.Gorbachev, who took power in 1985, opened up the then-USSR to the world and introduced a set of reforms at home.But he was unable to prevent the slow collapse of the Soviet Union, from which modern Russia emerged.Tributes have been paid worldwide, with UN chief Antonio Guterres saying he "changed the course of history"."Mikhail Gorbachev was a one-of-a kind statesman," UN Secretary-General Guterres wrote in a Twitter tribute. "The world has lost a towering global leader, committed multilateralist, and tireless advocate for peace."The hospital in Moscow where he died said he had been suffering from a long and serious illness.In recent years his...
August 31, 2022

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91

‘Break the bonds of shame’ about slavery — UN rights experts
GENEVA — Aug. 31 marks the International Day for People of African Descent, on which the UN calls for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against persons who fit this description.Ahead of the Day, UN News spoke to Dominique Day, and Verene Shepherd, two experts on the subject, who want to raise awareness about the links between the TransAtlantic Slave Trade and the global economy.Dominique Day is a human rights lawyer, and the chairperson of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. Verene Shepherd is a social historian, and the chairperson of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).The rights experts sat down with UN News, to talk about their experiences of racism, and why there needs to be a wider acceptance that today’s...
August 30, 2022

‘Break the bonds of shame’ about slavery — UN rights experts

Ursula von der Leyen said her team was working on an emergency intervention of the electricity market.
Energy crisis: Ursula von der Leyen calls for 'emergency intervention' in electricity market
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — The worsening energy crisis besieging Europe has laid bare the "limitations" of the electricity market and requires an "emergency intervention" to bring down soaring prices, Ursula von der Leyen has said."The skyrocketing electricity prices are now exposing, for different reasons, the limitations of our current electricity market design," the European Commission president said on Monday, while addressing the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia."[The market] was developed under completely different circumstances and for completely different purposes. It is no longer fit for purpose."That is why we, the Commission, are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market. We need a new market...
August 30, 2022

Energy crisis: Ursula von der Leyen calls for 'emergency intervention' in electricity market

Chinese soldiers arrive to participate in war games drills in Grodekovo, Russia.
Russia to hold war games with China amid tensions over Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russia said it would launch sweeping military drills in the country’s east together with forces from China — a show of increasingly close defense ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West.Yet the war games poised to take place between 1 and 7 September will be on a far smaller scale than when they were last held in 2018, reflecting the strain on Moscow's forces as they struggle to make headway on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine.Announcing the "Vostok 2022" war games, which will see the participation of 12 other countries, the Russian defense ministry said last month that its capacity to stage such exercises was in no way affected by its aggression in Ukraine.But the 50,000 personnel that Moscow said on Monday will take part are a fraction...
August 30, 2022

Russia to hold war games with China amid tensions over Ukraine

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