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The trial, the biggest in modern French history, began last September
Salah Abdeslam sentenced to life in prison as Paris attacks trial winds up
PARIS — The only surviving attacker from the group that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks has been found guilty of terrorism and murder charges.Salah Abdeslam received a rare full-life sentence for his role in the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people.The court also convicted 19 other men involved, six of whom are believed to be dead.The trial - the biggest in modern French history - began last September.For more than nine months, victims, journalists, and the families of the dead lined up outside the specially-built courtroom in Paris to piece together the story of the worst attack in France since World War Two.The attacks across bars, restaurants, the national football stadium and Bataclan music venue on 13 November 2015 saw hundreds injured alongside those killed.At...
June 30, 2022

Salah Abdeslam sentenced to life in prison as Paris attacks trial winds up

Protestors at the March of Peace and Independence in Minsk, Belarus (file photo).
Belarus ‘engulfed in fear’, Human Rights Council hears
GENEVA — The deterioration of human rights in Belarus continues to engulf the country in a climate of fear and arbitrary rule, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on Wednesday.Presenting her annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Anaïs Marin, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus, pointed to Government policies that have systematically tightened legislation and restricted civil and political rights.She said it was a trend that has continued in the two years since the UN rights office, OHCHR, condemned violent crackdowns against hundreds and thousands of protesters who contested the result of presidential elections held in August 2020.“While the world’s attention is focused on many crisis situations around the world, I am...
June 30, 2022

Belarus ‘engulfed in fear’, Human Rights Council hears

Local fishermen haul in their catch of sardines on the coast of Nui Chua National Park in Viet Nam. — courtesy UNEP/Lisa Murray
A visionary ‘blue transformation’ strategy to enhance underwater food systems
LISBON — Record levels of fisheries and aquaculture production are making a critical contribution to global food security, the UN Ocean Conference under way in Lisbon, Portugal, heard on Wednesday.The Conference’s third day, spotlighting the state of the global fishing industry and the sustainability of aquaculture, featured the launch of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture flagship report.Growing demand for fish and other aquatic foods is rapidly changing the whole sector, with consumption expected to increase, driven mostly by a fast-paced increase in population, changes in post-harvest practices and distribution, as well as in dietary trends focusing on better health and nutrition.Is sustainability at sea realistic?According to...
June 29, 2022

A visionary ‘blue transformation’ strategy to enhance underwater food systems

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag
Turkey pushes Finland and Sweden on extradition after deal
ANKARA — Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Ankara wanted 12 suspects from Finland and another 21 from Sweden.Turkey says it will now be pushing for the extradition of 33 "terror" suspects from Finland and Sweden, under a deal that lifted Ankara's objections to the two Nordic states' bids to join Nato.Turkey would ask them to "fulfil their promises", the justice minister said.Ankara has accused both Finland and Sweden of hosting Kurdish militants.The Nordic states agreed late on Tuesday to "address Turkey's pending deportation or extradition requests of terror suspects expeditiously".Finland and Sweden declared their intention to join the 30-member Western defensive alliance in May, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Turkey...
June 29, 2022

Turkey pushes Finland and Sweden on extradition after deal

Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in this file photo.
EU member states strike late-night deal on climate laws
LUXEMBOURG — European Union member states reached a deal in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday on a series of measures they hope should put the bloc on track to become carbon neutral by 2050.It took environment ministers gathered in Luxembourg about 17 hours to reach compromises on five sensitive laws that form part of the bloc's Fit for 55 package that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990s levels.The measures they agreed on were regarding the EU emissions trading system, emissions and removals from land use, land-use change, and forestry, the creation of a social climate fund (SCF) and new CO2 emission performance standards for cars and vans.Among the most eye-catching measures are the addition of maritime shipping in the EU...
June 29, 2022

EU member states strike late-night deal on climate laws

IOM staff are carrying out needs assessments in Trostianets in the Sumy Region, of northern Ukraine.
Cycle of death and destruction in Ukraine must stop: UN official
NEW YORK — The “horrific conflict,” in Ukraine shows no signs of abating, the UN political and peacebuilding chief told the Security Council on Tuesday, pointing out that since her last update on 5 April, “countless Ukrainian civilians” have been killed in indiscriminate attacks, cities and towns leveled, and much of the country’s arable land “horribly disfigured by shelling”.“The cycle of death, destruction, dislocation, and disruption must stop”, underscored Rosemary DiCarlo.Amidst a new wave in recent days of missile and air strikes in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and other cities far from the frontlines, the senior UN official drew attention to the missile strike in Kremenchuk on a shopping mall, reportedly by Russia, that killed at least 18 civilians...
June 29, 2022

Cycle of death and destruction in Ukraine must stop: UN official

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out her legal road map to holding a new referendum on independence on Oct. 19, 2023.
Sturgeon lays out her plans for new Scotland independence referendum
EDINBURGH — Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out her legal road map to holding a new referendum on independence on Oct. 19, 2023.In a statement to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Sturgeon said she had written to Boris Johnson indicating she was "ready and willing" to negotiate a so-called Section 30 order with him, which gives the Scottish government temporary powers to hold a referendum. This was how the 2014 independence referendum was held.However, as Johnson has repeatedly said he would not grant a Section 30 order, Sturgeon has separately asked Scotland's senior law officer the Lord Advocate to go to the UK Supreme Court to get a ruling on whether the Scottish Parliament alone has the power to hold a legal consultative...
June 28, 2022

Sturgeon lays out her plans for new Scotland independence referendum

Say goodbye to Turkey and hello to Türkiye.
Turkey is now Türkiye
ANKARA — Say goodbye to Turkey and hello to Türkiye.The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has decided to officially change the country's name, dropping the long-standing Anglicized version that was often confused with the famous Thanksgiving animal."The word Türkiye represents and expresses the culture, civilization, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way," Erdoğan said.International organizations like the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and NATO have already adopted Türkiye (roughly pronounced as "tur-key-yay"), following a formal request from the Turkish authorities.Critics, however, say the rebrand is another populist device that Erdoğan is exploiting to divert attention away from the country's persisting economic...
June 28, 2022

Turkey is now Türkiye

10 percent of cancer cases could be caused by air pollution and other contaminants in the UK. — courtesy Canva
10% of cancer cases in Europe caused by pollution, says groundbreaking new study
LONDON — Ten percent of cancer cases in Europe are caused by air pollution, according to a new study published today.The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently reviewed the latest scientific evidence on pollution, second-hand smoke, radon, asbestos and other chemicals, as well as ultraviolet radiation (UV rays).It found that exposure to these pollutants likely contributes to nearly 2.7 million new patients diagnosed in the EU each year.It’s the first time the EEA has found links between cancer and the environment. The report, called 'Beating cancer — the role of Europe’s environment', estimates that environmental and occupational risks are behind around 10 percent of cancer cases in Europe.Causing 1.3 million deaths per year across the European Union, cancer takes a...
June 28, 2022

10% of cancer cases in Europe caused by pollution, says groundbreaking new study


NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson give a press conference prior to a NATO summit in Brussels, on Monday.
NATO: Moves to admit Finland and Sweden 'will likely drag on'
BRUSSELS — NATO's plans to add two more Nordic countries to the military alliance "will likely drag on" as Turkey puts a block on accepting Sweden and Finland as members.That's the conclusion of a new report from the International Crisis Group which found that Turkey was "unlikely to simply back down on its demands" to Stockholm and Helsinki."It is using the occasion to raise grievances it has felt for a long time, mainly with what it sees as permissive attitudes in Western capitals toward the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — the insurgent group that, along with the US and EU, it lists as terrorist," the report said.This latest downbeat assessment comes as NATO leaders are due to meet Tuesday in Madrid for a summit which was expected to see...
June 28, 2022

NATO: Moves to admit Finland and Sweden 'will likely drag on'

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