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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
UK government orders extradition of WikiLeaks' founder to US
LONDON — The UK government has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. He has 14 days to appeal.Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order on Friday, and it follows a British court ruling in April that Assange could be sent to the US.The Home Office said in a statement that “the UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange.”“Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the US he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health.”The decision is a big moment in Assange’s years-long battle to avoid facing...
June 17, 2022

UK government orders extradition of WikiLeaks' founder to US

Ursula von der Leyen
Brussels backs Ukraine and Moldova as candidates for EU membership
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has backed Ukraine and Moldova to become candidates for EU membership.But leaders of EU countries will then have the final say at a summit in Brussels on 23-24 June.The announcement was welcomed by both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu.European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in the case of Ukraine that "we all know that Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective, we want them to live with us, the EU".She praised the country's pre-war reforms to tackle corruption, curb the influence of oligarchs and strengthen the rights of minorities although she noted that "we want to see results on the ground".She also flagged that the country enjoys a "very robust...
June 17, 2022

Brussels backs Ukraine and Moldova as candidates for EU membership

Sergei Lavrov speaks exclusively to the BBC about the war in Ukraine.
Lavrov: Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed
MOSCOW — Since the Russian army attacked Ukraine nearly four months ago, thousands of civilians have been killed and whole towns reduced to rubble, while millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes.But on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looked BBC in the eye and said things were not as they seemed."We didn't invade Ukraine," he claimed."We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act."Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Lavrov has given only a few interviews to Western media.He repeated the official Kremlin line that there were Nazis in Ukraine. Russian officials often claim that their military is "de-Nazifying" the...
June 17, 2022

Lavrov: Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed

A small child, displaced from an orphanage in the Kharkiv region, walks in the hall of a shelter located in a sanatorium in Vorokhta, western Ukraine.
UN’s Bachelet concerned over Ukraine orphans ‘deported’ to Russia for adoption
GENEVA — The UN’s top rights official expressed her concern on Wednesday at reports that Ukrainian children have been “forcibly deported” from the country’s embattled eastern regions, and taken to Russia for adoption.Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council that her Office, OHCHR, has been looking into the allegations that youngsters have been taken from orphanages in Donbas, where Russia has steadily gained ground amidst intense fighting in recent weeks.“OHCHR cannot yet confirm these allegations or the number of children who could be in such a situation,” Bachelet said. “We are concerned about the alleged plans of the Russian authorities to allow the movement of children from Ukraine to families in the Russian Federation, which do not appear to include steps for...
June 16, 2022

UN’s Bachelet concerned over Ukraine orphans ‘deported’ to Russia for adoption

Central Asian migrants in Russia, whose families depend on remittances.
Sanctions on Russia already hitting remittance-dependent countries in Central Asia: IOM
GENEVA — As the UN marks the International Day of Family Remittances on Thursday, there is concern that economic contraction and job losses in Russia — likely to now rise further as a result of sanctions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine — are already having an impact on remittance-dependent communities in Central Asia, according to experts with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).The countries of Central Asia retain their Soviet-era socio-economic and political ties with the Russian Federation. Migration, and in particular remittances, is at the center of this intricate, historical relationship, say Hyo Jeong Jung, IOM Labor Migration Specialist based in Kyrgyzstan, and Michael Newson, Senior Regional Labour Mobility and Social Inclusion Specialist, based at IOM...
June 16, 2022

Sanctions on Russia already hitting remittance-dependent countries in Central Asia: IOM

Smoke rises above the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk which is now believed to be mostly under Russian control.
Ukraine war: Thousands of civilians trapped in Severodonetsk
KYIV — Thousands of civilians are trapped in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk with essential supplies running out, the United Nations is warning.Many of them are sheltering in bunkers beneath the city's Azot chemical plant.The last bridge leading out of the city was destroyed in fighting earlier this week - effectively trapping its 12,000 remaining residents inside.For weeks capturing Severodonetsk has been a top military goal for Russia, which now controls most of the city."The lack of water and sanitation is a big worry. It's a huge concern for us because people cannot survive for long without water," spokesperson for the UN's Humanitarian Affairs office Saviano Abreu told the BBC.Abreu added that food supplies and health provisions were also running out in...
June 16, 2022

Ukraine war: Thousands of civilians trapped in Severodonetsk

European Commissioner for Inter-institutional Relations and Foresight Maros Sefcovic.
EU refuses to rule out suspending Brexit trade deal
BRUSSELS — The European Commission won't rule out suspending the EU-UK trade deal if the UK approves a draft bill that unilaterally overrides parts of the Brexit agreement."We will be very firm and calm but at the same time proportionate in our response," Maroš Šefčovič, the Commission's vice-president and leading Brexit negotiator, told Euronews."Our next steps will be gradual because we still want to keep the doors for negotiation open."Earlier on Wednesday, Šefčovič announced the Commission would relaunch legal action against the UK.Asked if Brussels would go as far as to suspend the EU-UK trade deal, which has been in place since January 2021, the vice-president told Euronews that "if this bill is approved as it is, I cannot...
June 16, 2022

EU refuses to rule out suspending Brexit trade deal


This 2003 electron microscope image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right. — courtesy Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC
Europe at 'epicenter' of monkeypox outbreak, WHO says
GENEVA — Europe remains at the "epicenter" of a global monkeypox outbreak, the World Health Organization's European regional office said on Wednesday.There are 25 countries in the region that have reported more than 1,500 cases —85% of the global total, they said."The magnitude of this outbreak poses a real risk; the longer the virus circulates, the more it will extend its reach, and the stronger the disease’s foothold will get in non-endemic countries," said the regional director for Europe Hans Kluge.He urged patients with suspected or confirmed cases to be isolated until their symptoms are resolved.The majority of patients with monkeypox have been among men who have sex with men with many patients — though not all of them — reporting multiple sexual...
June 16, 2022

Europe at 'epicenter' of monkeypox outbreak, WHO says

The UK’s second-largest union has slammed easyJet flight cancelations.
Leaked union email says easyJet staff face ‘serious safety risk’
LONDON — The UK’s second-largest union has slammed easyJet flight cancelations in a scathing email obtained by Euronews.In a letter to easyJet’s leadership team, Unite — which represents 60,000 aviation workers — demanded to know why the carrier was being forced to cancel dozens of flights per day and hadn’t proactively reduced its schedule in advance.The union also accused the company’s embattled Chief Operating Officer (COO) Peter Bellew of only communicating with staff twice in almost three months, despite widespread chaos.“This level of disruption and deterioration of the operation cannot continue," the email reads. "It is a serious safety risk to crew members and is having a disastrous effect on the easyJet brand.“We feel there is a lack of leadership from...
June 16, 2022

Leaked union email says easyJet staff face ‘serious safety risk’

Roman Ratushny was killed in a battle near Izyum in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. — courtesy Facebook
Tributes pour in for activist Roman Ratushny killed in Ukraine war
KIEV — Roman Ratushny, 24, died in a battle near Izyum, around 90 kilometers from Sievierodonetsk, where Russian and Ukrainian troops are fighting for control of the city.The civic and environmental activist's death was confirmed by the NGO he headed, Let's Save Protasiv Yar."Romchyk was our best, a courageous man who was always first in any battle and never showed fear," the NGO said in a statement."In his last battle, he was on reconnaissance patrol as part of a combat group and died while performing a combat mission."The NGO said as a 15-year-old he took part in the protests that led to a revolution in 2014 and the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.He headed up the Let's Save Protasiv Yar organisation, which campaigned to...
June 15, 2022

Tributes pour in for activist Roman Ratushny killed in Ukraine war

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