KYIV (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had caused a dire human rights situation and led to a wide range of rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and torture, that could amount to war crimes. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in …
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(Reuters) – The chairman of Russia’s Oscars nomination commission has resigned, a state-run news outlet reported on Tuesday, after the country decided not to submit a film to the Academy Awards for 2022. In a scathing letter partially published by TASS news agency, Pavel Chukhrai, whose film “The Thief” was nominated for an Oscar in …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Refugees arriving from Ukraine have helped drive Germany’s population to its highest level, the Federal Statistical Office said, with more than 84 million people now living in the European Union’s most populous country. Germany has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates and by some measures its most aged population, but its …
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By Allison Lampert and Tim Hepher MONTREAL/PARIS (Reuters) – A United Nations body has begun global talks to hammer out a consensus on reducing airline emissions in the face of lingering discord over climate change and the impact of war in Ukraine. The 193-nation International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) assembly, held every three years, is …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government will temporarily reinstate controls on the border with Slovakia on Thursday to respond to a rise in illegal migration, Czech government officials said on Monday. Illegal migration – mostly from Syria – rose by 1,200% this year, Interior Minister Vit Rakusan told news conference. “What we are going through …
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BATAYSK, Russia (Reuters) – The sound of old Soviet war songs mixed with the sobbing of relatives in the small Russian town of Bataysk as freshly mobilised reservists in Russia’s southern Rostov region said goodbye to their families on Monday. Recruits were summoned as part of the partial mobilisation announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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BATAYSK, Russia (Reuters) – The sound of old Soviet war songs mixed with the sobbing of relatives in the small Russian town of Bataysk as freshly mobilised reservists in Russia’s southern Rostov region said goodbye to their families on Monday. Recruits were summoned as part of the partial mobilisation announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran faced more international criticism on Monday over the death of a woman in police custody which triggered nationwide protests, after Tehran accused the United States of using the unrest to try to destabilise the country. Iran has cracked down on the biggest demonstrations since 2019 sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish …
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(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden, 39, fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 that revealed vast domestic …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the military situation in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Monday as difficult and said it was the country’s “No. 1 goal” because it was also Russia’s No. 1 goal. “The situation in the Donetsk region is particularly severe,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. “We are doing everything …
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