European powers and the United States are moving ahead with a plan to censure Iran for its poor cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at this week’s board meeting, despite an offer by Tehran to cap its highly enriched uranium stock, diplomats told AFP.Tensions between Iran and Western powers have repeatedly flared since a 2015 …
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An Afghan teacher and a jailed lawyer from Tajikistan on Tuesday won the Martin Ennals Award, one of the world’s most prestigious rights prizes, with the jury hailing their “exceptional courage”.Zholia Parsi, a teacher from Kabul who began protesting for women’s rights after the Taliban returned to power three years ago, shared the prize with …
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was under growing pressure Tuesday to step aside as the top candidate of his Social Democrats (SPD) for snap polls in February, as the party heads for a historic drubbing.Senior members of the SPD joined the chorus of voices calling for him to make way for popular Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, …
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The first time G20 leaders took their photo together at a summit in Rio they forgot Joe Biden. On Tuesday they had a reshoot — with the outgoing US president firmly back in the frame.Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni all missed the photo on Monday due to what …
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Gisele Pelicot, the French woman drugged by her ex-husband so she could be raped and sexually abused by him and dozens of strangers, said on Tuesday that it was time for a “macho” society to change its attitude on rape.”It’s time that the macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape changes,” said Gisele Pelicot in her …
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Brazilian police arrested four senior army officers on Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate then President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a 2022 “coup.”The four “were arrested in Rio, where they were participating in the security operation for the G20 leaders’ meeting,” a federal police source told AFP, adding that a police officer …
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused $71 billion in environmental damage and led to a surge in greenhouse gas emissions, the Ukrainian government told the COP29 summit in Baku.”Nature during this war is like a silent victim,” said Svitlana Grynchuk, Ukraine’s minister of environmental protection and natural resources.The climate impact, especially through destruction of forests …
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Two telecommunications cables cut in the Baltic Sea in 48 hours prompted European officials to say Tuesday that they suspect “sabotage” and “hybrid warfare” linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The four countries affected by the cuts — Finland, Germany, Lithuania and Sweden — have all launched investigations, with Berlin and Swedish police saying they suspected …
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The daughter of the French man standing trial for enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife on Tuesday clashed with her father at his trial, shouting in the courtroom that he would “die in lies”. Since early September, Dominique Pelicot has been in the dock along with 49 other men for organising the rapes …
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Police and civilian self-defense groups killed 28 gang members in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in an overnight operation, authorities said Tuesday, as the government seeks to regain some control of the city.Officers stopped a truck carrying gang members in the wealthy suburb of Petion-Ville at about 2:00 am, while a bus ferrying gang members was …
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