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Second Iran cleric dies after knifing at shrine
A suspected jihadist attack at a revered shrine in Iran has claimed the life of a second Shiite Muslim cleric, state television said on Thursday.
Russia sanctions throw spotlight on Putin's guarded private life
Western sanctions targeting not just the inner circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin but also his family have thrown a rare and unwanted spotlight on his private life, which the Kremlin has guarded with the fiercest secrecy.
US bans exports to three Russian airlines for sanctions violations
The US government has banned exports to Russia's state airline Aeroflot as well as two other carriers for flying aircraft in violation of sanctions, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
US House speaker Pelosi tests positive for Covid
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, has tested positive for Covid-19, her spokesman said Thursday.
Stocks waver as investors brace for US Fed tightening
US and European stocks fluctuated Thursday after minutes from central banks showed US policymakers ready to aggressively wind back easy-money policies while their eurozone counterparts disagreed over their own way forward.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, you and the SPD know the truth
Chancellor Scholz, you and also your party, the SPD, know the truth, because the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) knows the radio transmissions of Russian soldiers who planned, discussed and apparently carried out murders of civilians in Butscha (Ukraine). The plan: first question the civilians, then kill them. The BND intercepted radio transmissions and can even attribute some of them to killed civilians lying in the street. For example, soldiers had been talking about how a person had been shot from a bicycle. Russian radio transmissions clearly state: "Kill them all, damn you! Civilians, all of them, kill them all!", a Russian commander orders his units in the major city of Mariupol, which has been under siege for weeks, according to audio recordings.These are unmistakable orders to kill defenceless civilians, to massacre them, these are deliberate war crimes by the Russian soldiery! It would not be surprising if such orders were and are being issued to Russian soldiers in the other places and cities of Ukraine as well.
Yemen president cedes powers to council as ceasefire holds
Yemen's president said Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.
UN inaction on China abuses 'huge disappointment': Uyghur campaigner
The UN rights chief has miserably failed to address China's "genocide" against the Uyghur minority, a leading campaigner told AFP, demanding that a long-delayed report on abuses be released "immediately".
Yemen president cedes powers to council as peace talks beckon
Yemen's president said Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.
Mr Scholz, Mr Macron, millions of people are threatened by hunger because of Putin
Due to the consequences caused by the war in Ukraine, 45 million people are already facing "dramatic famine", according to Welthungerhilfe.That is three million more than at the beginning of the year, says Secretary General Mathias Mogge in a recent interview, according to BERLINER TAGESZEITUNG. Some western countries, such as Canada and Australia, are trying to meet the demand for grain.But this is not enough, which is why there will be unrest in countries where there is hunger, which will cause new sources of conflict. Therefore, the mass murderer Putin is now using hunger as a weapon, bombing Ukrainian petrol depots so that Ukrainian tractors are unable to get the grain into the ground!
Spat over AU envoy drives new wedge between Somalia's leaders
Somalia's feuding leaders were locked in a fresh dispute Thursday after the prime minister ordered the expulsion of the African Union's envoy -- a move rejected by the president as "illegal".
Канцлер Олаф Шольц, вы и СДПГ знаете правду
Канцлер Шольц, вы, а также ваша партия, СДПГ, знаете правду, потому что Федеральной разведывательной службе (BND) известны радиопередачи российских солдат, которые планировали, обсуждали и, очевидно, осуществляли убийства мирных жителей в Буче (Украина). План: сначала допросить мирных жителей, затем убить их. БНД перехватывала радиопередачи и даже может приписать некоторые из них убитым гражданским лицам, лежащим на улице. Например, солдаты рассказывали о том, как в человека стреляли с велосипеда. В российских радиопередачах четко сказано: "Убей их всех, черт тебя побери! Гражданские лица, все, убивайте их всех!", - приказывает российский командир своим подразделениям в крупном городе Мариуполе, который находится в осаде уже несколько недель, согласно аудиозаписям.
Mr Scholz, there are not enough sanctions, why are you doing so little?
The internationally highly respected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj is again calling for an embargo of Russian oil and a complete exclusion of the Russian banking system from international finance. Should there be no "really painful sanctions package" against Russia and no deliveries of the weapons demanded by Kiev to Ukraine, this would be seen by Russia as "permission to advance".
Ukraine warns of 'last chance' to flee as Russia prepares eastern attack
Ukraine urged its residents in the east of the country Thursday to take their "last chance" to flee mounting Russian attacks, after devastation around the capital Kyiv shocked the world.
Господин Макрон и господин Орбан, позвонили бы вы Гитлеру, почему Путину?
Подобная "дипломатия" глав европейских государств является скандалом, и это скандальное поведение подытожил глава польского правительства Матеуш Моравецкий из-за телефонных разговоров президента Франции Эммануэля Макрона с российским военным преступником и массовым убийцей Владимиром Путиным по поводу войны в Украине, справедливо назвав это отвратительным!Тот факт, что Макрон называет обоснованную критику главы польского правительства Моравецкого из-за его телефонных переговоров с российским диктатором Путиным в среду "необоснованной", показывает, что главы государств ЕС до сегодняшнего дня не понимали серьезности ситуации этой преступной российской террористической войны против Украины.
Le Pen vows headscarf fines in tight French election battle
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen vowed Thursday to issue fines to Muslims who wear headscarves in public, as candidates made a final push for votes three days ahead of an election seen as increasingly close.
Australia, Myanmar junta meeting 'unacceptable': HRW
Human Rights Watch on Thursday slammed a meeting between Australia's ambassador to Myanmar and the military junta chief, saying it was "lending credibility" to a regime accused of war crimes.
Mr Macron and Mr Orban, would you have phoned Hitler, why Putin?
The kind of "diplomacy" of European heads of state is a scandal and this scandalous behaviour is summed up by the Polish head of government Mateusz Morawiecki because of the telephone calls of the French President Emmanuel Macron with the Russian war criminal and mass murderer Vladimir Putin, about the Ukraine war, and rightly calls it abominable!The fact that Macron calls the justified criticism of the Polish head of government Morawiecki because of his telephone calls with the Russian dictator Putin, on Wednesday, "unfounded", shows that the EU heads of state have not understood the seriousness of the situation of this criminal Russian terror war against Ukraine until today.
UK denies climate retreat despite rethink on fossil fuels
Britain insisted Thursday it was sticking to its climate change goals despite unveiling a new energy strategy that foresees new drilling for North Sea fossil fuels.
Yemen's Hadi cedes powers to new leadership council as peace talks beckon
Yemen's president announced Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.
Sri Lanka president asks experts to plan debt restructure
Sri Lanka's beleaguered president has appointed an expert panel to organise a debt restructure to claw the country out of a crippling economic crisis that has sparked huge protests demanding his resignation.
Spain's Sanchez visits Morocco as tensions ease
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visits Morocco on Thursday, after Madrid reversed decades of policy on the Western Sahara to end a year-long diplomatic crisis, a U-turn that has angered Algeria.
Australia frees refugees from Djokovic detention hotel: activists
Australia on Thursday released the last refugees held in a former hotel where tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was spectacularly detained earlier this year, activists said.
Civilians try to flee east Ukraine as Russia prepares attack
Desperate evacuation attempts from eastern Ukraine were under way Thursday as authorities warned of an imminent Russian offensive, following the devastation around Kyiv that has shocked the world.
Yemen's president transfers power to new leadership council
Yemen's president announced Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.
Russian, Belarusian runners banned from Boston Marathon
Russian and Belarusian runners will not be allowed to take part in this year's Boston Marathon because of the invasion of Ukraine, organisers said on Wednesday.
Fleeing Russians help Uzbekistan chase IT dreams
Hit by regular power cuts and with popular sites like Twitter and TikTok blocked, the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan hardly seems a likely candidate for a tech boom.
Asia tracks Wall St losses as Fed prepares to tighten screws
Asian equity markets fell Thursday after minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting indicated it is preparing to aggressively wind back its monetary policy, while oil prices bounced back from another big drop.
From Kyiv to the Venice Biennale: Ukrainian artwork saved from war
On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Maria Lanko loaded her car with several works of art and, like thousands of other Kyiv residents, headed west.
Putin's daughters, sanctioned by US, hidden from public eye
Little is known publicly about Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters, sanctioned on Wednesday by the US government over Moscow's "atrocities in Ukraine."
Red Cross evacuee convoy arrives from Russian-held city
A Red Cross convoy arrived in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday after failing to reach the besieged port city of Mariupol, an AFP journalist on the scene reported.
Turkey fishermen fear mines in Black Sea
Turkish fisherman Sahin Afsut fears the worst: hitting a mine and "disappearing underwater in the blink of an eye".