Yuriy Merkotan played in a military band and, after being caught up in the Mariupol siege, spent nearly two years in various jails
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US says parliamentarians must choose between Kremlin-style laws or Euro-Atlantic democratic path...
Deaf pro-Palestine students joined their hearing peers at the now-cleared George Washington University encampment....
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Unrest came as demonstrator who was attacked near his home says government is trying to intimidate critics...
Heavy rains triggered flash floods and caused torrents of cold lava and mud to flow down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 41 people and leaving more than a dozen others missing, officials have said. Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to...
Google is coming in for sharp criticism after video went viral of the Google Nest assistant refusing to answer basic questions about the Holocaust — but having no problem answer questions about the Nakba.
European Union countries gave their final approval on Monday to a law to cut carbon dioxide emissions from trucks, which will require most new heavy-duty vehicles sold in the EU from 2040 to be emissions-free....
Charity Sea Watch said the ordinance was aimed at preventing the world from seeing what was happening...
Heavy rains washed volcanic debris and pebbles down Mount Marapi in Indonesia....
A group of around 1,500 homebuyers say they have yet to see the apartments they paid for about eight years ago, as challenges persist in China’s property sector. The promise was they would be ready by 2019, but the majority are still unfinished, according to five of the homebuyers, who requested anonymity out of fear of...
For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zionist” and “Zionism” have become a watchword – pejorative and emblematic of the violent state policies driving...
At least two people are said to have been killed after a section of a 10-storey block collapsed in Belgorod....
The Baltic nation could veto long-discussed plans to charge VAT on online accommodation rentals and taxi rides....
Kepco has held discussions about developing Wylfa Newydd site on Anglesey...
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets of the capital Tbilisi on Saturday evening to protest a controversial “foreign influence” bill backed by the government....
Three decades ago, Chinese dissidents were being smuggled out of the country in a secret operation called Yellow Bird - but as one of them tells the BBC, Beijing is still pursuing them....
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The Prime Minister has been heavily criticised after documents from his government criticising Australia and New Zealand against China were leaked to media. The leaked document from Tonga’s Foreign Affairs Ministry shows that kingdom’s officials sharply criticised Australia and New Zealand’s response to the security pact...
Belize, Jamaica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the latest countries in the Americas to receive certification from the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating the mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis (EMTCT). The milestone was marked today at a commemorative event organized by the Pan American Health...
South African communities organise to tackle the high crime rate, with the police’s tacit approval....
Sergei Shoigu, a long-standing ally of the president, has played a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....