Veysel Ok, a lawyer for three Kurdish journalists on trial, told BIRN that they were being threatened with prison solely because of their reporting on worsening human rights violations in Turkey....
Putin announced his decision to run in the March 17 presidential election during a Kremlin award ceremony, according to Tass and RIA Novosti state news agencies ... When Putin announced he would run for a new term in 2012 and Medvedev submissively agreed to become prime minister, public protests brought out crowds of 100,000 or more ... .
He called for a “humanitarian ceasefire” to prevent “a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians” and the entire Middle East...Israel is severely restricting the entry of food, water, fuel and medicine, and 1.8 million people (80 percent of Gaza’s population) have been forced to leave home to escape Israeli attacks ... AFP .
U.S.Secretary of StateAntonyBlinken, in his strongest public criticism of Israel's conduct of the war on Hamas in south Gaza, said there was a gap between the government's declared intentions to protect civilians and the casualties ... .
The EU, which sees imports from China as a potential threat to companies and jobs, pressured China on its large trade surplus with Europe and its de facto support for Russia in the war in Ukraine. Separate post-summit news conferences on Thursday evening highlighted the divergent positions ...Sign up. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our Credit ... WANG.
Leaders gathered in Dubai for the United Nation’s (U.N.) COP28 ClimateSummit are fiercely debating loss-and-damage funding—money pledged to low-emission countries due to the costs of extreme weather and slow-onset disasters caused by high-emission countries ... fund established in 2023 at COP27. The obvious answer should be ... .
LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Six former London police officers on Thursday were given suspended prison sentences for sharing offensive and racist messages on WhatsApp, including references to Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and other members of the royal family ... Meghan's mother is Black and her father is white ... Our Standards ... , opens new tab ... ....
Firearms were used in 75 percent of homicides recorded in the Americas in 2021, while they were employed in less than 20 percent of homicides in Europe and Asia.