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Ukraine war: Anti-Kremlin fighters say Russian soldiers ‘captured’
Joy Online 05 Jun 2023
Fighters opposed to the government in Moscow say they have captured some Russian soldiers in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine. Belgorod’s top official replied to say he had agreed to meet the men’s captors if the soldiers were still alive ... Russia has blamed Ukraine for recent attacks in its border territories ... .
photo: AP / Czarek Sokolowski
Hundreds of thousands march in Poland anti-government protests to show support for democracy
Vail Daily 05 Jun 2023
WARSAW, Poland — Hundreds of thousands of people marched in an anti-government protest in Poland’s capital on Sunday, with citizens traveling from across the country to voice their anger at officials who they say have eroded democratic norms and created fears that the nation is following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy ... The U.S ... .
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World’s spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore
The Philadelphia Inquirer 04 Jun 2023photo: AP / Sergei Grits
Demonstrators Try To Prevent Sweden From Joining NATO - Stoltenberg
MENA FN 05 Jun 2023
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 4 ... Stoltenberg noted that freedom of assembly and expression are among the core values of democratic societies and must be protected and respected ... It also weakens NATO.
photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi
Nearly 80 schoolgirls poisoned, hospitalised in Afghanistan: Report
Hindustan Times 04 Jun 2023
Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said Sunday. Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade.(AFP). Read here. Over 2.5 million girls deprived of education in Afghanistan. US special envoy ... Read here ... ....
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Nepal urged to tighten climbing rules to cut Everest deaths
Gulf News 04 Jun 2023
Kathmandu. Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide said on Sunday, after one of the deadliest climbing seasons in years on the world’s highest mountain ... .
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Is Gulf of Tonkin-type incident brewing in S China Sea?
Asiatimes 04 Jun 2023
More than 60 years ago, on August 4, 1964, the US claimed that North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked the US naval destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. This incident led to the August 10 US Congress Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that became then-president Lyndon Johnson’s legal justification for deploying US forces to South Vietnam ... That was then.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil, File
Secretario general de la OPEP destaca rol de Venezuela en el mercado energético
China.dot.org 05 Jun 2023photo: AP / Amr Nabil, File
OPEC alliance extends reduced oil production
ECNS 05 Jun 2023
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, agreed on Sunday along with allied nations to extend a cut in oil production ... The bloc also said it would reduce overall production targets from 2024 by a further total of 1.4 million barrels per day ... OPEC produces around 40 percent of the world's crude oil ... Related news.
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Uganda says 54 African Union peacekeepers killed in Somalia attack
The Observer 04 Jun 2023
At least 54 African Union peacekeepers were killed when militants attacked a base housing Ugandan units in Somalia last week, the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, said. “We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 fallen soldiers, including a commander,” Museveni said in a statement posted on his official Twitter account late on Saturday ... .
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Ukrainian president says at least 500 children killed by war
The Associated Press 04 Jun 2023
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The attacks come at night, when most in Kyiv are sound asleep. The sirens wail across the Ukrainian capital, rousing bleary-eyed residents, who, after 15 months of war, have customized individual routines to cope with Russia’s latest air campaign ... By her bedside is a bag packed full of essentials. documents, dry foods and water.
photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool
Train crash guilty ‘set to face harshest punishment’
Gulf Daily News 04 Jun 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said people found ‘guilty’ for the deadly train crash in India will receive the ‘harshest punishment’. At least 288 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in Friday’s accident in Odisha’s Balasore district state ... Passenger Anubha Das said he would never forget the scene ... .
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Sudan battles rage as US, Saudi urge new truce talks
Manila Bulletin 05 Jun 2023
KHARTOUM, Sudan - The United States and Saudi Arabia on Sunday made a renewed push for truce talks between Sudan's warring generals as deadly fighting has raged into its eighth week ... The RSF on Sunday claimed it had shot down a fighter jet after the army "launched an audacious airborne assault upon our forces' positions" in northern Khartoum ... .
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Erdogan vows introduction of new constitution in inauguration speech
Sina 04 Jun 2023
Reuters. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces new cabinet during a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, on June 3, 2023 ... Erdogan won 52.18 percent of votes in the presidential runoff on May 28 against his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the center-left Republican People's Party ... .
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North Korea Slams UN Meeting on Satellite Launch
Voa News 04 Jun 2023
North Korea denounced the U.N. Security Council for holding a meeting on its recent satellite launch upon "robbery demands" from the U.S., vowing to continue rejecting sanctions and taking "self-defensive" action, state media KCNA said Sunday. The U.S ... North Korea will never acknowledge U.N ... and its allies' "anti-North Korea, hostile policy." .