Russia on Friday vetoed a bid to extend UN Security Council approval for 12 months of UN aid deliveries to some 4 million people in opposition-controlled northwest Syria from Turkey. The resolution, drafted by Ireland and Norway, received 13 votes in favour, while China abstained ... "This is a life and death issue ... "We're not daunted by this veto ... ....
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A Ukrainian regional official warned Friday of deteriorating living conditions in a city captured by Russian forces two weeks ago, saying Sievierodonetsk is without water, power or a working sewage system while the bodies of the dead decompose in hot apartment buildings. Gov ... “Fierce battles are going on in several villages on the region’s border.
TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime MinisterShinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe was shot in the back while campaigning in the city of Nara for parliamentary candidates ... ___ ... Source .
Sixteen people were killed in India-occupied Kashmir, with rescuers searching for dozens more missing, after flash floods swept away hundreds of tents near a popular Hindu pilgrimage site, officials said on Saturday ... — Reuters. “We found 16 bodies so far and at least 40 are missing,” an official from the state disaster response agency told AFP ... — AFP.
SHANGHAI. Four people at a renowned Shanghai hospital were wounded by a knife-wielding assailant on Saturday, in the second reported stabbing incident after a Covid-19 lockdown of the financial hub was lifted early in June ... A long trail of blood was seen on the marble surface of a flight of stairs in one video ... "This is very despairing ... .
For a few weeks, I’ve been in Kiev, partly as a visiting fellow at leading Ukrainian think tank the TransatlanticDialogueCenter. Kiev is an astonishingly elegant and beautiful city; a premier league European capital... Cafes and restaurants are open and largely busy ... “We are losing this war.”. He is right ... While Ukraine is not winning, it is losing ... ....
Druzhkivka, Ukraine, July 9 (UrduPoint / PakistanPointNews - 9th Jul, 2022 ) .Russian troops pursued their "relentless" shelling of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Saturday, as the United States promised new military aid to Kyiv including powerful rocket launchers ...Air raid sirens sounded overnight throughout the country's east and south ... ....
US PresidentJoe Biden has signed an executive order to protect women's reproductive rights, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month. The order will introduce new measures to give women access to abortion clinics, medical professionals, medicines, contraceptives, and more ... Wade ... 'FIRSTSTEPS' ... ALSO READ. US.
Amber Heard leaving court last week. Amber Heard’s lawyers have stepped up their demands for a new trial in her multimillion-dollar defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp following claims of “improper juror service” ... The documents continued ... Johnny Depp ... “Ms Heard’s due process was therefore compromised,” the documents stated ... Lawyers concluded ... .
There were “undeniable” flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime MinisterShinzo Abe, the head of police in the area where the leader was assassinated has admitted, pledging an investigation. Japan’s best-known politician was on the campaign trail in the western region of Nara when a gunman opened fire at close range ...Police facing questions ... .
There is a widespread perception that the history of the United States is best viewed in a linear context. That said, it could not be further from the truth ... This transition seemed seamless and continued until Americans were sent to fight wars in the GreatMiddle East ... It also exposes how US history is cyclical ... “We were poor before the takeover ... .
From his days stoking anti-European Union sentiment with exaggerated newspaper stories, to his populist campaign leading Britain out of the bloc and reneging on the post-Brexit trade deal he signed, outgoing U.K.Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has been the bane of Brussels for all so many years ... election loss of Donald Trump in 2020 ... 17, 2019. AP-Yonhap.
Tunisian President Kais Saied published an amended version of a draft constitution late Friday in an attempt to ward off criticism after the original was slammed for the nearly unlimited power it gave his office ... .
The United NationsHuman Rights Council Thursday adopted four new resolutions, including one in which it extends the mandate of the independent expert on protection from violence and discrimination related to sexual orientation and gender identity for three years. The mandate for the independent expert was first approved in 2016 and renewed in 2019.