Giorno: 4 Maggio 2023

Greek authorities pull 39 migrants from river islet on Turkish border

Greek authorities on Wednesday rescued a group of 39 migrants who had been abandoned by smugglers on an islet in the river that runs along the country’s land border with Turkey, police said. DROWNED MIGRANTS WASHING ASHORE OVERWHELM AFRICAN NATION, ‘RADICAL SOLUTIONS’ SOUGHT AS CEMETERIES FILL UP A police statement said the 13 men, 11 […]

Rights Groups Urge Laos Government to Investigate Fatal Shooting of Political Activist

Read More Anousa Luangsuphom was shot dead at a coffee shop in the capital city of Vientiane Human rights groups have urged the Laotian authorities to launch a probe into the killing of political activist Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom, who was shot dead by an unidentified assailant on April 29. Luangsuphom was attacked late at night […]

US, Philippines to Share Military Intelligence on China

Read More The United States and the Philippines will share real-time intelligence about China’s military activities in the Pacific, the Pentagon said. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Philippine counterpart, Carlito Galvez, established the Bilateral Defense Guidelines on May 3. As part of that agreement, the two nations will increase their military coordination and […]

Court rules ANC can serve summons on De Ruyter in Germany

Read More The Pretoria high court has granted the ANC an order allowing the party to serve summons on Andre de Ruyter in Germany in its defamation suit against the former Eskom chief executive. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images) The Pretoria high court granted an order, unopposed, to allow it to serve papers abroad in its defamation […]

Elite UK schools’ financial links to slavery revealed

Read More Some of Britain’s most elite schools benefited from slavery through substantial donations and endowments worth the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds today, research has found. Eton College, Christ’s Hospital school and Liverpool’s Blue Coat grammar are among the 29 schools still operating that have significant documented links to donations from people […]

Russia-Ukraine war live: Black Sea oil refinery hit in Russia; Zelenskiy denies Moscow claim of Kremlin drone attack

Read More From 2h ago Emergency services say they have extinguished the fire at a large oil refinery in Russia two hours after it was hit in a drone attack, TASS news agency reported early on Thursday. TASS said the incident occurred at the Ilsky refinery near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in the […]

Police accused over use of facial recognition at King Charles’s coronation

Read More The Metropolitan police has been accused of using the coronation to stage the biggest live facial recognition operation in British history. The force said on Wednesday it intended to use the controversial technology, which scans faces and matches them against a list of people police want for alleged crimes and could identify convicted […]

Britons trapped in Sudan say relatives were not allowed on flights

Read More British people trapped in Sudan have described being forced to make impossible choices about whether to fly home without family members the UK government will not allow on flights. Suleiman, a British national who asked to withhold his family name, said a British official had called him to say he could be evacuated […]

Sen. Ossoff responds to Atlanta shooting that left 1 dead, 4 injured: ‘Unconscionable and unacceptable’

Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, called a shooting at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday, which left one person dead and four others injured, an “attack on all Georgians.” “Today’s horrific attack at Northside Medical Midtown is an attack on all Georgians. I send my condolences to the family of the deceased, and I […]

Democrats, Republicans criticize Biden for sending 1,500 troops to the US-Mexico border: ‘Unacceptable’

Some Democratic lawmakers have expressed concern over President Biden’s decision to send 1,500 active-duty U.S. troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it signals a “militarization” that is “unacceptable.” The White House announced Tuesday that 1,500 active-duty personnel will be deployed to the border to provide administrative support and fill security gaps for up to 90 […]