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Tens of thousands march for equality on Women’s Day
NEW YORK: Tens of thousands of women marched around the world Wednesday as protests stretched from Turkey to Spain to the United States demanding equal rights and slamming Donald Trump with an avalanche of criticism. As the world marked International Women’s Day, officials said 40,000 people gathered in Madrid to denounce violence against...
Foreigners held against their will
France interns Austro-Germans During World War I France opened some 60 internment camps in the south and west of the country, where tens of thousands of foreigners were held for all or part of the conflict. The French authorities feared that if left free the foreigners would spy or sabotage the war effort or join enemy ranks. At the time of the...
Ukraine protesters keep graft trial on track despite health scare, bomb threats
KIEV (Reuters) – A judge ordered Ukraine’s top tax official on Tuesday to be jailed or pay a hefty bail pending his trial for suspected embezzlement, in a landmark ruling hailed by protesters as a blow for transparency in one of Europe’s most corrupt countries. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine accused of seeking to litigate Crimea annexation
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Russia accused Ukraine on Tuesday of taking it to court under false pretences, using allegations of financing terrorism and ethnic discrimination as a front to litigate Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula three years ago. …read more Source: The...
Russia ‘up to no good’ with its meddling — UK’s Johnson
BRUSSELS: Russia must halt ‘unacceptable’ meddling in other countries, especially the Balkans and Ukraine, for there to be any chance of a fresh start with the West, British foreign minister Boris Johnson said yesterday. “Let us be very clear, Russia is up to all sorts of no good,” Johnson said as he arrived for an EU foreign and defence...
Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘terrorism’ in top UN court
THE HAGUE: Ukraine urged the UN’s top court yesterday to help bring stability to its war-torn east, seeking to convince judges that Russia is ‘sponsoring terrorism’ in Kiev’s conflict with separatist pro-Russian rebels. “Today I stand before the court to ask for the protection of the basic human rights of the Ukrainian people,”...
Ukraine to accuse Russia of ‘terrorism’ in top UN court
THE HAGUE: Kiev will seek to convince the UN’s top court Monday that Moscow is “sponsoring terrorism” in a bloody conflict involving separatist pro-Russian rebels, as tensions escalate in war-torn eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s representatives will also ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to take emergency measures...
Ukraine and Russia face off in U.N. court over separatist conflict
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Tensions between Ukraine and Russia will play out at the U.N.’s highest court on Monday when judges begin hearing Kiev’s request to order Moscow to halt support for pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The...
Pirates in Nigeria release Russian, Ukrainian sailors – agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Nigerian pirates have released seven Russian and one Ukrainian sailors after they were captured last month on the cargo ship the BBC Caribbean, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a human rights activist in Crimea. …read more Source: The...
British foreign minister to visit Russia to discuss differences
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s foreign secretary Boris Johnson will go to Moscow in the coming weeks to discuss the differences between the two countries over Syria and Ukraine, the Foreign Office said on Saturday, in the first such visit for five years. …read more Source: The...
