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Europe’s top human rights court to probe Russian annexation of Crimea
Kyiv claims Moscow prohibited public gatherings, held people unlawfully and persecuted pro-Ukrainian residents …read more Source:: Financial...
Mother who stabbed her newborn son to death is jailed for two years in Ukraine
Mother-of-three Anastasia Skorychenko, 30, was sentenced to two years in prison at a court in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, after stabbing her newborn son 22 times to death with nail scissors. …read more Source:: Daily...
The storming of the US Capitol is not just about Trump, but the whole American right
No sooner had the mob moved on the Capitol than the whole right-wing establishment began to act as if they didn’t know the unruly man who had incited them to do so. It fell to Vice-President Pence, fresh from resisting his boss’s demands to “disappear” the electoral college votes of states that had gone the wrong way, to summon the...
Ukraine’s constitutional court crisis escalates
President signs decree suspending country’s chief justice for 2 months …read more Source:: Financial...
What will Joe Biden bring to the US-Russia relationship?
Despite Donald Trump’s chummy attitude towards Vladimir Putin, relations have deteriorated between the two countries. Will much change under the next president? The final weeks of the Trump administration included a piece of news. A company called SolarWinds, based in Texas, was used as the foothold for what may have been the largest-ever...
In January, I made ten predictions for 2020 – how did they turn out?
An end-of-year report card for our international editor’s preview of the year. On 5 January, I published a preview of 2020 in world affairs. In it, I posed ten crucial questions about the year ahead, described the factors that I thought would decide each and in each case offered a prediction. I concluded with a pledge to return to these at...
Chernobyl fears resurface as river dredging begins in exclusion zone
Scientists warn of threat of nuclear contamination from work on giant E40 waterway linking Baltic to the Black Sea in our series Biodiversity: what happened next?The river running past the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is being dredged to create an inland shipping route, potentially resurfacing radioactive sludge from the 1986 disaster that could...
Are forest fires unlocking radiation in Chernobyl?
Ukraine’s firefighters expose dangerous conditions tackling fires in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. …read more Source::...
Girl, 10 months, horrifically burned after electric heater set cradle on fire
WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES: Anna, from Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine, was rescued by her mum from a burning cradle that was set on fire by an electric radiator left in her room on all night …read more Source::...
Putin’s aggressive policies show sign of a worried regime
Analysis: Amid constitutional changes and Navalny poisoning, Russian president strives to maintain powerFor a man who has spent much of 2020 in social isolation, it has been a busy year for Vladimir Putin. He changed the constitution to allow himself to stay in power until 2036; acted to retain influence over his “near abroad” as protests erupted...
