Month: July 2022

У Львові рідні військовополонених вийшли на акцію – закликають ООН і Червоний Хрест відвідати Оленівку

У руках вони тримали плакати з написами «Поверніть героїв додому», «Оленівка 29.07.2022», «Росія – країна-терорист», «Азов». Ці ж гасла скандували, а також «Будь сильним як «Азовсталь». …

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Nigerian Street Vendor Brutally Killed in Italy

Hundreds of people from the Nigerian community of the central Italian city of Civitanova Marche took to the streets Saturday to protest the slaying of a Nigerian street vendor. The killing was caught in cellphone video, but no one intervened to stop the slaying of the disabled man. Police say an Italian man, Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32, has been arrested in connection with the brutal beating of Alika Ogorchukwu, a 39-year-old husband and father. The footage of the incident shows Ferlazzo using the vendor’s crutch to strike him down. Ogorchukwu had lost his job as a laborer after being …

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Генштаб: війська РФ намагаються покращити тактичне положення на Донецькому напрямку

Зокрема, як вказують у командуванні, штурмовими діями загарбники намагалися покращити тактичне положення у напрямках Роти – Вершина і Покровське – Бахмут, але «із втратами відійшли назад» …

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Zelenskyy Calls for Evacuation of Eastern Donetsk

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Saturday for the evacuation of eastern Donetsk province, the region that has seen the fiercest fighting as Russia seeks to fully control it. Hundreds of thousands of people, including children and the elderly, remain in combat zones of the larger Donbas region, which includes Donetsk and Luhansk. It is also the region where Ukrainian prisoners of war died in a missile attack earlier this week. Zelenskyy made the announcement Saturday during his nightly video address to his nation. “The more people leave [the] Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time …

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Iran Arrests Swedish Citizen on Espionage Charges

Iran has arrested a Swedish citizen on espionage charges, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, after a court in Stockholm sentenced a former Iranian official for war crimes earlier this month. Iran has arrested dozens of foreigners and dual nationals in recent years, mostly on espionage and security-related accusations. Rights groups call that a tactic to win concessions from abroad by inventing charges, which Tehran denies. “The suspect had been under surveillance by the intelligence ministry during several previous trips to Iran because of (their) suspicious behavior and contacts,” IRNA quoted the Iranian intelligence ministry statement as saying. …

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Pope Says He’ll Slow Down or Retire

Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was “a bit of a test” that showed he needs to slow down and one day possibly retire. Speaking to reporters while traveling home from northern Nunavut, the 85-year-old Francis stressed that he hadn’t thought about resigning but said “the door is open” and there was nothing wrong with a pope stepping down. “It’s not strange. It’s not a catastrophe. You can change the pope,” he said while sitting in an airplane wheelchair during a …

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