Month: February 2023

Violence Outside British Hotel for Asylum Seekers Leads to 15 Arrests

British police said Saturday that 15 people, including a 13-year-old child, had been arrested after a protest by crowds outside a hotel housing asylum seekers turned violent, causing injuries and a police van being set on fire. Offenders threw missiles including lit fireworks at police officers following an initially peaceful protest and counter-protest Friday evening in Knowsley near Liverpool in northwest England, police said. Knowsley Council said the protests occurred outside the Suites Hotel, which has been providing refuge to asylum seekers since January last year under a British government contract. One officer and two members of the public received …

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Survivors Still Being Found as Quake Death Toll Tops 25,000

Rescue crews on Saturday pulled more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings despite diminishing hopes as the death toll of the enormous quake that struck a border region of Turkey and Syria five days ago surpassed 25,000. Dramatic rescues were being broadcast on Turkish television, including the rescue of the Narli family in central Kahramanmaras 133 hours after the 7.8-magnitude temblor struck Monday. First, 12-year-old Nehir Naz Narli was saved, then both of her parents. That followed the rescue earlier in the day of a family of five from a mound of debris in the hard-hit town of Nurdagi, …

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Генштаб: «ПВК Вагнера» з початку місяця «використала» близько 1200 осіб із в’язниць Криму

9 лютого голова ПВК «Вагнер» Євген Пригожин заявив про зупинку кампанії із вербування ув’язнених, але аналітики кажуть, що, найімовірніше, скоротилися лише масштаби …

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Spain’s Matador Suit Makers Face Uncertain Future   

When Enrique Vera opens the door to his workshop, an array of gleaming gold and silver matadors’ jackets shine in the sun. “It is little bit like a cave full of treasure,” he says. Vera painstakingly fashions the brilliant trajes de luces (suits of lights) which are worn by bullfighters when they face half-ton bulls in the ring. One of only seven sastres (bullfighting tailors) in the world, he used to be a matador. But he swapped the sword used to kill the bull for a needle and followed a family tradition to become a tailor. The iconic status of …

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Гайдай: з-поміж усіх напрямків фронту вихід на адмінкордон Луганської області для РФ – «найпростіше завдання»

Сергій Гайдай: «На жаль, але все ж таки всього 12 населених пунктів деокуповані, то це для російського військового командування таки найпростіше завдання» …

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VOA Interview: Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, who has called for the creation of an ad hoc international tribunal to investigate and prosecute Russian aggression in Ukraine, has registered 65,000 war crimes committed by Russian forces. Vsevolod Knyazev, the head of Ukraine’s Supreme Court, calls it a necessary step — one that should also target Russian leaders who ordered the invasion. “Putin will not come to the court voluntarily, and Russia will not pay voluntarily,” Knyazev tells VOA’s Ukrainian Service. The following has been edited for length and clarity: VOA: Ukraine is an EU candidate country. Judicial reform is considered to be …

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EU Summit: Talk but No Big Decisions on Ukraine, Migration

After a European Union summit ending February 10 that offered strong support for Ukraine — and calls for stronger measures against illegal migration — the bloc is now challenged to act on its rhetoric. But on both Ukraine and migration, European member states are not marching in complete lockstep. EU membership, fighter jets and fences counted among the top three buzzwords of a summit, featuring the standing-ovation presence of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and talks about curbing a sharp influx of so-called “irregular migrants” from places like Africa. Zelenskyy got a rousing welcome from European members of parliament and leaders, …

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