Month: May 2023

У Празі пікетували посольство РФ з вимогою повернути депортованих з України дітей

Кілька десятків чехів та українців 15 травня пройшли протестним маршем від українського до російського посольства у столиці Чехії. Активісти із українськими стягами та прапорами ЄС принесли дитячі іграшки, якими брязкали, дійшовши до російського посольства. Біля будівлі активісти розмалювали дорогу жовто-синьою крейдою та зробили написи «Поверніть українських дітей». У такий спосіб протестувальники хотіли вчергове привернути увагу до вивезення Росією тисяч дітей з окупованих територій України. «Ми зібралися тут, пройшли цим маршем, аби вкотре нагадати про злочини проти дітей, які вчиняє РФ в Україні. Тисячі дітей були навмисно або примусово вивезені зі свого дому. Ми залишимо біля будівлі посольства Росії в Празі …

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Turkish Opposition Supporters Voice Dismay Over Presidential Vote

Opposition voters expressed dismay and disbelief on Monday after Tayyip Erdogan took a solid lead in the first round of Turkey’s election, while the president’s overjoyed supporters expressed confidence that he would prevail in the May 28 runoff. “Until now I have witnessed many elections. My 14-year-old daughter who waited up all night for the election results went to bed disappointed. They have left me devastated this time,” said 55-year-old Menser Ozakdag, a taxi driver. “All I want is freedom, democracy, justice… I wish I had been born in another country,” he said. By contrast, Erdogan voters were upbeat about …

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Discovery of Europe’s Biggest Cocaine Factory in Spain Marks New Trend

The packets of cocaine were marked with the Superman shield, but this was no accident. In an effort to make the illicit merchandise look like it had been gift wrapped before being sent from Colombia, the gang wanted to hide the fact it was produced closer to home. The drug with apparent superpowers was made in a factory hidden in an isolated cottage in Galicia, northwestern Spain. A gang of eight “cooks” worked around the clock, seven days per week, in almost total isolation to produce 150 kilograms of the drug. But police officers who busted the gang said the …

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ДПСУ: на території Білорусі залишилися 2,5 тисячі російських військових

«За нашими даними, на території сусідньої країни перебувають близько 2,5 тисячі військовослужбовців РФ, які, як правило, залучені до підготовки, навчань і перебувають на полігонах Білорусі» …

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French Club Holds Emotional Tribute for AFP Reporter Killed in Ukraine

French topflight football club Rennes on Sunday held an emotional homage to Arman Soldin, their former youth player and the AFP video reporter killed Tuesday in Ukraine. Soldin’s mother and brother live in the western city and Rennes held the tribute to his memory at the Breton club’s home match with Troyes. Rennes invited around 30 of Soldin’s friends and family — including a sister living in the Bosnian city of Mostar — to pay tribute to his sacrifice. Fans joined them in warmly applauding as images of the slain reporter were shown on giant screens at the stadium while …

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Ukrainian President: Counteroffensive Won’t Aim to Attack Russian Territory 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that his country is preparing a counteroffensive designed to liberate areas occupied by Russia, not to attack Russian territory.  Speaking during a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s goal is to free the territories within its internationally recognized borders.  The Washington Post cited previously undisclosed documents from a trove of U.S. intelligence leaks suggesting that Zelenskyy has considered trying to capture areas in Russia proper for possible use as bargaining chips in peace negotiations to end the war launched by Moscow in February 2022. This would put him …

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Dozens Demand Release of French Detainees in Iran

Dozens of supporters of two French nationals detained last year in Iran demanded their release in Paris Sunday after Tehran freed two fellow citizens who had been on hunger strike. “Freedom for Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris,” they chanted at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, a little over a year after their arrest on May 7, 2022. Kohler, a teacher, and her partner Paris, remain in prison in the Iranian capital’s Evin prison accused of espionage charges their family deny.  Their relatives and friends gathered in Paris after Iran on Friday released French nationals Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, …

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Ракетний удар по Тернополю: пожежі в складських приміщеннях ліквідовані – ДСНС

«Робот-помічник наших рятувальників вже не перше доводить свою ефективність. З його допомогою рятувальникам вдалося ліквідувати наслідки ворожих атак на Тернопільщині та Хмельниччині» …

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Serbia: 13,500 Weapons Collected in Amnesty, Including Rocket Launchers 

Serbian authorities on Sunday displayed many of around 13,500 weapons they say people have been handed over since this month’s mass shootings, including hand grenades, automatic weapons, and anti-tank rocket launchers. The authorities have declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to hand over unregistered weapons or face prison sentences as part of a crackdown on guns following the two mass shootings that left 17 people dead, many of them children. Populist President Aleksandar Vucic accompanied top police officials on Sunday for the weapons’ display near the town of Smederevo, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital, Belgrade. …

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