Month: June 2024

Verdict due in Dutch crime reporter’s killing

The Hague — A Dutch court will on Wednesday hand down a long-awaited verdict over the 2021 assassination of high-profile crime journalist Peter R. de Vries, a killing that shocked the country. De Vries was gunned down in broad daylight on a busy Amsterdam street in July 2021, sparking an outpouring of grief and spotlighting the country’s drug gang underworld. Authorities believe gunmen targeted De Vries, 64, due to his role as advisor to a key witness in the case of drug kingpin Ridouan Taghi.  Police arrested two suspects, identified only as Dutchman Delano G. and Kamil E. from Poland, shortly …

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Понад чверть бойових зіткнень фіксується на Покровському напрямку – Генштаб ЗСУ

Також бойові дії відбувалися на Харківському, Куп’янському, Лиманському, Краматорському, Курахівському, Времівському, Оріхівському, Гуляйпільському та Придніпровському напрямках …

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Man jailed in Belgium for 25 years over Rwandan genocide      

Brussels — A court in Brussels on Monday sentenced a 65-year-old Belgian-Rwandan man to 25 years in prison for murder and rape committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.   Emmanuel Nkunduwimye was found guilty of war crimes and genocide for a series of murders as well as the rape of a Tutsi woman.  Nkunduwimye, who was first arrested in Belgium in 2011, owned a garage in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, in April 1994 when the genocide began. The garage was part of a complex of buildings that was the scene of massacres perpetrated by Interahamwe militiamen.   Nkunduwimye was close to several militia …

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Чверть бойових зіткнень за добу відбулося на Покровському напрямку, ЗСУ збили літак Су-25 – Генштаб

Також бойові зіткнення відбулися на Харківському, Куп’янському, Лиманському, Сіверському, Краматорському, Курахівському, Времівському, Оріхівському та Придніпровському напрямках …

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French leader calls for new legislative vote after far-right victory in EU polls

Paris — Right-wing parties chalked up major gains in several key European countries following the European parliament elections — with France facing perhaps the biggest fallout. French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved parliament and called for new legislative elections later this month, after the far-right National Rally scooped up nearly one-third of the vote in Sunday’s European parliament elections — more than twice the share for Macron’s ruling Renaissance Party.   Shortly after the first results were announced, Macron was on national TV, announcing snap legislative elections in France — three years ahead of schedule. The first round of voting takes place …

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