Sun 21 May 2023: It was not just the eruption that led to the death of the inhabitants of Pompeii but also the simultaneous earthquake Turmoil, confusion, attempted escapes and, in the meantime, an earthquake, showers of pumice, volcanic ash and hot gases. This was the inferno of the eruption of AD 79, the living […]
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Sat 20 May 2023: Russia’s private army Wagner claimed on Saturday the total control of the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the epicentre of fighting, as Kyiv said the battle was continuing but admitted the situation was “critical”. Bakhmut, a salt mining town that once had a population of 70,000 people, has been the scene […]
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Sat 20 May 2023: The funeral and lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 cost the British government an estimated £161.7 million ($200.5 million), figures show. The largest cost was reported by the Home Office at £73.7 million, followed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) at £57.4 million. The cost to […]
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French President Emmanuel Macron depicted as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler Photograph:(Twitter) .Sat 20 May 2023: France has launched an investigation into posters caricaturing President Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler, according to local media reports on Thursday. The 30 posters were reproductions of a mural of French President Emmanuel Macron painted by a local street artist […]
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Sat 20 May 2023: A U.S. court found that the FBIimproperly searched for information in a U.S. database of foreign intelligence 278,000 times over several years, including on Americans suspected of crimes, according to a ruling released on Friday. The decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence […]
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ICC Chief Karim Khan visited Bucha in Ukraine in April, 2022. Sat 20 May 2023: Russian media reported on Friday that Moscow had issued an arrest warrant for the ICC prosecutor who had filed a warrant in March for the detention of Russian President Vladimir Putin on accusations of war crimes. Karim Khan, the […]
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Fri 19 May 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday met with the presidential candidate of ATA (Ancestral) Alliance, Sinan Ogan. The meeting was held in Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul and took about an hour. Millions of voters went to polls on Sunday to elect the country’s next president and the members of its […]
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Fri 19 May 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted on Friday the plight of Tatar Muslims of Crimea, which remains under Russian occupation, at the Arab League Summit in Jeddah. The president said that he arrived in Saudi Arabia with Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatar people. Underlining that Crimean Tatar Muslims “were the […]
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Fri 19 May 2023: A new report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) has revealed a significant disparity in the treatment of unaccompanied minors of asylum seekers compared to the accompanied ones in Europe. This included depriving the unaccompanied minors of legal protections, detaining them, and the insufficiency of services provided to them […]
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Fri 19 May 2023: On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee warned the British government that if the restoration of the Palace of Westminster is delayed, a terrible calamity might force the 147-year-old complex to collapse and be destroyed. The British Parliament is housed in the Palace of Westminster, an architectural masterpiece and UNESCO World Heritage Site. […]
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