Tue 31 January 2023: Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings fell five points to 36% and 31%, respectively, over the past month and a half, according to a recent poll released on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. According to the Odoxa Institute, 63% of French respondents think Macron is not a […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: In a four-day investigation across the state, the New South Wales (NSW) state police in Australia reported on Tuesday that they had detained over 600 perpetrators of domestic abuse, Anadolu Agency reported. Following a new high-impact operation targeting the state’s most dangerous domestic violence offenders, NSW police said in a statement […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: The government of Quebec province called Monday for the resignation of Canada’s newly-appointed representative to fight Islamophobia, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he supports Amira Elghawaby. Elghawaby, a human rights activist and the world’s first government-appointed official anti-Islamophobia agent, wrote a newspaper column in 2019 critical of the then-recent passing of Quebec’s secular law, Bill 21, which […]
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An exploded PFM-1S antipersonnel mine, also called a ‘butterfly’ or ‘petal’ mine, found by HRW in the Izyum area in September 2022 [Courtesy of Human Rights Watch] Tue 31 January 2023: Ukraine should investigate the “apparent use” of banned antipersonnel landmines by its troops in the northeastern area of Izyum when it was under Russian […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: The Russian embassy in London warned of an increase in European tensions after the chairman of the British defense select committee said the UK should “face Russia directly” over Ukraine. “This and similar remarks, including arguments that Tobias Ellwood, the head of the Commons’ defense committee, made today in favor of […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: When Russia invaded Ukraine, it expected a quick victory. But almost a year later, Moscow continues to spend huge sums to send more soldiers and equipment to the front lines. Meanwhile, international sanctions are also targeting its primary source of revenue: oil and gas exports. And yet, even as these costs […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: The security for nationwide protests against a proposed pension reform would be provided by 11,000 police officers and gendarmes, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced on Monday. On January 19, the first wave of protests against the legislation that would raise the retirement age in the nation began. Tuesday’s second wave […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian athletes should not compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris because it would show that “terror is somehow acceptable,” the BBC reported on Monday. Zelenskyy said he condemns the idea of neutrality in sports at a time when his country’s athletes have fought and died in war, while […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: Research carried out for the Sutton Trust found nearly a quarter of the 1,000 UK students interviewed said they were “less likely” to be able to complete their degree because of cost pressures, while one in three from working class families said they were cutting down on food to save money, The Guardian […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: Türkiye may show a different approach to Finland’s NATO bid than Sweden, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. “If NATO and these countries (Finland and Sweden) take such a decision, we, as Türkiye, think that we may evaluate the applications separately, but first of all, NATO […]
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