Mon 13 June 2022: The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court order requiring it to remove information on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, stating that people have a right to know the truth about the conflict, Reuters reports. The Wikimedia Foundation was fined 5 million roubles ($88,000) by a […]
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Tue 14 June 2022: Over the last year, the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (ASIF) has received 104 reports of questionable activity. According to the supervisory body’s annual report, the majority came from the Vatican’s bank, the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), as well as five Vatican authorities. According to the report, […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday he tested positive for COVID-19, adding that he was feeling fine since he was vaccinated. “I’ve tested positive for COVID-19. I’ll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay, but that’s because I got my shots. So, if you haven’t, get vaccinated – and if you can, get […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: On Monday, the crypto winter hit hard, with the price of a single Bitcoin plummeting to approximately $25,600, an 18-month low. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell another 7% on fears of risk-off attitude as a result of a strong spike in global inflation, particularly in the United States. Bitcoin (BTC) hit […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: Human Rights Watch has written an urgent letter to the Home Secretary urging the government to rescind their plan to expel people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda. At the beginning of this month 15 Syrians were served with a removal notice informing them they would be sent to Rwanda as “the […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: He was Vladimir Putin‘s first prime minister but Mikhail Kasyanov never in his worst nightmares imagined that his former boss would unleash a full-scale war on Ukraine. Speaking to AFP in a video interview, Kasyanov, Russia‘s prime minister from 2000 to 2004, said he expected the war could last up to two years but he […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: The global stockpile of nuclear weapons is expected to rise in coming years for the first time since the Cold War due to global tensions, a leading arms watchdog has said. In its annual report published on Monday (PDF), the Stockholm International Peace Research (SIPRI) said on Monday that all nine […]
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Olha Kotenko and her husband Volodymyr looked at the exhumation of their son’s body from an improvised grave in the backyard of their house. He was killed by Russian racists in Mala Rohan, Kharkiv region, on May 23, 2022. Mon 13 June 2022: Amnesty International has accused Russia of carrying out war crimes in Ukraine, […]
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Sun 12 June 2022: On Sunday, a pro-Russian separatist leader in eastern Ukraine said Sunday he would not alter the death sentences handed to two Britons and a Moroccan for fighting with the Ukrainian army. “They came to Ukraine to kill civilians for money. That’s why I don’t see any conditions for any mitigation or […]
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Sun 12 June 2022: Canada is on track to become the first country in the world to include health warnings on individual cigarettes. Two decades ago, the country started a worldwide trend by mandating the addition of graphic picture warnings on tobacco product packaging. “We need to address the concern that these messages may have […]
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