Fri 29 April 2022: UK’s controversial Nationality and Borders Bill, described as the “anti-refugee bill,” has been adopted in the House of Lords, the upper house of Parliament. The bill was passed in the House of Lords on Wednesday by a vote of 212 to 157. “It truly is a bleak day for refugees fleeing […]
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Thu 28 April 2022: The Security Council failed to go far enough in its efforts to “prevent and end” Russia’s war in Ukraine, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres admitted Thursday while visiting Kyiv. “Let me be very clear: the Security Council failed to do everything in its power to prevent and end this war. And this is the source […]
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Thu 28 April 2022: According to the Interfax news agency, a Russian court fined Twitter 3 million roubles ($41,000) for failing to remove banned content from its service. According to Interfax, the fine was imposed because Twitter failed to remove content that was forbidden in Russia, including messages with instructions on how to build Molotov […]
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Thu 28 April 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday thanked his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for organizing the exchange of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko for ex-US marine Trevor Reed, Erdogan’s office said. The exchange took place in Turkey on Wednesday. “During a phone conversation on Thursday, Russian President Putin thanked President Erdogan for […]
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Thu 28 April 2022: Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s main medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stated on PBS’s “NewsHour” on Tuesday that the United States is “certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase.” “Currently we don’t have thousands of deaths and tens […]
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Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney attends an informal meeting of the UN Security Council at the UN Headquarters in New York City, US, on April 27, 2022 Thu 28 April 2022: For the first time, key players seeking accountability for atrocities during the Ukraine war have come together at an informal meeting of the UN […]
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Thu 28 April 2022: US-based multinational tech firm Microsoft said Wednesday in a report that Russia has carried out hundreds of cyber operations, including destructive attacks, against Ukraine throughout its invasion. In a report prepared with Ukrainian cybersecurity officials and private sector companies, Microsoft said: “The cyber component of Russia’s assault on Ukraine has been destructive and relentless.” […]
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Thu 28 April 2022: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 151 cases of salmonella have been related to the consumption of Kinder chocolate products in at least 11 countries. During inspections at the Kinder factory in Arlon, Belgium in December 2021 and January this year, bacteria with the same genetic structure as salmonella, which […]
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Commemoration in Dobrovoljacka Street in 2016. Photo: Anadolu. Wed 27 April 2022: Several former Bosniak political and military leaders have been charged with war crimes for their alleged role in the killing of retreating Yugoslav army soldiers at the start of the Bosnian war in the early 1990s. Sarajevo prosecutors on Wednesday charged 10 people […]
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Wed 27 April 2022: Australia has recorded its highest annual inflation rate in more than 20 years on the back of rising fuel prices. According to data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday, the consumer price index (CPI), which measures the cost of living, rose 2.1 percent in the March quarter […]
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