Europe

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for slavery reparations over the transatlantic slave trade, which deprived enslaved people of “education, healthcare, opportunity and prosperity.” “We call for reparatory justice frameworks, to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination,” Guterres said Monday, which marked the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and […]

The Republic of Ireland will intervene in the case against Israel under the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The ICJ has been asked to consider whether Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel rejects the allegations as “baseless”. South Africa brought the case to the court – which is […]

BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s ruling military council marked Armed Forces Day on Wednesday with a speech claiming that the nation’s youth were being tricked into supporting the resistance against army rule, and that ethnic armed groups allied with the resistance engage in drug trafficking, natural resources smuggling and illegal gambling. Senior Gen. […]

Russia’s top general announced the formation of a new Dnipro River patrol force last week. Western intelligence says these troops will likely be vulnerable to Ukraine’s fleet of drone boats. Kyiv has used these exploding naval drones to wreak havoc on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Russia’s new river patrol force could be vulnerable to the same […]

VIENNA (AP) — Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-painted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. The portraits were completed Wednesday on the wall behind the monument, which was already painted in Ukraine’s […]

Rome — Italy has not only renewed but decided to expand a controversial program to remove children from their mafia families to break the cycle of criminal behavior being passed down to new generations. The “Free to Choose” project has been in place in the Calabria region — the base of the powerful ‘Ndragheta crime syndicate […]

Three people have been killed in Israeli army operations overnight in Jenin in the West Bank, the Israeli army reported. Israel’s military said it conducted an anti-terrorist operation in the town on Tuesday night, during which Palestinians had thrown explosive devices. The soldiers responded with gunfire, killing one person. The 19-year-old who was killed was […]

Hezbollah has fired a barrage of rockets into northern Israel, killing one person, in response to deadly Israeli strikes on a Lebanese village. Lebanese sources said seven people were killed in the Israeli attack overnight on Habbariyeh, making it one of the deadliest in recent violence. Israel said militants were killed, including one involved in […]

North Korea’s state broadcaster, KCTV, has blurred out a pair of jeans worn by veteran British TV host Alan Titchmarsh as part of the country’s censorship of foreign fashion and culture. KCTV carried an episode of Titchmarsh’s show “Garden Secrets,” originally aired on the BBC in 2010, on Monday. At one point he can be […]

A leading German economic research institute has significantly lowered its economic forecast for the country in the coming year. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) spoke on Wednesday of “headwinds” for the economy from within Germany and abroad. “The economy in Germany is struggling,” said Stefan Kooths, from the IFW. The institute expects […]

Claims of rebels capturing thousands of Ethiopian soldiers in the country’s restive Amhara region have become a popular disinformation topic on social media. One post recently featured a video of men in civilian clothes being marched down a mountainside by armed individuals. However, the captives in the footage were not Ethiopian troops: officials said the […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced one of the country’s top security officials in a reshuffle that comes as the war has dragged into a third year. Zelenskyy dismissed Oleksii Danilov, who served as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, thanking him for his service in a video address […]