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UN outlines five days of horror in Mali's Moura
AFP, Published on 12/05/2023
» DAKAR - A damning report released Friday by the United Nations on a March 2022 incident in Moura, central Mali, describes five days of horror during which at least 500 people were allegedly executed by Malian and "foreign" soldiers.
US livid as basketball star Griner moved to Russian penal colony
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» MOSCOW - Russia is moving US basketball star Brittney Griner to a penal colony after she lost an appeal against a drug conviction, her lawyers said Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House.
US livid as basketball star Griner said moved to Russia penal colony
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» WASHINGTON: Russia is moving detained US basketball star Brittney Griner to a penal colony, her lawyers said Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House.
The war crime that goes mostly unpunished
Published on 19/04/2022
» The dark red billboards in the Ukrainian city of Lviv present a powerful image: Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his knees, a woman stands above him and pushes a gun into his mouth. The caption reads: “I am not a beauty for you.”
Ukraine says Russia wants to 'destroy' Donbas, Mariupol readies final defence
AFP, Published on 18/04/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wanting to "destroy" the entire eastern region of Donbas, as the last remaining forces in the strategic port of Mariupol prepared Monday for a final defence.
Biden accuses Putin's forces of 'genocide' in Ukraine
AFP, Published on 13/04/2022
» KRAMATORSK, Ukraine: US President Joe Biden has for the first time accused Vladimir Putin's forces of committing genocide in Ukraine, where Russia is intensifying its campaign to take the strategic port city of Mariupol.
War in Ukraine: Latest developments
AFP, Published on 13/04/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:
Russia closes in on Mariupol as Putin strikes defiant tone
AFP, Published on 12/04/2022
» KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) - Russian troops on Tuesday intensified a campaign to take the port city of Mariupol, part of an anticipated massive onslaught across eastern Ukraine, as President Vladimir Putin made a defiant case for the war on Russia's neighbour.
The impact of Russia's latest war atrocities
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/04/2022
» Four years after the Soviet Army fought its way into Berlin in 1945, Moscow built a huge memorial in Treptower Park to the 80,000 Russian and other Soviet soldiers who died taking the city. (5,000 of them are actually buried in the park.) And Berliners instantly took to calling it the "Tomb of the Unknown Rapist".
US to announce new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine killings
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: The United States was expected to announce tough new sanctions on Russia Wednesday, including a ban on new investments, a day after Ukraine's president showed the UN Security Council harrowing images of violence and accused Moscow of widespread atrocities.