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Russia imprisons 75-year-old Spanish volunteer for over year, evidence shows he is being tortured
The Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Black Sea Fleet admitted for the first time that 75-year-old Spanish citizen Mariano García Calatayud was detained by “employees of the special services” and placed in a pre-trial detention centre.
UN reports 'off the charts' melting of glaciers says saving them is “effectively a lost cause.”
Uganda’s president has rejected a horrific new anti-gay bill as he thinks it's not extreme enough.
Uganda's anti-LGBTQ president Yoweri Museveni has sent the Anti-Homosexuality Bill back to parliament to render it even more draconian.
A fifth of Russian prisoners recruited to fight in Ukraine are HIV positive, with convicts promised anti-viral drugs if they agreed to fight: report
A fifth of recruits in Russian prisoner units are HIV positive, says Ukraine, per The New York TImes. Prisoners were recruited to join the Wagner Group in
Russian arms sales to India stall due to fears over US sanctions.
India News: Russia's supplies of military equipment worth more than $2bn to India have been stalled for a year as the countries attempt to bypass US sanctions. In
Canada buying gasoline, sniper rifles and radios for Ukraine
Canada is buying gasoline and sniper rifles for Ukraine — part of the latest military assistance package announced Friday by Defence Minister Anita Anand at a meeting of allies in Europe.
Ukraine's Defence Intelligence Chief arrested in absentia in Russia: he is to be put on international wanted list
A Russian court has arrested Kyrylo Budanov, Chief of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence, in absentia in the case of the “terrorist attack” on the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge and plans to put him on the international wanted list.
Russia says it has been 'saving' children from Ukraine, not stealing them, despite widespread evidence of abductions
There is growing evidence of Russia taking thousands Ukrainian children out of the country, and "re-educating" them in Russia.
All Nato members have agreed Ukraine will eventually join, says Stoltenberg | Nato
Secretary general says countries have agreed Kyiv will join military alliance when war with Russia is over
Twitter drops ‘state-affiliated’, ‘government-funded’ labels.
China’s Xinhua and Russia’s RT no longer labelled as state media after unannounced changes.
Vatican says disclosing emails in court clash is a "grave sin"
Chile plans to nationalize its vast lithium industry
Chile's President Gabriel Boric said he would nationalize the country's lithium industry, the world's second largest producer of the metal essential in electric vehicle batteries.
German Defenсe Minister considers operations of Ukraine’s Armed Forces on territory of Russia acceptable
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said that operations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian territory are perfectly acceptable.
NATO allies 'agree Ukraine will become member'
Jens Stoltenberg has repeatedly promised that Ukraine would join NATO throughout the war. Meanwhile, the Kremlin maintains that preventing this from happening is one of the goals of its war in Ukraine.
Massive gold heist being investigated at Toronto Pearson Airport
A total of $20 million worth of gold and other high-value goods have been stolen after being offloaded from an aircraft at Toronto Pearson International Airport, police say.
Uganda’s President Museveni refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ bill.
A spokesman says Museveni not opposed to bill’s punishments, but wants lawmakers to study ‘the issue of rehabilitation.’