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Both Russia's Ministry of Defense and Vladimir Putin announced support for having Wagner Group fighters sign contracts with the army.
The head of the United Nations attacked fossil fuel companies Thursday, accusing them of betraying future generations and undermining efforts to phase out a product he called “incompatible with human survival.” Secretary-General António Guterres also dismissed suggestions by some oil executives — including the man tapped to chair this year’s international climate talks in Dubai — that fossil fuel firms can keep up production if they find a way to capture carbon emissions. It’s not the first time the U.N. chief has called out Big Oil over its role in causing global warming. But the blunt attack reflects growing frustration at the industry’s recent profit bonanza despite warnings from scientists that burning fossil fuels will push the world beyond any safe climate threshold.
The Ministers of Defence of the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and the US announced an urgent joint supply of the air defence means to Ukraine for the protection from the Russian attacks.
The Russian soldier claims that military authorities are sending soldiers to certain death and leaving the dead on the battlefield and simply reporting them missing.
The governor of Belgorod Oblast has received complaints about the behaviour of Russian soldiers deployed in the region, who are said to be breaking into houses, drinking and looting.
Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg joined the rally against ecocide in Ukraine, which was organised by Ukrainians in Bonn, Germany, in front of the United Nations building.
Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload have each been sentenced by a New Zealand court to more than two years in prison
‘That’s simply a cost of war,’ Petr Pavel says.
Egypt’s Prison Authority at Gamasa Prison executed Mohamed Adel on 14 June, according to a news report published by Ahram Online. Adel’s execution arrived almost a year after he fatally stabbed Nayera Ashraf outside Mansoura University’s campus – bringing an end to an extended criminal trial that triggered nationwide outrage and social media protests against […]
Ukraine's ongoing counter-offensive has resulted in some further advances, a minister says.
Estonia's liberal coalition government is only two months old and has moved swiftly on a draft bill legalizing same-sex marriage, among other measures, to distance itself from neighbouring Russia.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stated the need to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine.
China believes in an ‘independent Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital’, Xi says.
Deputies of the European Parliament condemned the demolition of the Kakhovska dam and recognized it as a Russian war crime, the institution announced after a plenary session in Strasbourg.
Palestinian rights advocates call for US sanctions on Israeli unit involved in killing of 80-year-old Omar Assad.
Invading Russian forces have ceased the transmission of radiation sensors at the occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to Ukraine, Chief State Inspector for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of Ukraine, Oleh Korikov, said at a briefing on June 14.
Kyiv says components including microchips supplied for civilian purposes are sent to Russia through countries such as China
A lease held by the Russian Federation for an embassy close to Parliament House has been cancelled by the federal government.
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