Month: March 2023

Libya: UN-backed probe cites crimes against humanity in Libya
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Libya: UN-backed probe cites crimes against humanity in Libya

Geneva: UN backed human rights experts said on Monday there is evidence that crimes against humanity – including sexual slavery – have been committed against…

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UK pushes on with asylum law despite rights group opposition
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UK pushes on with asylum law despite rights group opposition

LONDON: The British government pushed its contentious migration bill forward in Parliament on Monday, despite a call from Europe’s top human rights organization for lawmakers…

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Poland: Belarus accuses Poland of causing long delays at EU border
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Poland: Belarus accuses Poland of causing long delays at EU border

Belarus on Monday accused Poland of causing long delays at its border with the European Union by slowing the movement of trucks, alleging that Warsaw…

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Philadelphia residents warned about chemical spill in river
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Philadelphia Chemical Rivere: Philadelphia residents warned about chemical spill in river

FILE – Michael Gray-Lewis, a Jackson State engineering graduate questions EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, center, Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, and Radhika…

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Russian shelling of Ukraine city kills 2, wounds 29 people
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Russian shelling of Ukraine city kills 2, wounds 29 people

KYIV: Two people were killed and 29 wounded Monday when Russian forces shelled the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, in the partially occupied eastern Donetsk region,…

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Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan ruling party takes majority of seats in snap vote
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Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan ruling party takes majority of seats in snap vote

Astana, Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan‘s ruling party secured nearly two-thirds of seats in the Central Asian country’s parliament, according to final election results published Monday. The snap…

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Russia: Putin ally says Russia has weapons to destroy US if its existence is threatened
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Russia: Putin ally says Russia has weapons to destroy US if its existence is threatened

MOSCOW: An ally of President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia has the weapons to destroy any enemy, including the United States, if its own…

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Myanmar: Myanmar junta leader urges foreign powers to back its return to democracy
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Myanmar: Myanmar junta leader urges foreign powers to back its return to democracy

Myanmar‘s military ruler on Monday urged his foreign critics to get behind his junta’s planned return to democracy, instead of siding with a resistance movement…

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Avdiivka: Ukraine withdraws city workers from frontline town Avdiivka
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Avdiivka: Ukraine withdraws city workers from frontline town Avdiivka

Kyiv, Ukraine: A Ukrainian official in the battered frontline town of Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region said Monday that municipal workers were being withdrawn,…

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Kabul: Suicide bomber kills 6 people near foreign ministry in Kabul
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Kabul: Suicide bomber kills 6 people near foreign ministry in Kabul

Islamabad: A suicide bomber struck on Monday near the foreign ministry in Kabul, killing at least six people and wounding several, according to officials. It…

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