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Mariupol theatre: ‘We knew something terrible would happen’
For 10 days, that basement was a refuge for Kate, a 38-year-old Mariupol native, and her son, who is 17. Their own home, like many others in the besieged city, had been destroyed by Russian attacks, and they thought the Donetsk Regional Theatre of Drama was a place where they would be relatively safe.
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Russia’s state TV hit by stream of resignations
Days later, the EU said it was banning all of RT’s various outlets as well as those of fellow Kremlin outlet Sputnik for their “campaign of disinformation, information manipulation and distortion of facts”. Russia’s German-based state news agency Ruptly has also endured a spate of resignations, according to Reuters news agency.
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$4.3 billion needed to help over 17 million people across Yemen
A “funding crunch” has put millions of people in Yemen at risk of catastrophe, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, in support of an urgent appeal to donors to fund the humanitarian response in the war-torn country. UN News
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Yemen war now ‘chronic emergency’ as millions face hunger
After more than seven years of war, Yemen is living in a chronic state of emergency, marked by hunger, disease and other miseries that are rising faster than aid agencies can reverse, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Tuesday, as the Special Envoy for the country called for joint efforts by Yemenis and the international […]
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Syria: Children ‘live in fear of violence’, scarred by 11 years of war
Nearly five million children born in Syria since March 2011 have known nothing but conflict. After 11 years of war, the crisis continues to leave them struggling with physical and psychological scars, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. UN News
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Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian journalist in court after TV protest
Images of Ms Ovsyannikova’s protest were quickly shared across the world after she ran on to the set of one of Russia’s most-watched news programmes, Vremya, holding a sign reading “No war, stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.”
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UN rights chief decries mass execution of 81 people in Saudi Arabia
The UN human rights chief has condemned the beheading of 81 people by Saudi Arabia during the course of a single day, charged with terrorism-related offences. UN News
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Mass graves in Ukraine: Battered cities are digging makeshift burial sites
The battered city’s street cleaners and road repair teams were collecting bodies in the streets, he said, as municipal services had collapsed. “Some people were killed during those collections. We’ve had no electricity, or heating, sanitation, water, food for 11 days,” he said.
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Yemen facing ‘outright catastrophe’ over rising hunger, warn UN humanitarians
Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is “teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe”, UN agency chiefs said on Monday, as new data analysis from the war-ravaged country indicated potentially record food insecurity. UN News
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Ukraine: ‘Not all Russians support this war’
Tens of thousands of Russians have left the country since the invasion of Ukraine. They’re mostly young and liberal – they’re shocked by the war and economic sanctions, and are concerned by the latest crackdown on dissent led by President Putin. An estimated 25,000 of them have moved to Georgia. Yevgeny is one of them. […]