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ODESA, UKRAINE - APRIL 27, 2022 - Relatives and friends are present during the funeral service of Valeriia Hlodan, her three-month-old baby girl Kira and her mother Liudmyla Yavkina at Transfiguration Cathedral, Odesa, southern Ukraine. The women and an infant were killed after one of the Russian cruise missiles launched against Odesa hit an apartment block on April 23, 2022. (Photo credit should read Nina Liashonok/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

484 children killed and 992 injured in Ukraine since war began

KYIV — At least 484 children have been killed and 992 injured since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Thursday as Ukraine marked International Children's Day.“The Office of the Prosecutor General provides procedural guidance in proceedings on more than 2,900 war-related crimes against children: murder and injury, sexual violence, attacks on institutions and facilities for children, deportation, forced displacement, abduction,” it said in a statement.Ukraine and most other eastern European post-Communist countries mark June 1 as International Children's Day. Towns, schools and community groups often organize children-focused events like sports days and fun fairs.Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska tweeted Thursday:...

June 01, 2023

484 children killed and 992 injured in Ukraine since war began

People hold a giant Serbian flag during a protest in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo, Wednesday, May 31

Efforts to defuse Kosovo crisis intensify amid more protests

BERLIN — The leaders of Germany and France will lead a renewed diplomatic push to defuse tensions in Kosovo on Thursday. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron plan to meet the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo at a summit in Moldova.International efforts to defuse the crisis in Kosovo look set to intensify on Thursday with the leaders of France and Germany due to meet senior top officials from Serbia and Kosovo at a summit in Moldova.A German government spokesperson said Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron plan to meet with the leaders of both countries.Spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin that the meeting will take place on the sidelines of the European Political Community meeting in Chisinau.On Wednesday, hundreds of...

June 01, 2023

Efforts to defuse Kosovo crisis intensify amid more protests

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at a joint press conference in Luleå on Tuesday.

Blinken pushes Turkey to approve Sweden’s accession to NATO

STOCKHOLM — The United States has urged Turkey to approve Sweden’s accession into NATO, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that “the time is now” for the northern European country to join the alliance.Speaking alongside Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Tuesday, the top US diplomat said Sweden has been qualified to join NATO “from day one” and has taken significant steps to address Turkey’s “legitimate” security concerns.“From the perspective of the United States, the time is now to finalize Sweden’s accession,” Blinken told reporters in the northern Swedish city of Lulea.Sweden and neighboring Finland started seeking NATO membership last year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The US-led alliance has a collective defense pact,...

May 31, 2023

Blinken pushes Turkey to approve Sweden’s accession to NATO

Bangladeshi garment employees leave a clothing plant at the end of their working day. — courtesy ILO/ Marcel Crozet

Economic woes dash job prospects in low income countries: ILO

GENEVA — Soaring debt levels compounded by high inflation and rising interest rates have dashed job-seekers’ hopes in developing countries, the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned on Wednesday.In its new Monitor on the World of Work report, ILO shows that while in high-income countries, only 8.2 percent of people willing to work are jobless, that number rises to over 21 percent in low-income countries — or one in every five people.Low-income countries in debt distress are worst affected, with more than one in four people who want to work unable to secure employment.ILO’s Assistant Director-General for Jobs and Social Protection, Mia Seppo, said that global unemployment was expected to fall below pre-pandemic levels, with a projected rate of 5.3 percent in 2023,...

May 31, 2023

Economic woes dash job prospects in low income countries: ILO

Footage appears to show drone flying in south-eastern Moscow

Putin says Ukraine trying to frighten Russians following Moscow drone attack

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded to Tuesday's drone attacks on the capital Moscow, accusing Ukraine of trying to frighten Russians.He said civilians were targeted, but air defenses dealt satisfactorily with the threat.The Defense Ministry said at least eight drones caused minor damage, but Kyiv has denied responsibility.This is the first time the city has been targeted by multiple drones since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said no-one was seriously injured. Several drones fell on an exclusive western suburb where senior officials live.Speaking on Russian TV, Putin said the attack had been a response to what he described as a Russian attack on Ukraine's military intelligence HQ in recent days. The BBC is unable to...

May 30, 2023

Putin says Ukraine trying to frighten Russians following Moscow drone attack

NATO will deploy additional forces to Kosovo in response to violent clashes that injured dozens of Serb protesters and international peacekeepers, sparking fears of a wider conflict in the Balkans nation.

NATO to send 700 more troops to Kosovo to help quell violent protests

BRUSSELS/ PRISTINA — NATO will deploy additional forces to Kosovo in response to violent clashes that injured dozens of Serb protesters and international peacekeepers, sparking fears of a wider conflict in the Balkans nation.The US-led military alliance said it had decided to send Operational Reserve Forces into Kosovo and instruct an additional battalion of troops to be ready to deploy in seven days if necessary.The street violence since Monday, in which three NATO troops were shot and 27 more were injured after being hit by projectiles and improvised explosive devices, is the worst to hit Kosovo in years, and threatens to derail an EU-brokered deal intended to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.The additional deployment of NATO forces was a “prudent measure...to maintain...

May 30, 2023

NATO to send 700 more troops to Kosovo to help quell violent protests

Glaciers are retreating due to climate change including in Chile (pictured). — courtesy World Bank/Curt Carnemark

WMO makes urgent call to action over melting cryosphere

GENEVA — Global warming’s devastating effects on the world’s sea ice, icebergs and glaciers — part of what is known as the cryosphere — need to be better understood and mitigated, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).WMO warned on Tuesday that glaciers and ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica accounts for some 50 percent of sea level rise, which is accelerating, with disastrous impacts on small island developing states (SIDS) and densely populated coastal areas.The average thickness of the world’s glaciers has plummeted by almost 30 meters since 1970.“The cryosphere issue is a hot topic not just for the Arctic and Antarctic, but it is a global issue,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.The irreversible changes in the global cryosphere will...

May 30, 2023

WMO makes urgent call to action over melting cryosphere

A specialist inspects the damaged facade of a multi-storey apartment building after a reported drone attack in Moscow on May 30, 2023. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine denies involvement in alleged Moscow drone attack

LONDON — Ukraine has denied direct involvement with an alleged drone attack on the Russian capital, Moscow, on Tuesday.“Of course, we enjoy watching and predicting an increase in attacks. But of course, we have nothing to do directly with it,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak told the Breakfast Show YouTube channel.He also said, “What is growing in Russia is the karmic payment that Russia will gradually pay in aggravated form for everything it does in Ukraine.”Russia had blamed Ukraine for the alleged attacks early Tuesday.Meanwhile, Alexander Khinshtein, a member of the Russian Parliament from President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, said the alleged drone attack on Moscow is "a new reality we will have to recognize.""Undoubtedly,...

May 30, 2023

Ukraine denies involvement in alleged Moscow drone attack

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick

UK government launches campaign to put off migrants from Albania

LONDON — The UK government is to launch an advertising campaign that aims to deter Albanian nationals from crossing the English Channel.Posters issued by the Home Office, the government department which handles immigration, warn people face being "detained and removed" if they make the journey.The department also promised to outline the "perils of the journey" in the campaign, which will run in Albanian on Facebook and Instagram.The campaign comes as UK net migration grew to 606,000 in 2022, 164,000 higher than in 2021. Of those numbers, about 114,000 arrivals to the UK were from Ukraine following the outbreak of war.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak believes the numbers are too high and he wants to bring them down. He has made tackling people coming across the English...

May 30, 2023

UK government launches campaign to put off migrants from Albania

Russia issues arrest warrant for top US Senator Lindsey Graham

MOSCOW — Russia has issued an arrest warrant for US Senator Lindsey Graham, after an edited video appeared to show him celebrating Russian troops' deaths.The footage, which spliced together two separate moments, was posted by President Volodymyr Zelensky's office after the pair met in Kyiv on Friday.In it Senator Graham called aid to Kyiv as "the best money we've ever spent", noting Russian troops were "dying".The senior Republican said he would wear the warrant as a "Badge of Honor"."To know that my commitment to Ukraine has drawn the ire of Putin's regime brings me immense joy," Senator Graham wrote in a Twitter post on Monday. "I will continue to stand with and for Ukraine's freedom until every Russian soldier is...

May 30, 2023

Russia issues arrest warrant for top US Senator Lindsey Graham

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