Kazakhstan says 5,800 detained in week of protests
The office of Kazakhstan's president says about 5,800 people were detained by police during protests that burst into violence last week and prompted a Russia-led military alliance to send troops to the country
The office of Kazakhstan’s president said Sunday that about 5,800 people were detained by police during protests that developed into violence last week and prompted a Russia-led military alliance to send troops to the country.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s office said Sunday that order has stabilized in the country and that authorities have regained control of administrative buildings that were occupied by protesters, some of which were set on fire.
The Russian TV station Mir-24 said sporadic gunfire was heard in Almaty the country’s largest city, on Sunday but it was unclear whether they were warning shots by law enforcement. Tokayev on Friday said he had authorized police and the military to shoot to kill to restore order.
Ukraine’s fate hangs in balance as ‘critical’ week of talks begins
Experts say prospects of deal are ‘very, very dicey’ as top US and Russian diplomats meet in Geneva
A momentous week of diplomacy is about to get under way in Europe, with the fate of Ukraine, hemmed in by 100,000 Russian troops, hanging in the balance.
Senior diplomats from the US and Russia will meet in Geneva on Sunday and Monday to discuss Moscow’s demands, set out last month in two draft treaties, one with the US and one with Nato. Much of their content is unacceptable to Washington and the alliance, most importantly a pledge that Ukraine will never be a Nato member.
“There are some things in Russia’s drafts on which we are never going to agree. It is not up to Russia, for example, to decide for other countries who they can be allies with,” a senior US administration official said on the eve of the talks.
Escaping CoronaA Community of German Anti-Vaxxers on the Black Sea Coast
By Walter Mayr in Aheloy, Bulgaria
They came here to stay. Their cars with license plate numbers from the North Sea coast, Berlin and Bavaria are parked out in front of the Château Aheloy on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria. The apartment complex in the town of Aheloy is considered a stronghold of German-speaking corona truthers and so-called "Querdenker," that hodgepodge of anti-government conspiracy theorists who have waged an ongoing campaign against all measures aimed at combatting the pandemic.
A security guard keeps watch just inside the iron gate at the entrance. Those who say they are interested in moving in are led to Dirk Gelbrecht, a man from northern Germany who founded a group on Telegram last January called "German Emigrants in Bulgaria." Now, less than one year later, his group has grown to more than 2,500 members.
Tourists question blizzard tragedy in scenic Pakistan town
As unprecedented snowfall thawed at a popular Pakistan mountain resort on Sunday, rescued tourists were found reckoning with the deaths of 22 fellow travellers in a frozen traffic jam.
"We didn't get any type of alert from society, from the government, from Google, from the news, from the weather," said 18-year-old Duaa Kashif Ali, a tourist from Islamabad.
"Locals helped us," she told AFP, after emerging from a guesthouse where she waited out the worst snowstorm witnessed by Murree in decades.
At least 200 dead in bandit attacks in northwest Nigeria
About 200 people were buried following killings of civilians by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Zamfara state with many still unaccounted for.
An estimated 200 people were killed and 10,000 displaced in attacks by armed bandits in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara following military air raids on their hideouts last week.
A spokesperson for Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, said more than 200 bodies were buried.
Novak Djokovic: Australia says tennis star given no visa assurances
Novak Djokovic was given no assurances that a medical exemption would allow him into Australia, lawyers fighting to deport the tennis star have argued.
The court filing by lawyers for the Australian government also reveal Djokovic, 34, is unvaccinated.
Australia's Covid border rules ban non-double vaccinated foreigners from entering, unless they have a medical exemption from having the jabs.
Djokovic's legal team argue a recent infection gives him a valid exemption.
The Serbian tennis player flew into Melbourne last week, hoping to defend his Australian Open title.
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