Ukraine crisis: 'We don't have the option to leave'
By Joseph Lee
BBC News
British and other foreign nationals in Ukraine have been warned to flee the country amid rumours of an imminent Russian invasion. It has left families grappling with difficult dilemmas.
Despite the warnings of an imminent invasion, Ken Stuart can't leave Ukraine.
His wife Tatiana has just given birth to a son, Douglas. He's due to take them both to their home in Kyiv from hospital on Saturday.
Ken, who is originally from Edinburgh, tells BBC Radio 5 Live: "He doesn't have a birth certificate yet - it takes one to two weeks to get that - and without a birth certificate, he can't have a passport and without a passport, we can't leave the country."
French police fire teargas at Covid pass protesters in Paris
Associated Press in Paris
French police fired teargas at demonstrators on the Champs Élysées in Paris shortly after a “Freedom Convoy” protesting against Covid-19 restrictions made it into the capital.
Cars carrying protesters managed to get through police checkpoints in central Paris on Saturday to snarl traffic around the Arc de Triomphe.
Inspired by horn-blaring “Freedom Convoy” demonstrations in Canada, the motorists waved French flags and honked in defiance of a police order not to enter the city.
Afghans protest US order to give $3.5 B to 9/11 victims
Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital have condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims
Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans
Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.
Biden's order, signed Friday, allocates another $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for humanitarian aid to a trust fund to be managed by the U.N. to provide aid to Afghans. The country's economy is teetering on the brink of collapse after international money stopped coming into Afghanistan with the arrival in mid-August of the Taliban
Linguists bust COVID-19 myths for minority language users
By TATSUYUKI KOBORI/ Staff Writer
February 12, 2022 at 07:10 JST
Linguists from around the globe have teamed up to provide accurate facts and bust myths about the novel coronavirus for minority language speakers through a multilingual website.
“This website was very useful to me and my community at (the) initial period of (the) pandemic,” Kunzang Namgyal, who lives in the Indian state of Sikkim, located at the foot of the Himalayas, told The Asahi Shimbun in an email.
Namgyal, 41, who speaks Drenjongke, a minority language used by about 70,000 people, said a void of information about the virus at the time had enabled misinformation and myths to quickly spread, throwing the local community into chaos.
India: Hindu groups force shut KFC, KIA stores over Kashmir tweet
Stores owned by several multinational companies have been forced to shut down by hardline Hindu groups in the Indian state of Gujarat after their Pakistan-based subsidiaries posted messages on social media in support of Kashmir.
The companies posted messages on social media on February 5 to coincide with Pakistan’s Kashmir Solidarity Day, held annually to commemorate the sacrifices of Kashmiris struggling for self-determination, causing anger among social media users in India.
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