Some towns in Ukraine don't have more than 3-4 days' worth of food, according to aid agency
CNN’s Antonia Mortensen
Some towns in Ukraine don’t have more than three or four days’ worth of food, the aid agency Mercy Corps said Tuesday, warning that the humanitarian system in the country “is entirely broken down.”
“One of our biggest concerns right now is the vulnerability of the supply chain. We know that most municipalities in areas seeing the most intense fighting don’t have more than three to four days’ worth of essentials like food,” said Mercy Corps’ Ukraine humanitarian response adviser Steve Gordon, who is in Kharkiv, the site of some of the heaviest fighting since the Russian invasion.
At least 70% of the population of Kharkiv and Sumy is entirely dependent on aid, he estimated.
China locks down city of 9 million and reports 4,000 cases as Omicron tests zero-Covid strategy
City of Shenyang has barred residents from leaving without a 48-hour negative test result and put all housing compounds under ‘closed management’
Agence France-Presse
China has locked down an industrial city of 9 million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases, as the nation’s “zero-Covid” strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave.
Health authorities reported 4,770 new infections across the country on Tuesday, the bulk in the north-eastern province of Jilin, as the city of Shenyang in neighbouring Liaoning province was ordered to lock down late Monday.
China has moved fast in recent weeks to snuff out virus clusters with a pick-and-mix of hyper-local lockdowns, mass testing and citywide closures. It reported two Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, the first in over a year.
Alexei Navalny: Kremlin critic jailed for nine more years in maximum security prison after ‘sham’ trial
Opposition figure already in prison on charges that he and his supporters say are politically motivated
Arch Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine more years in a maximum security prison following what campaigners and supporters described as a “sham trial”.
A Russian judge also ruled that Mr Navalny would have to pay a fine of 1.2m roubles (about £8,600).
Mr Navalny is currently serving another prison sentence of two and a half years in a prison colony east of Moscow.
Exclusive: How chronic oil pollution at sea goes unpunished
Cargo ships continue to pollute the world's oceans with oily wastewater. A DW investigation shows how seafarers circumvent environmental laws to save time and money, with devastating effects on the ocean.
Nothing he had learned at his naval college had prepared the young marine engineer for what he encountered at sea: not for the toxic culture in which superiors bullied and abused junior crew members with seeming impunity, nor for the indifference with which seafarers treated the very oceans that earned them a living — illegally dumping contaminants into the waters without a second thought.
The engineer told DW that at first he was worried, sad even, as he witnessed how oily wastewater was routinely illegally dumped into the ocean from the giant tanker he worked on. But, as the pollution continued, he soon grew numb to it. "Now, I've just accepted it — I know it sounds sad, but ..." he trailed off.
‘Worse than a horror film’: Refugees from Ukraine's Mariupol describe city's devastation
Viktoria and Oleksii Kazantsev had been sheltering in Mariupol before leaving the port city in their car, which had been protected from Russian forces' bombardment in an underground garage. Now in Lviv with their daughter, they describe the devastation they witnessed as they fled.
Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to be trapped in Mariupol, a port city in southeastern Ukraine that has seen non-stop attacks from Russian forces. As fleeing civilians describe relentless bombardments and corpses lying in the streets, those left behind have no access to food, water, power or heat.
India: Muslim activist recounts two ‘painful’ years in jail
Ishrat Jahan was arrested during the 2020 Delhi riots following protests against a controversial citizenship law passed by Modi’s government.
When Ishrat Jahan walked out of a prison in the Indian capital last week, she was hugged by her sister and they burst into tears as relatives gathered around to welcome her back home after more than two years of imprisonment.
“I missed my family a lot. This separation was very difficult for me,” she told Al Jazeera a week after her release from jail
Jahan, a 31-year-old activist, was arrested along with dozens of other Muslims in February 2020 during mass protests against a controversial citizenship law passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government in December 2019.
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