'He said he was going towards Kyiv.'
Russian families turn to Ukrainian hotline in desperate search for lost soldiers
Updated 0448 GMT (1248 HKT) March 8, 2022
Chinese government adviser calls for law to ban ‘fake news’
Jia Qingguo claims the proliferation of misinformation online has fuelled tensions between China and foreign countries
An adviser to the Chinese government has called for new laws to ban “fabricating and disseminating fake information online”, blaming the rampant disinformation on the internet for polarising Chinese public opinion.
Jia Qingguo, a member of China’s highest political advisory body, said he also believed the proliferation of misinformation online had fuelled tensions between China and foreign countries.
“For example, there are often people online who, for some purpose, package a foreigner’s vicious remarks against China as the view of everyone in that country towards China in order to incite the Chinese people’s dissatisfaction and hostility towards said country and its people,” Jia said in an interview on Saturday with online news portal The Cover, which is affiliated with the state-owned Sichuan Daily.
Russia shares new video of Brittney Griner bag search as experts warn she could be used as pawn for Putin
Video shows Griner going through security check at airport near Moscow before she was detained
Experts have warned that Vladimir Putin could use basketball player Brittney Griner as a pawn in the ongoing tension surrounding the Ukraine war after Russia released a new video of the athlete arrested last month near Moscow.
Ms Griner can be seen in the video placing her luggage for security check at the airport, as officials start to check the contents of her bags.
The footage was released on Saturday after the Russian Federal Customs Service announced that the 31-year-old basketball player was arrested at the Sheremetyevo Alexander S Pushkin International Airport some time last month after vape cartridges containing hashish oil were allegedly found in her bag.
Nigerian rape survivors own their voices
Two Nigerian women who were sexually abused as children have been working to help prevent other girls from experiencing the same trauma. They tell DW their stories, which empower them to support other victims of abuse.
Sonia Obi-Okodo and Toyin Ndidi Taiwo-Ojo do not know each other, but they share similar traumatic experiences. They were both sexually abused by somebody they trusted. Their stories are now out in the open — despite Nigeria's cultural expectation of silence.
The two survivors — now in their 30s and 40s respectively — work to educate girls about the dangers they need to be aware of.
Analysis: women across Japan far behind in gender equality
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 8, 2022 at 18:42 JST
Women’s participation is still low across many of Japan's 47 prefectures, particularly in politics and management, while pay equality also continues lagging, according to a study by The Asahi Shimbun.
The results showed women were particularly underrepresented in politics nationwide, accounting for 10.6 percent of all prefectural assembly members. Yamanashi Prefecture had the lowest ratio in the country at 2.8 percent, or only one woman in its 36-member prefectural assembly.
Ukraine war: Boy of 11 flees to safety in Slovakia by himself
A boy has arrived safely in Slovakia after travelling some 1,200km (750 miles) from eastern Ukraine with no more than two small bags, a passport and his relatives' phone number.
Hassan, 11, left his home in Zaporizhzhia because his mother could not leave her elderly mother.
She put him on a train and when he finally got to the border he was helped across by customs officers.
Officials said he was a true hero and had won over everyone with his smile.
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