Putin says talks with Ukraine are at a "dead end"
From CNN’s Uliana Pavlova
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that peace talks with Ukraine had hit "a dead end."
"Now, security requirements are one thing, and the issues of regulating relations over Crimea, Sevastopol and Donbas are taken out of the scope of these agreements. That is, we have again returned to a dead-end situation for ourselves and for all of us," he added, speaking alongside his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at a news conference.
Putin vowed that he "will not stop military operations" in Ukraine until Moscow succeeds.
The Russian leader also dismissed the reports of atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha as “fake” and compared them to “fake” reports about the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Assad regime.
- Russian troops are pouring into Ukraine, with a large column of military vehicles seen heading in the direction of the Donbas region.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko are meeting Tuesday at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, in eastern Russia.
- Unverified reports have emerged of a possible strike involving chemical substances in Mariupol.
- There are increasing reports of rape and sexual violence being used against women and children in Ukraine, the UN Security Council was told Monday.
- Ukrainian officials said more than 4,000 people were evacuated Monday from areas where fighting continues, including a few hundred from the besieged city of Mariupol.
‘Hurricane Hazel’: Canada political icon, 101, still flying high as airport director
Hazel McCallion retired as mayor of Mississauga after 36 years in 2014 but the ‘pragmatic populist’ has shown little sign of easing up
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
When Hazel McCallion retired in 2014 as the mayor of the Canadian city of Mississauga, she was 93.
But while most people her age typically retreat from the spotlight of public life, “Hurricane Hazel” has shown little interest in slowing down. At 101, she recently accepted an offer to extend her role as a director for the greater Toronto airport authority, a contract that will last three years.
Omar Alghabra, Canada’s transport minister, congratulated the centenarian, commending her four decades of community service and her future “overseeing and guiding Canada’s largest airport”.
Feeding a city under siege: Meet the volunteers who saved Chernihiv civilians from starvation
From bringing in supplies through secret routes to delivering sandwiches amid Russian shelling, citizens in Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv tell Bel Trew how they risked their lives every day to provide food to thousands of people battling hunger and thirst
All the bridges to Chernihiv had been blown up in heavy Russian bombing and the city was under a crippling siege but Tanya still managed to sneak out on a rowing boat through a secret route and head to Kyiv.
The 54-year-old only narrowly escaped death.
As she was scrambling onto the opposite bank of the Desna river, which cuts through the city, shelling struck nearby. She only avoided being shredded to pieces thanks to a nearby trench.
The aim of the dangerous journey was to help evacuate a group of elderly people but also to reach the capital to register and start fundraising for her new charity, which aimed to feed the bombarded city. To do this, she crept across the river, crossed the front line and weathered shelling and shooting – a daring undertaking she went through all over again on the way back from Kyiv.
How the EU spent billions to halt migration from Africa
Fight irregular migration, return and reintegrate migrants, create more legal pathways to the EU: The European Union set high goals with its Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. DW examines whether the EUTF achieved them.
Faced with hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving in EU countries in 2015, policymakers from member states felt the pressure to show a quick reaction. Convening with the leaders of several African countries in the Maltese capital, Valletta, they decided to fill a pot of money. This money was not dedicated to helping integrate the thousands of people who had arrived in the European Union. Instead, the so-called EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) was supposed to "address the root causes of irregular migration" so that fewer Africans might try to make their — often dangerous — way to Europe.
Last hostages free after long-running DR Congo mediation drama
The last four members of a team that went to northeast DR Congo to mediate with an armed group who then took them hostage are now free, their spokesman said Tuesday.
The eight-member team had travelled to Ituri province in mid-February with the government's blessing, seeking to persuade an armed group called CODECO to end a bloody campaign of ethnic violence.
But the mediators -- including three former warlords -- were themselves seized by CODECO, who accused the army of using the reconciliation trip as a cover to shell their positions.
One hostage was released on March 21 and three others, including the team's driver, on April 4.
India: Muslims see wave of attacks, hate speech on Hindu festival
Right-wing Hindu groups hold processions in Muslim neighbourhoods and make hate speeches during Ram Navmi celebrations in several states.
Muslims in several Indian states are on edge after mobs came out in processions, making hate speeches and attacking their properties during the Hindu festival of Ram Navmi.
Most of the violence was reported from the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand and West Bengal on Sunday as the Hindu community celebrated the birthday of the god Ram, one of the chief deities of right-wing Hindu groups in India.
Dozens of videos have been going viral on Indian social media since Sunday, showing processions of Hindu men wearing saffron scarves – and, in some cases, carrying sticks and swords – stopping their motorcycles in Muslim neighbourhoods, playing provocative songs laced with threats of genocide outside homes and mosques, and raising hate slogans.
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