Kaliningrad: Russia warns Lithuania of consequences over rail transit blockade
Russia has warned Lithuania of "serious" consequences after it banned the rail transfer of some goods to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.
Russia "will certainly respond to such hostile actions," senior security official Nikolai Patrushev said.
Lithuania says it is only following the EU sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Kaliningrad - a strategic region where Russia's Baltic Fleet is headquartered - has no border with mainland Russia.
Russian mercenaries accused of deadly attacks on mines on Sudan-CAR border
Dozens of people said to have been killed in attacks allegedly involving Wagner Group fighters
Jason Burke in Khartoum and Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Darfur
Russian mercenaries have mounted a series of bloody attacks on artisanal mines in the lawless border zones between Sudan and Central African Republic (CAR) in an effort to plunder the region’s valuable gold trade, witnesses and experts have said.
Dozens of miners are thought to have died in at least three major attacks this year allegedly involving mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, a private military company that has been linked to the Kremlin by western officials. There are also reports of further attacks on mines in at least six other places across CAR.
Witnesses interviewed in Sudan by the Guardian described “massacres” by fighters they identified as being from Wagner who swept through encampments full of migrant miners and mine workings between the north-eastern town of Am Daga and the frontier over a six-week period.
Saudi Crown Prince’s visit to Turkey aims to put to rest murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Mohammed bin Salman to visit Turkey for first time since murder of Washington Post columnist
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Turkey this week in a controversial visit meant to put to rest the murder of a journalist that strained relations between the two countries for years.
The diplomatic visit to Ankara on Wednesday comes almost four years after Prince Mohammed’s enforcers lured, abducted, murdered and dismembered dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi diplomatic facilities in Istanbul.
How can developing countries confront biopiracy?
Developing countries are increasingly calling on richer nations to share the profits from discoveries based on their rich biodiversity. As talks get underway in Nairobi, DW takes a closer look at the issue of biopiracy.
Looking to nature for inspiration, drug research, genetically modified crops or other products is nothing new — research groups and major corporations do it all the time.
But discoveries based on traditional Indigenous knowledge or the wealth of biodiversity in developing countries can end up being exported and patented without proper credit or compensation, in what's colorfully known as biopiracy.
The practice is rooted in history. Colonizers like Spain, the United Kingdom and other global empires frequently took and profited from the natural resources of the regions they occupied, trading in products like coffee, cotton, tea, pepper and rubber.
Dozens die in custody under El Salvador’s state of exception
Thousands have been arrested since the country suspended certain civil liberties amid a crackdown on gangs.
In the days after 32-year-old Walter Vladimir Sandoval Penate’s March 30 arrest in El Refugio, El Salvador, his mother travelled to the public prosecutor’s office in a desperate search for information. On the fifth day, April 4, a car from a funeral home pulled up behind her as she arrived home.
“The car brought us the news that he had died,” the young man’s father, Saul Sandoval, told Al Jazeera.
Authorities told the family that he had been in the process of being transferred from a jail cell in Ahuachapan to Izalco prison in Sonsonate, but he fainted and died before entering. According to a medical report reviewed by Al Jazeera, the cause of death was “chest trauma”. Photos of the body show deep cuts and bruises on his arms and around his knees.
Victims of Tangshan restaurant attack recovering from injuries, Chinese police say
Updated 1131 GMT (1931 HKT) June 21, 2022
After days of mounting public pressure, Chinese police have finally issued an update on the investigation into a brutal restaurant attack in Tangshan -- but the statement has done little to quell public outrage, or address concerns for the victims.
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