Civilians trapped in eastern city running out of water
Mariupol mayor tells of continuing resistance to Russian occupation
Writing on Telegram, Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol's Ukrainian mayor, said the city "did not accept the occupation".
He claimed two tow trucks and three other large vehicles were set on fire last week in the car park of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
The post also detailed the fatal stabbing of a ministry employee in a crowd awaiting humanitarian aid near the city's metro.
"Retribution is near. Glory to Ukraine!," concluded the post, in a warning to Russian soldiers in the city.
Summary
- Thousands of civilians are trapped in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk with a diminishing supply of water, the UN tells the BBC
- It says an urgent situation is developing in the bunkers beneath the Azot chemical plant - where hundreds of civilians are taking shelter - in the key eastern city
- Russia has pledged to spend the day evacuating civilians holed up in the plant - though it's not clear if it's stopped attacks in the city
- Elsewhere, Nato has said the spike in global food prices is a direct consequence of the war and not sanctions against Russia, as Moscow claims
- Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg also says the alliance will continue to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the EU to strengthen its sanctions package against Russia
Tensions heighten in Taiwan Strait as China acts to extend military operations
Xi Jinping signs trial order allowing ‘military operations other than war’ beyond China’s borders
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has signed legal orders allowing a trial of military operations beyond China’s borders amid heightened tensions over claims by China’s foreign ministry that the Taiwan Strait is Chinese territorial water.
Official state media reports published this week were light on detail but said Xi had signed orders announcing trial outlines on “military operations other than war”. It said the trials would begin on Wednesday.
A subsequent report from the Global Times, a state-backed nationalistic tabloid, said the unpublished outlines would provide a legal basis for China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to “safeguard China’s national sovereignty, security and development interests”. They would also allow military missions around disaster relief, humanitarian aid and peacekeeping, it said.
France burkini ban challenged in country’s top court
France’s top court is set to deliver a ruling on the controversial burkini ban after hearing an appeal by the city of Grenoble to allow the bathing suit in public pools.
Grenoble formally allowed women to wear the full-length swimwear in state pools in May, 10 years after a local ban on the burkini was introduced in several French cities. But not without a grim warning from the interior minister that he would work to block the move.
The decision, said minister Gérald Darmanin, was an “unacceptable community provocation, contrary to our values” and went against French laws on secularism. Darmanin was the minister who said Liverpool fans posed a public disorder threat after last month’s chaos at the Champions League final in Paris.
Plugging methane leaks is a powerful climate fix, so why aren't we doing it?
The oil and gas industry is choking the atmosphere with a heat-trapping gas stronger than CO2 — despite cheap, fast and easy fixes.
There was little to mark the pipe as a threat to the planet: A skinny gray chimney the same color as the clouds, looming lankily above a gas storage facility at an industrial site in northern Italy. It did not appear to be in use.
Then James Turitto took out his camera.
Seen through the lens of the $100,000 (€95,567) infrared device calibrated to pick up planet-heating gases, the pipe was belching a stream of methane into the sky. Turitto, who hunts fugitive emissions for the environmental nonprofit Clean Air Task Force (CATF), has seen hundreds of similar leaks at oil and gas sites across Europe that otherwise go unnoticed. The pipe had already been leaking methane when Turitto visited eight months earlier.
80% of Gaza children suffer depression after 15 years of blockade
Four out of five children in the Gaza Strip suffer from depression, sadness and fear caused by fifteen years of the Israeli blockade on the territory, a report published by Save the Children has found.
The report, entitled “Trapped”, interviewed 488 children and 168 parents and caregivers in the Gaza Strip, following up on similar research that was conducted by the organisation in 2018.
New law gives adult film stars the right to end their contracts
By RYUICHI HISANAGA/ Staff Writer
June 15, 2022 at 18:59 JST
Financial struggles forced one woman to star in more than 10 pornographic films for the first time when she was in her 40s.
She also wanted to “overcome the trauma” as a victim of multiple sexual assaults, she said.
The woman received 1 million yen ($7,400) per film and felt like she was a star on the set, she said. The money, however, did not give her what she had wanted.
A bill to make it easier for people who star in pornographic films and other “adult entertainment” movies to terminate their contracts and protect their privacy and health passed the Diet on June 15 with the approval at an Upper House plenary session.
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